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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 Amawalk (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 Amawalk. 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 Amawalk ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Amawalk.

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

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

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

  • Amawalk Hill Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Todd Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Ackerman Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Lawson Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Mahopac Falls Baptist Churchyard Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Presbyterian Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Ivandell Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • St. Josephs Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Warren Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Beverly Hills Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • King David Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Oakwood Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
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    • St. Francis Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Union Valley Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Methodist Graveyard
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)

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 Amawalk had a population of 102 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service.

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

  • Yorktown Heights
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Yorktown
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Yorktown is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yorktown
  • Jefferson Valley
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Shrub Oak
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Kitchawan
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Kitchawan is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kitchawan
  • Katonah
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Goldens Bridge
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Somers
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Baldwin Place
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Adams Corners
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Adams Corners is located in Putnam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adams Corners
  • Mount Kisco
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Purdys
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
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    • Croton Falls
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Putnam Valley
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Tompkins Corners
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Tompkins Corners is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tompkins Corners

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

Newspapers Published in Amawalk ...

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 110 newspapers that have been published in the area around Amawalk.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Amawalk, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Amawalk.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Amawalk:

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