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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 Boreas River (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 Boreas River. 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 Boreas River ...

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 occur.

  • A typical abbreviation for Boreas River: Boreas Riv.
  • While the name of this community is Boreas River, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Boreas River may originally have been Borea's River.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Boreas River might be written as Borea River.

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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Boreas River is located in Essex County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Essex County: Clinton, Franklin, Hamilton, Warren, Washington, Addison (VT) & Chittenden (VT).

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

  • Essex County     (The home county of Boreas River)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Boreas River, with the one closest to Boreas River listed first.
    • Loch Muller
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Loch Muller is located in Essex County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loch Muller
    • Blue Ridge
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Blue Ridge is located in Essex County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Ridge
    • Tahawus
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Newcomb
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Minerva
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Severance
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Schroon Lake
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Saint Huberts
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Saint Huberts is located in Essex County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Huberts
    • North Elba
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • North Elba is located in Essex County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Elba
    • Ironville
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Ironville is located in Essex County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ironville
    • Moriah
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Lake Placid
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Witherbee
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Witherbee is located in Essex County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Witherbee
  • Hamilton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Boreas River, with the one closest to Boreas River listed first.
    • Indian Lake
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Sabael
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Blue Mountain Lake
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Warren County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Boreas River, with the one closest to Boreas River listed first.
    • Adirondack
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Pottersville
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Holcombville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Holcombville is located in Warren County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holcombville
    • Riparius
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Wevertown
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Brant Lake
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Chestertown
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Bakers Mills
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Johnsburg
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Hague
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Riverbank
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Riverbank is located in Warren County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverbank
    • North Bolton
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • North Bolton is located in Warren County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Bolton
    • Silver Bay
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Washington County
  • Addison County (VT)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Boreas River, with the one closest to Boreas River listed first.
    • Chimney Point
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Chimney Point is located in Addison County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chimney Point
    • Palmer Corner
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Palmer Corner is located in Addison County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palmer Corner

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

Cemeteries Near Boreas River ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Boreas River.

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 Boreas River - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Newcomb Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • St. Marys Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Marys Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Marys Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the east of Minerva.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2224507 <4>
  • Federal Flat Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Schroon River Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Pine Ridge Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • North Hudson Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Baroudi Family Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Tyrel Family Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Igerna Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • St. James Catholic Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • St. James Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Fish Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (63 more) ...

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.<5>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Boreas River had a population of 50 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Loch Muller
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Loch Muller is located in Essex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loch Muller
  • Blue Ridge
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Blue Ridge is located in Essex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Ridge
  • Tahawus
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Newcomb
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Minerva
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Olmstedville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Schroon Lake
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • South Schroon
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • South Schroon is located in Essex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Schroon
  • North River
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Igerna
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Igerna is located in Warren County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Igerna
  • Pottersville
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Adirondack
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Boreas River ...

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 53 newspapers that have been published in the area around Boreas River.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Boreas River, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Boreas River.

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 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 Boreas River:

Footnotes ...

<1>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).
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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- Boreas River) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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.
<5>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 Boreas River, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.