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 Stancils Chapel (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 Stancils Chapel. 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.
Name Variations for Stancils Chapel ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.
While the name of this community is Stancils Chapel, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Stancils Chapel may originally have been Stancil's Chapel.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Stancils Chapel might be written as Stancil Chapel.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
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.
Below are the counties that are near Stancils Chapel. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Stancils Chapel:
Johnston County (The home county of Stancils Chapel)
The following are listed by their distance from Stancils Chapel, with the one closest to Stancils Chapel listed first.
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Mapleville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Katesville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
The following are listed by their distance from Stancils Chapel, with the one closest to Stancils Chapel listed first.
Speights Bridge (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Speights Bridge. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Fieldsboro. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
Rogers Crossroads (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Rogers Crossroads. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
Frazier Crossroads (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Frazier Crossroads. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
Gold Valley Crossroads (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Gold Valley Crossroads. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Eagle Rock. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Shotwell. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Saulston. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Stancils Chapel.
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.
If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).
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.<7>
While we didn't find Stancils Chapel in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Stancils Chapel.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Stancils Chapel, with the one closest to Stancils Chapel listed first.
Connor (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Connor have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 31 newspapers that have been published in the area around Stancils Chapel.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Stancils Chapel, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Stancils Chapel.
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 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 Stancils Chapel:
It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
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The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
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An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
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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- Stancils Chapel) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Stancils Chapel. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.6810, Longitude: -78.2099
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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 Stancils Chapel, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.