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 Fishers Landing (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 Fishers Landing. 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.
Name Variations for Fishers Landing ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.
- A typical abbreviation for Fishers Landing: Fishers Lndg. (or less commonly used: Fishers Lndng.)
- While the name of this community is Fishers Landing, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Fishers Landing may originally have been Fisher's Landing.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Fishers Landing might be written as Fisher Landing.
You might be interested in other communities that are also named Fishers Landing. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Fishers Landing.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
Cemeteries Near Fishers Landing ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fishers Landing.
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 Fishers Landing - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Fishers Landing covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Fishers Landing, with the one closest to Fishers Landing listed first.
- Old Settlers Graves
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Prospect Hill Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- St. Mary's RC Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Friends Burying Ground
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- New Town Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Town Cemetery
- The New Town Cemetery has also been known as:
- Newtown Cemetery
- Old North Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Old Town Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- New Town Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Town Cemetery
- The New Town Cemetery has also been known as:
- Newtown Cemetery
- Old South Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2174319 <2>
- African Baptist Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Polpis Burying Ground
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- New Westside Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Westside Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Continue List (74 more) ...
- Town Hill Burying Ground
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Oak Grove Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Sacred Heart Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
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.<3>
While we didn't find Fishers Landing in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Fishers Landing.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Fishers Landing, with the one closest to Fishers Landing listed first.
- Nantucket
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Nantucket is located in Nantucket County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nantucket
- Population from the 2020 Census: 11,376 people
- Siasconset
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Siasconset is located in Nantucket County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siasconset
- Katama
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Katama is located in Dukes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Katama
- Edgartown
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Edgartown is located in Dukes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgartown
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,383 people
- Oak Bluffs
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Oak Bluffs is located in Dukes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Bluffs
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,696 people
- Vineyard Highlands
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Vineyard Highlands is located in Dukes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vineyard Highlands
- Hyannis Port
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Hyannis Port is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hyannis Port
- Wianno
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Wianno is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wianno
- Vineyard Haven
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Vineyard Haven is located in Dukes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vineyard Haven
- West Yarmouth
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- West Yarmouth is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Yarmouth
- South Yarmouth
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- South Yarmouth is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Yarmouth
- Hyannis
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Hyannis is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hyannis
- Continue List (18 more) ...
- Craigville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Craigville is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craigville
- Osterville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Osterville is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osterville
- West Harwich
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- West Harwich is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Harwich
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Fishers Landing. See our List of 1890's Communities around Fishers Landing.
Newspapers Published in Fishers Landing ...
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 49 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fishers Landing.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fishers Landing, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Fishers Landing.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Fishers Landing:
- Websites specific to Massachusetts
- Pages specific to Nantucket County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Barnstable County
- Dukes County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Massachusetts
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <2> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
| <3> | 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 Fishers Landing, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Fishers Landing) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |