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 Eben (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 Eben. 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 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.
Eben is located in Saint Lawrence 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 Saint Lawrence County: Franklin, Hamilton, Herkimer, Jefferson & Lewis.
Below are the counties that are near Eben. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Eben:
- Saint Lawrence County (The home county of Eben)
- The following are listed by their distance from Eben, with the one closest to Eben listed first.
- Slab City
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Slab City is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slab City
- Coney Island
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Coney Island is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coney Island
- Hannawa Falls
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- West Parishville
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- West Parishville is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Parishville
- Potsdam
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Canton
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Canton is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 6,482 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Canton <1>
- Willisville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Willisville is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willisville
- Sisson
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Sisson is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sisson
- Pierrepont
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Pierrepont is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierrepont
- Parishville Center
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Parishville Center is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parishville Center
- Madrid Springs
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Madrid Springs is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madrid Springs
- Colton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Norwood
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Franklin County
- The following are listed by their distance from Eben, with the one closest to Eben listed first.
- Saint Regis Falls
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Alburg
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Alburg is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alburg
- Moira
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- East Dickinson
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- East Dickinson is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Dickinson
- Brushton
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Hogansburg
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Eben, see our County-by-County Page for Eben.
Cemeteries Near Eben ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Eben.
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 Eben - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Eben covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Eben, with the one closest to Eben listed first.
- South Potsdam Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Leet Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Bridge Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- White Church Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- St. Marys Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Riverside Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Parmeter Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Bayside Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- West Potsdam Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- St. Marys Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Garfield Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garfield Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Garfield Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located less than 2 miles<3> to the southeast of Potsdam.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #64617 <2>
- Old St. Marys Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old St. Marys Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Old St. Marys Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located less than 2 miles<3> to the southeast of Potsdam.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #65537 <2>
- Continue List (155 more) ...
- St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- St. Marys Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Olin Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
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>
While we didn't find Eben in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Eben.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Eben, with the one closest to Eben listed first.
- Crary Mills
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Crary Mills is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crary Mills
- West Potsdam
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- West Potsdam is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Potsdam
- Hannawa Falls
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Canton
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Canton is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 6,482 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Canton <1>
- West Parishville
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- West Parishville is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Parishville
- Potsdam
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Pierrepont
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Pierrepont is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierrepont
- Sisson
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Sisson is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sisson
- Bucks Bridge
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Bucks Bridge is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucks Bridge
- Morley
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Morley is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morley
- Colton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Madrid Springs
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Madrid Springs is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madrid Springs
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Parishville Center
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Parishville Center is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parishville Center
- North Russell
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- North Russell is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Russell
- West Pierrepont
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- West Pierrepont is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Pierrepont
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Eben. See our List of 1890's Communities around Eben.
Newspapers Published in Eben ...
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 Eben.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Eben, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Eben.
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 Eben:
- Websites specific to New York
- Pages specific to Saint Lawrence 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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Eben) 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 Eben, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |