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 Wood End (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 Wood End. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
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 west contained birth and death records; the county to the north 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.
Wood End is located in Barnstable County.
To see how the shape of Massachusetts' counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
Below are the counties that are near Wood End. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Wood End:
- Barnstable County (The home county of Wood End)
- The following are listed by their distance from Wood End, with the one closest to Wood End listed first.
- Provincetown
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Provincetown is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Provincetown
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,957 people
- North Truro
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- North Truro is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Truro
- Pond Village
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Pond Village is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pond Village
- Truro
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Truro is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truro
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,007 people
- South Truro
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- South Truro is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Truro
- Wellfleet
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Wellfleet is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellfleet
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,728 people
- South Wellfleet
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- South Wellfleet is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Wellfleet
- North Eastham
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- North Eastham is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Eastham
- Eastham
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Eastham is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastham
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,902 people
- Thumpertown Beach
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Thumpertown Beach is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thumpertown Beach
- Brewster
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Brewster is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brewster
- Population from the 2020 Census: 9,772 people
- Orleans
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Orleans is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orleans
- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,802 people
- Dennis
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Dennis is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dennis
- Population from the 2020 Census: 13,890 people
- Plymouth County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wood End, with the one closest to Wood End listed first.
- White Horse Beach
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- White Horse Beach is located in Plymouth County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Horse Beach
- Manomet
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Manomet is located in Plymouth County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manomet
- Brant Rock
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Brant Rock is located in Plymouth County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brant Rock
- Chiltonville
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Chiltonville is located in Plymouth County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chiltonville
- Green Harbor
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Green Harbor is located in Plymouth County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Harbor
- Duxbury
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Duxbury is located in Plymouth County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duxbury
- Population from the 2020 Census: 15,932 people
- Green Harbor - Cedar Crest
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Ocean Bluff
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Ocean Bluff is located in Plymouth County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocean Bluff
- Plymouth
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Plymouth is located in Plymouth County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plymouth
- Population from the 2020 Census: 62,654 people
- North Plymouth
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- North Plymouth is located in Plymouth County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Plymouth
- South Duxbury
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- South Duxbury is located in Plymouth County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Duxbury
- Humarock
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Humarock is located in Plymouth County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humarock
- Marshfield
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Marshfield is located in Plymouth County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 26,037 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Wood End, see our County-by-County Page for Wood End.
Cemeteries Near Wood End ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wood End.
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 Wood End - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Wood End covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Wood End, with the one closest to Wood End listed first.
- Town Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Provincetown Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Gifford Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Hamilton Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- St. Peters Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Winthrop Street Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Old North Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Sacred Heart Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Pine Grove Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Snow Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Hill of Churches Hills of Storms Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Continue List (130 more) ...
- Chequessett Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chequessett Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Chequessett Cemetery is located in Wellfleet.
- The Chequessett Cemetery has also been known as:
- Chequessett Neck Cemetery
- Early Meeting House Cemetery
- First Meeting House Cemetery
- Taylor Hill Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2230356 <1>
- Oakdale Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Pleasant Hill / Oakdale Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
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 Wood End in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Wood End.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Wood End, with the one closest to Wood End listed first.
- Provincetown
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Provincetown is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Provincetown
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,957 people
- North Truro
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- North Truro is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Truro
- Truro Station ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Truro Station is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truro Station
- South Truro
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- South Truro is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Truro
- Truro
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Truro is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truro
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,007 people
- Wellfleet
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Wellfleet is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellfleet
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,728 people
- South Wellfleet
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- South Wellfleet is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Wellfleet
- North Eastham
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- North Eastham is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Eastham
- Eastham
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Eastham is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastham
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,902 people
- Brewster
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Brewster is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brewster
- Population from the 2020 Census: 9,772 people
- East Brewster
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- East Brewster is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Brewster
- Orleans
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Orleans is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orleans
- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,802 people
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Dennis
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Dennis is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dennis
- Population from the 2020 Census: 13,890 people
- East Dennis
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- East Dennis is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Dennis
- West Brewster
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- West Brewster is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Brewster
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Wood End. See our List of 1890's Communities around Wood End.
Newspapers Published in Wood End ...
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 50 newspapers that have been published in the area around Wood End.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Wood End, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Wood End.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Wood End:
- Websites specific to Massachusetts
- Pages specific to Barnstable County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Massachusetts
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | The Massachusetts Historical Commission (MHC) has created and maintains a database of historic properties that is called MACRIS (for the Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System). More information about the MHC and MACRIS can be found on their website: mhc-macris.net.
When visiting the MACRIS website, you might encounter their page requiring the 'Acceptance of Terms'. With your acceptance, you'll be transfered to the desired page.
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| <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 Wood End, 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- Wood End) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |