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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 Goodnow Hill (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 Goodnow Hill. 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.

Cemeteries Near Goodnow Hill ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Goodnow Hill.

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 Goodnow Hill - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Burgan Family Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Gontrum Family Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • St. Vincents Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Har Sinai Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Laurel Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Baltimore Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Bohemian Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Mikro Kodesh Beth Israel Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • United Hebrew Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Beth Jacob Hebrrew Congregation Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beth Jacob Hebrrew Congregation Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Beth Jacob Hebrrew Congregation Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Rosedale.
    • The Beth Jacob Hebrrew Congregation Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Agudath Israel of Baltimore Cemetery
    • Beth Jacob Anshe Veshear Congregation Cemetery
    • Beth Jacob Congregation Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1887055 <1>
  • B'nai Israel Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for B'nai Israel Cemetery
    • The B'nai Israel Cemetery has also been known as:
    • B'nai Israel Congregation Cemetery
    • Bnai Israel Cemetery
    • Mishkon Israel Congregation Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80791 <1>
  • Continue List   (431 more) ...
    • Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Baltimore.
      • The Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery has also been known as:
      • German Lutheran Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80992 <1>
    • Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Friends Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)

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 Goodnow Hill in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Goodnow Hill.

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

  • Gardenville
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Gardenville is located in Baltimore City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardenville
  • Orangeville
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Orangeville is located in Baltimore City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orangeville
  • Rosedale
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Lauraville
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Lauraville is located in Baltimore City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lauraville
  • Golden Ring
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Golden Ring is located in Baltimore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Ring
  • Kenwood
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Kenwood is located in Baltimore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenwood
  • Canton
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Canton is located in Baltimore City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canton
  • Stemmers Run
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Stemmers Run is located in Baltimore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stemmers Run
  • Rossville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Rossville is located in Baltimore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rossville
  • Fullerton
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Fullerton is located in Baltimore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fullerton
  • Parkville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Guilford
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Guilford is located in Baltimore City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guilford
  • Continue List   (19 more) ...
    • Waverly
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Waverly is located in Baltimore City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waverly
    • Baltimore
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Colgate Creek
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Colgate Creek is located in Baltimore City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colgate Creek

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

Newspapers Published in Goodnow Hill ...

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 563 newspapers that have been published in the area around Goodnow Hill.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Goodnow Hill, 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 Goodnow Hill.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we 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 Goodnow Hill:

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 Goodnow Hill, 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- Goodnow Hill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.