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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 East New Market (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 East New Market. 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 East New Market ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for East New Market: E. New Market

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.

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 and doctors 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.

East New Market is located in Dorchester County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dorchester County: Sussex (DE), Caroline, Somerset, Talbot & Wicomico.

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

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

Cemeteries Near East New Market ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of East New Market.

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 East New Market - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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.<5>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, East New Market had a post office and railroad service. In 2020, East New Market had a population of 374 people.

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

  • Secretary
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Linkwood
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Ennalls ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Ennalls is located in Dorchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ennalls
  • Hurlock
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Choptank
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Choptank is located in Caroline County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Choptank
  • Salem
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Rhodesdale
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Beulah
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Beulah is located in Dorchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beulah
  • Williamsburg
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Thompson
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Thompson is located in Dorchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompson
  • Brookview
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Brookview is located in Dorchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookview
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 58 people
  • Eldorado
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Eldorado is located in Dorchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eldorado
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 57 people
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in East New Market ...

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 East New Market.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of East New Market, there are papers which were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for East New Market.

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 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 East New Market:

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>To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Hurlock and Waddells Corner. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location.
<3>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- East New Market) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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.
<5>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 East New Market, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.