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 Edgewater (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 Edgewater. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.
Edgewater is located in Cayuga 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 Cayuga County: Cortland, Onondaga, Oswego, Seneca, Tompkins & Wayne.
Below are the counties that are near Edgewater. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Edgewater:
- Cayuga County (The home county of Edgewater)
- The following are listed by their distance from Edgewater, with the one closest to Edgewater listed first.
- Cascade
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Cascade is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cascade
- Omro
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Omro is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omro
- Austin
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Austin is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Austin
- Moravia
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Kelloggsville
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Kelloggsville is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelloggsville
- Niles
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Niles is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Niles
- Montville
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Montville is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montville
- New Hope
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- New Hope is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Hope
- Locke
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Poplar Ridge
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Scipioville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Scipioville is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scipioville
- Sherwood
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Sherwood is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherwood
- Dresserville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Dresserville is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dresserville
- Cortland County
- The following are listed by their distance from Edgewater, with the one closest to Edgewater listed first.
- Scott
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Scott is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott
- East Scott
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- East Scott is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Scott
- Little York
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Little York is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little York
- Pratt Corners
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Pratt Corners is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pratt Corners
- Preble
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Slab City
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Slab City is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slab City
- Homer
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Cummings Crossing
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Cummings Crossing is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cummings Crossing
- Munsons Corners
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Munsons Corners is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Munsons Corners
- Cortland
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- East River
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- East River is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East River
- East Homer
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- East Homer is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Homer
- McGraw
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Madison County
- The following are listed by their distance from Edgewater, with the one closest to Edgewater listed first.
- DeRuyter
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- DeRuyter is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for DeRuyter
- Population from the 2020 Census: 518 people
- Puckerville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Puckerville is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Puckerville
- Union
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Union is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
- Onondaga County
- The following are listed by their distance from Edgewater, with the one closest to Edgewater listed first.
- Mandana
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Mandana is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mandana
- Spafford
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Spafford is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spafford
- Thorn Hill
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Thorn Hill is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorn Hill
- Skaneateles
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Amber
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Amber is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amber
- Rose Hill
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Rose Hill is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Hill
- Otisco Valley
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Otisco Valley is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otisco Valley
- Mottville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Otisco
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Otisco is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otisco
- Marcellus
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Assembly Park
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Assembly Park is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Assembly Park
- Marcellus Falls
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Marcellus Falls is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marcellus Falls
- Elbridge
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Ontario County
- The following are listed by their distance from Edgewater, with the one closest to Edgewater listed first.
- Billsboro
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Billsboro is located in Ontario County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Billsboro
- Dobbins Corner
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Dobbins Corner is located in Ontario County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dobbins Corner
- Geneva
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- West Junius
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- West Junius is located in Ontario County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Junius
- Thompson
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Thompson is located in Ontario County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompson
- Hall
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Schuyler County
- The following are listed by their distance from Edgewater, with the one closest to Edgewater listed first.
- Searsburg
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Searsburg is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Searsburg
- Perry City
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Mecklenburg
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Logan
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Logan is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan
- Hector
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Cayutaville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Cayutaville is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cayutaville
- Bennettsburg
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Bennettsburg is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennettsburg
- Burdett
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Seneca County
- The following are listed by their distance from Edgewater, with the one closest to Edgewater listed first.
- Kidders
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Kidders is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kidders
- Canoga
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Canoga is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canoga
- East Varick
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- East Varick is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Varick
- Kuneytown
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Kuneytown is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kuneytown
- Interlaken
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Interlaken is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Interlaken
- Population from the 2020 Census: 599 people
- Former names for Interlaken:
- Farmer Village
- Farmer
- Farmerville
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Interlaken <1>
- Romulus
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Seneca Falls
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Ovid
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Lodi
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Willard
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Waterloo
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Tyre
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Tyre is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyre
- Border City
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Border City is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Border City
- Tompkins County
- The following are listed by their distance from Edgewater, with the one closest to Edgewater listed first.
- North Lansing
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- North Lansing is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lansing
- West Groton
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- West Groton is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Groton
- Lake Ridge
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Lake Ridge is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Ridge
- East Lansing
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- East Lansing is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Lansing
- Groton
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Groton City
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Groton City is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Groton City
- Myers
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Myers is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myers
- Peruville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Peruville is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peruville
- Willow Creek
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Willow Creek is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Creek
- McLean
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Taughannock Falls
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Taughannock Falls is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taughannock Falls
- Freeville
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Trumansburg
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Wayne County
- The following are listed by their distance from Edgewater, with the one closest to Edgewater listed first.
- South Butler
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- South Butler is located in Wayne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Butler
- Clyde
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Yates County
- The following are listed by their distance from Edgewater, with the one closest to Edgewater listed first.
- Dresden
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Angus
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Angus is located in Yates County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angus
- Himrod
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Bellona
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Seneca Mills
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Seneca Mills is located in Yates County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seneca Mills
- Glenora
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Glenora is located in Yates County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenora
- Benton Center
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Benton Center is located in Yates County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benton Center
- Dundee
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Penn Yan
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Edgewater, see our County-by-County Page for Edgewater.
Cemeteries Near Edgewater ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Edgewater.
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 Edgewater - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Edgewater covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Edgewater, with the one closest to Edgewater listed first.
- Humphrey Howland Burial
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Hewitt Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- West Niles Rural Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Stewart Corners Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Babcock Family Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- St. Bernard Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- St. Bernard's Old Catholic Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Venice Center Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Old Quaker Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Twelve Corners Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Devine Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Burch Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (488 more) ...
- Cornwall Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Fordyce Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Scipio Rural Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 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.<2>
While we didn't find Edgewater in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Edgewater.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Edgewater, with the one closest to Edgewater listed first.
- Cascade
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Cascade is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cascade
- Omro
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Omro is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omro
- Ensenore
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Ensenore is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ensenore
- Austin
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Austin is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Austin
- Venice Center
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Venice Center is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Venice Center
- Moravia
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- East Venice
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- East Venice is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Venice
- Kelloggsville
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Kelloggsville is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelloggsville
- Niles
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Niles is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Niles
- Merrifield
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Merrifield is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrifield
- Owasco
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Owasco is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owasco
- Poplar Ridge
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Genoa
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Locke
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- New Hope
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- New Hope is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Hope
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Edgewater. See our List of 1890's Communities around Edgewater.
Newspapers Published in Edgewater ...
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 104 newspapers that have been published in the area around Edgewater.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Edgewater, 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 Edgewater.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful 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 Edgewater:
- Websites specific to New York
- Pages specific to Cayuga County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cortland County
- Madison County
- Onondaga County
- Ontario County
- Schuyler County
- Seneca County
- Tompkins County
- Wayne County
- Yates County
- 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> | 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 Edgewater, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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- Edgewater) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |