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 East Greenbush (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 East Greenbush. 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 East Greenbush ...
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.
Another variation: East Green Bush.
A typical abbreviation for East Greenbush: E. Greenbush
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 hospitals and doctors 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.
Below are the counties that are near East Greenbush. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to East Greenbush:
Rensselaer County (The home county of East Greenbush)
The following are listed by their distance from East Greenbush, with the one closest to East Greenbush listed first.
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Defreestville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Normansville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for West Albany. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
The following are listed by their distance from East Greenbush, with the one closest to East Greenbush listed first.
North Chatham (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for North Chatham. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Riders Mills (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Riders Mills. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Chatham Center. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
New Britain ‑ Historic (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for New Britain. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for New Concord. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Cairo Junction (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Cairo Junction. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Groom Corners. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Willow Glen. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
East Glenville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for East Glenville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Center Cambridge (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Center Cambridge. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Center White Creek (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Center White Creek. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Coltsville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Rockdale Mills (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Rockdale Mills. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of East Greenbush.
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).
If not found below, our Cemetery List for East Greenbush covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from East Greenbush, with the one closest to East Greenbush listed first.
Greenbush Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rensselaer Rural Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Beth Emeth Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Westervelt Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
To give a relative sense of its location, the Westervelt Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<6> to the northeast of Beckers Corners.
To give a relative sense of its location, the Our Lady Help of Christians Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Bethlehem Center.
The Our Lady Help of Christians Cemetery has also been known as:
To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Matthew Lutheran Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of Bethlehem Center.
The St. Matthew Lutheran Cemetery has also been known as:
To give a relative sense of its location, the Elmwood Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located less than 2 miles<6> to the north of Beckers Corners.
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Clarks Chapel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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.<7>
While we didn't find East Greenbush in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of East Greenbush.
These communities are listed based on their distance from East Greenbush, with the one closest to East Greenbush listed first.
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Defreestville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Normansville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
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 171 newspapers that have been published in the area around East Greenbush.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of East Greenbush. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of East Greenbush and those printed in the larger area surrounding East Greenbush.
An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<6> of East Greenbush.
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 East Greenbush:
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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If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database.
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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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Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- East Greenbush) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in East Greenbush. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.5909, Longitude: -73.7018 In this case, the coordinates for East Greenbush have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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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 East Greenbush, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.