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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 Camby (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 Camby. 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 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.

Camby is located in Dutchess 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 Dutchess County: Fairfield (CT), Litchfield (CT), Berkshire (MA), Columbia, Orange, Putnam & Ulster.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Camby ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Camby.

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

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

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

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.<4>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Camby had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Chestnut Ridge
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Chestnut Ridge is located in Dutchess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut Ridge
  • North Clove
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Verbank
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • South Millbrook
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • South Millbrook is located in Dutchess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Millbrook
  • Littlerest
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Littlerest is located in Dutchess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littlerest
  • Verbank Village
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Verbank Village is located in Dutchess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verbank Village
  • Moores Mill
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Moores Mill is located in Dutchess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moores Mill
  • Clove
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Millbrook
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Dover Furnace
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Dover Furnace is located in Dutchess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dover Furnace
  • Dover Plains
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Mabbettsville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (21 more) ...
    • Billings
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Clove Valley
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Clove Valley is located in Dutchess County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clove Valley
    • Washington Hollow
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Washington Hollow is located in Dutchess County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washington Hollow

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

Newspapers Published in Camby ...

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 139 newspapers that have been published in the area around Camby.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Camby, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Camby.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Camby:

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>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.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Camby) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Camby, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.