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Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Netty (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Netty. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Netty is located in Magoffin County.

To see how the shape of Kentucky's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Magoffin County: Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Morgan & Wolfe.

Below are the counties that are near Netty. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Netty:

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Netty, see our County-by-County Page for Netty.

Cemeteries Near Netty ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Netty.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Netty - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Netty covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Netty, with the one closest to Netty listed first.

  • William Big Bill Patriotic Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Clay Arnett Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Elam Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Burton Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Rudd Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Fleming Arnett Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Cockran Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Alex & Mary Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Walters Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Adams Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Dun Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Wile Reed Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (774 more) ...

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<2>

While we didn't find Netty in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Netty.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Netty, with the one closest to Netty listed first.

  • Hager
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Hager is located in Magoffin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hager
  • Lykins
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Lykins is located in Magoffin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lykins
  • Caney
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Caney is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caney
  • Lee City
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Lee City is located in Wolfe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee City
  • Sellars
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Rock Lick
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Hendricks
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Bloomington
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Bloomington is located in Magoffin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomington
  • White Oak
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • White Oak is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Oak
  • Gillmore
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Gillmore is located in Wolfe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gillmore
  • Taulbee
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Lickburg
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Lickburg is located in Magoffin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lickburg
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Daysboro
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Daysboro is located in Wolfe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daysboro
    • Paxton
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Paxton is located in Breathitt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paxton
    • Rousseau
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Rousseau is located in Breathitt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rousseau

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Netty. See our List of 1890's Communities around Netty.

Newspapers Published in Netty ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 13 newspapers that have been published in the area around Netty.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Netty, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Netty.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Netty:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Netty, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Netty) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.