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 Cape Vincent (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 Cape Vincent. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
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 north 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.
Cape Vincent is located in Jefferson 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 Jefferson County: Lewis, Oswego & Saint Lawrence.
Below are the counties that are near Cape Vincent. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Cape Vincent:
- Jefferson County (The home county of Cape Vincent)
- The following are listed by their distance from Cape Vincent, with the one closest to Cape Vincent listed first.
- Three Mile Bay
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Point Peninsula
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Point Peninsula is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point Peninsula
- Chaumont
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Adams Cove
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Adams Cove is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adams Cove
- Depauville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Clayton
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Pillar Point
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Pillar Point is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pillar Point
- Limerick
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Boultons Beach
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Boultons Beach is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boultons Beach
- Dexter
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Sackets Harbor
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Murray Isle
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Cape Vincent, see our County-by-County Page for Cape Vincent.
Cemeteries Near Cape Vincent ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cape Vincent.
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 Cape Vincent - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Cape Vincent covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Cape Vincent, with the one closest to Cape Vincent listed first.
- Market Street Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Riverside Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Judd Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Wolfe Island United Church Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Fox Creek Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Putman Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Wells Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Trinity Anglican Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- New Sacred Heart RC Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Harder Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Continue List (131 more) ...
- St. Lawrence Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Sand Bay Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Harris Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
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.<3>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Cape Vincent had a population of 1,324 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Cape Vincent had a population of 680 people.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Cape Vincent, with the one closest to Cape Vincent listed first.
- Rosiere
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Rosiere is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosiere
- Three Mile Bay
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Saint Lawrence
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Saint Lawrence is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Lawrence
- Point Peninsula
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Point Peninsula is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point Peninsula
- Chaumont
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Depauville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Pillar Point
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Pillar Point is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pillar Point
- Clayton
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Limerick
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Sackets Harbor
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Dexter
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Stone Mills
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Stone Mills is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone Mills
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- La Fargeville
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Thousand Island Park
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Henderson Harbor
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Cape Vincent. See our List of 1890's Communities around Cape Vincent.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Cape Vincent ...
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 26 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cape Vincent.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Cape Vincent. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Cape Vincent and those printed in the larger area surrounding Cape Vincent.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 18 miles [29 km]<4> of Cape Vincent.
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 websites either 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 Cape Vincent:
- Websites specific to New York
- Pages specific to Jefferson County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for New York
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> | 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 Cape Vincent, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Cape Vincent) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |