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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 Rosebloom (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 Rosebloom. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.

Rosebloom is located in Tallahatchie County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Tallahatchie County: Coahoma, Grenada, Leflore, Panola, Quitman, Sunflower & Yalobusha.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Rosebloom ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rosebloom.

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

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

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

  • Ashland Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Pea Ridge Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Poa Ridge Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Baker Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • St. Pauls Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Stonefield Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • McSwine Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Baker Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Cole Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Harris Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • New Hope Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Chestnut Grove Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (323 more) ...
    • Corinth Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Bethel Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jones Chapel Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 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 in 1895, Rosebloom had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Murphreesboro ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Murphreesboro is located in Tallahatchie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murphreesboro
  • Cascilla
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Cascilla is located in Tallahatchie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cascilla
  • Oxberry
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Oxberry is located in Grenada County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxberry
  • Paynes
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Leverett
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Parsons
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Parsons is located in Grenada County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parsons
  • Grenada
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Charleston
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Crevi ‑ Historic
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Crevi is located in Tallahatchie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crevi
  • Oakland
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Leflore
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Leflore is located in Grenada County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leflore
  • Teasdale
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Teasdale is located in Tallahatchie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teasdale
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We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Rosebloom. See our List of 1890's Communities around Rosebloom.

Newspapers Published in Rosebloom ...

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 72 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rosebloom.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rosebloom, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Rosebloom.

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 Rosebloom:

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