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 Holly View Forest - Highland Park (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 Holly View Forest - Highland Park. 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 doctors 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.
Holly View Forest - Highland Park is located in Surry County.
Below are the counties that are near Holly View Forest - Highland Park. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Holly View Forest - Highland Park:
Surry County (The home county of Holly View Forest - Highland Park)
The following are listed by their distance from Holly View Forest - Highland Park, with the one closest to Holly View Forest - Highland Park listed first.
The following are listed by their distance from Holly View Forest - Highland Park, with the one closest to Holly View Forest - Highland Park listed first.
The following are listed by their distance from Holly View Forest - Highland Park, with the one closest to Holly View Forest - Highland Park listed first.
Heritage Village (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
The following are listed by their distance from Holly View Forest - Highland Park, with the one closest to Holly View Forest - Highland Park listed first.
The following are listed by their distance from Holly View Forest - Highland Park, with the one closest to Holly View Forest - Highland Park listed first.
Pleasant Hill (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
The following are listed by their distance from Holly View Forest - Highland Park, with the one closest to Holly View Forest - Highland Park listed first.
The following are listed by their distance from Holly View Forest - Highland Park, with the one closest to Holly View Forest - Highland Park listed first.
The following are listed by their distance from Holly View Forest - Highland Park, with the one closest to Holly View Forest - Highland Park listed first.
The following are listed by their distance from Holly View Forest - Highland Park, with the one closest to Holly View Forest - Highland Park listed first.
Cemeteries Near Holly View Forest - Highland Park ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Holly View Forest - Highland Park.
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 Holly View Forest - Highland Park - one of the links might be able to help.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Holly View Forest - Highland Park, with the one closest to Holly View Forest - Highland Park listed first.
White Plains Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
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.<4>
While we didn't find Holly View Forest - Highland Park in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Holly View Forest - Highland Park.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Holly View Forest - Highland Park, with the one closest to Holly View Forest - Highland Park listed first.
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 26 newspapers that have been published in the area around Holly View Forest - Highland Park.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Holly View Forest - Highland Park, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Holly View Forest - Highland Park.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Holly View Forest - Highland Park:
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Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Holly View Forest - Highland Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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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.
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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 Holly View Forest - Highland Park, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.