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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 Nanjemoy (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 Nanjemoy. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

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 east contained birth and death records; the county to the south 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.

Nanjemoy is located in Charles 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 Charles County: Calvert, Prince George's, Saint Mary's, Fairfax (VA), King George (VA), Prince William (VA), Stafford (VA) & Westmoreland (VA).

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

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

Cemeteries Near Nanjemoy ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Nanjemoy.

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 Nanjemoy - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Emory Chapel Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Oak Grove Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Durham Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • St. Ignatius of Loyola Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Zion Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Alexandria Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Chicamuxen Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Smith Chapel Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Pisgah Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Pleasant Grove Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Marbury Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Park Hill Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
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    • Triangle Public Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Andrew Chapel Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • St. Pauls 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.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Nanjemoy had a population of 40 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Grayton
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Grayton is located in Charles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grayton
  • Doncaster
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Riverside
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Riverside is located in Charles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
  • Hill Top
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Hill Top is located in Charles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill Top
  • Quantico
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Quantico is located in Prince William County (VA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quantico
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 558 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Quantico <1>
  • Pisgah
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Pisgah is located in Charles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pisgah
  • Cherry Hill
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Cherry Hill is located in Prince William County (VA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Hill
  • McConchie
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Ambar
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Hampstead
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Dumfries
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Osso
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Osso is located in King George County (VA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osso
  • Continue List   (19 more) ...
    • Owens
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Owens is located in King George County (VA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owens
    • Glymont
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Glymont is located in Charles County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glymont
    • Weedonville
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)

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

Newspapers Published in Nanjemoy ...

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 8 newspapers that have been published in the area around Nanjemoy.

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

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 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 Nanjemoy:

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>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 Nanjemoy, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 drawn from Point A (ie- Nanjemoy) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.