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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 Ryan (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 Ryan. 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 hospitals 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.

Ryan is located in Fleming 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 Fleming County: Bath, Lewis, Mason, Nicholas, Robertson & Rowan.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Ryan ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Ryan.

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 Ryan - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Muses Mills Church Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Drake Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Maddox - Hamm Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Wyatt Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Pt. Pleasant Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Mullen Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Anderson Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Anderson Family Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Whisman Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Whisman Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Williams Cemetery Two
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Buckner Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
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    • Henderson Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Humphries Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Sardis Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Ryan had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Muses Mills
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Plummers Landing
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Petersville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Petersville is located in Lewis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petersville
  • Crum
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Crum is located in Lewis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crum
  • Triplett
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Triplett is located in Rowan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Triplett
  • Wallingford
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Glen Springs
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Glen Springs is located in Lewis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Springs
  • Burtonville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Foxport
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Hillsboro
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Poplar Plains
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Poplar Plains is located in Fleming County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar Plains
  • Gates
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...
    • Mount Carmel
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Mount Carmel is located in Fleming County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Carmel
    • Sunset
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Rodburn
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Rodburn is located in Rowan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rodburn

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

Newspapers Published in Ryan ...

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 38 newspapers that have been published in the area around Ryan.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Ryan, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Ryan.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Ryan:

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 Ryan, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Ryan) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.