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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 Marina Villa (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 Marina Villa. 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 Marina Villa ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Marina Villa.

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 Marina Villa - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • St. Matthew Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Concordia Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Holy Family Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Old St. Marcus Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • St. Marcus Cemetery (Old)
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Marcus Cemetery (Old)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Marcus Cemetery (Old) is a large cemetery that is located in Saint Louis.
    • The St. Marcus Cemetery (Old) has also been known as:
    • St. Marcus Commemorative Park
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #30670 <1>
  • St.s Peter & Paul Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St.s Peter & Paul Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the St.s Peter & Paul Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Saint Louis.
    • The St.s Peter & Paul Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Old St.s Peter and Paul Cemetery
    • St.s Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2261610 <1>
  • Gatewood Gardens Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gatewood Gardens Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Gatewood Gardens Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Saint Louis.
    • The Gatewood Gardens Cemetery has also been known as:
    • New Picker Cemetery
    • St. Louis Memorial Gardens
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #958964 <1>
  • New St. Marcus Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • St. Marcus Cemetery (New)
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • St. Joseph Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Lakewood Park Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Our Redeemer Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
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    • New Mt. Sinai Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Western Lutheran Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Mt. Olive Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)

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

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

  • Carondelet
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Carondelet is located in Saint Louis City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carondelet
  • Cahokia
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Cahokia is located in Saint Clair County (IL)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cahokia
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,742 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cahokia <3>
  • Saint Louis
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • East Carondelet
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Tower Grove
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Tower Grove is located in Saint Louis City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tower Grove
  • Clifton Heights
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Clifton Heights is located in Saint Louis City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifton Heights
  • Vulcan
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Vulcan is located in Saint Clair County (IL)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vulcan
  • Falling Spring
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Falling Spring is located in Saint Clair County (IL)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falling Spring
  • Cheltenham
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Cheltenham is located in Saint Louis City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheltenham
  • Gratiot
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Gratiot is located in Saint Louis City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gratiot
  • Benton
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Benton is located in Saint Louis City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benton
  • Ivory
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Ivory is located in Saint Louis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivory
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...
    • Tillman
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Tillman is located in Saint Clair County (IL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tillman
    • Centreville
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Centreville is located in Saint Clair County (IL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centreville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,844 people
    • East Saint Louis
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Marina Villa ...

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 81 newspapers that have been published in the area around Marina Villa.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Marina Villa, there are papers which were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Marina Villa.

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 Marina Villa:

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 Marina Villa, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Marina Villa) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.