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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 Armistead Gardens (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 Armistead Gardens. 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 Armistead Gardens ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Armistead Gardens: Armistead Gdns. (or less commonly used: Armistead Gardns., Armistead Grdens. or Armistead Grdns.)

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 Armistead Gardens ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Armistead Gardens.

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 Armistead Gardens - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Bohemian Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Mikro Kodesh Beth Israel Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Hebrew Friendship Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Evangelist Lutheran Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • St. Paul Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Mt. Carmel Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • St. Martha Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Swartz Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Oheb Shalom Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • St. Stanislaus Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Hebrew Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Pussville Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (426 more) ...
    • Oak Lawn Cemetery
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Lawn Cemetery
      • The Oak Lawn Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Oaklawn Cemetery
    • Har Sinai Cemetery
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Laurel Cemetery
      (Less than 2 miles 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.<2>

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

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

  • Orangeville
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Orangeville is located in Baltimore City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orangeville
  • Canton
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Canton is located in Baltimore City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canton
  • Gardenville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Gardenville is located in Baltimore City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardenville
  • Colgate Creek
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Colgate Creek is located in Baltimore City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colgate Creek
  • Rosedale
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Golden Ring
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Golden Ring is located in Baltimore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Ring
  • Kenwood
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Kenwood is located in Baltimore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenwood
  • Waverly
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Waverly is located in Baltimore City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waverly
  • Lauraville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Lauraville is located in Baltimore City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lauraville
  • Baltimore
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Turner
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Turner is located in Baltimore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turner
  • North Point
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • North Point is located in Baltimore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Point
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Stemmers Run
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Stemmers Run is located in Baltimore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stemmers Run
    • Rossville
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Rossville is located in Baltimore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rossville
    • Guilford
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Guilford is located in Baltimore City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guilford

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

Newspapers Published in Armistead Gardens ...

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 550 newspapers that have been published in the area around Armistead Gardens.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Armistead Gardens, there are papers which were published within 5 miles [8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Armistead Gardens.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Armistead Gardens:

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>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 Armistead Gardens, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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- Armistead Gardens) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.