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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 Fly Summit (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 Fly Summit. 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 doctors and 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.

Fly Summit is located in Washington County.

To see how the shape of New York's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Washington County: Essex, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Warren, Addison (VT), Bennington (VT) & Rutland (VT).

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

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

Cemeteries Near Fly Summit ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fly Summit.

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 Fly Summit covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Brownell Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brownell Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Brownell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Greenwich Protestant Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Woodland Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Woodland Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Woodland Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • St. Josephs Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Josephs Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Josephs Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Gerald B.H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Fraser Burial Site
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fraser Burial Site
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fraser Burial Site have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Woodside Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Woodside Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Woodside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Victory Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Victory Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Victory Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Fairmount Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairmount Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fairmount Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Stillwater Union Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stillwater Union Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Stillwater Union Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • St. Peters Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Peters Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Peters Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • St. Johns Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Johns Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Johns Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Continue List   (448 more) ...

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.<6>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Fly Summit had a population of 98 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • West Cambridge
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for West Cambridge have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Cambridge
    • West Cambridge is located in Washington County
  • Center Cambridge
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Archdale
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Easton
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Easton have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Easton
    • Easton is located in Washington County
  • South Cambridge
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Cambridge have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Cambridge
    • South Cambridge is located in Washington County
  • North Easton
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Coila
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Crandall Corners
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Cambridge
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cambridge have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cambridge
    • Cambridge is located in Washington County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,796 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cambridge <3>
  • Greenwich
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greenwich have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwich
    • Greenwich is located in Washington County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,698 people
  • Johnsonville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Middle Falls
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Middle Falls have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middle Falls
    • Middle Falls is located in Washington County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Middle Falls <3>
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Fly Summit ...

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 49 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fly Summit.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fly Summit, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Fly Summit.

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 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 Fly Summit:

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Fly Summit) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fly Summit. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.0119, Longitude: -73.4836    
<6>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 Fly Summit, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.