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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 Glenwood Landing (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 Glenwood Landing. 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 Glenwood Landing ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Glenwood Landing: Glenwood Lndg. (or less commonly used: Glenwood Lndng.)

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 northwest 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 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 west 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.

Glenwood Landing is located in Nassau 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 Nassau County: Bronx, Queens & Suffolk.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Glenwood Landing ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Glenwood Landing.

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 Glenwood Landing covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Roslyn Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Roslyn Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Roslyn Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • East Hillside Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the East Hillside Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the East Hillside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • St. Pauls Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Pauls Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Pauls Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Monfort Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Monfort Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Monfort Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Nassau Knolls Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Episcopal Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Episcopal Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Episcopal Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Clark Memorial Garden
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Clark Memorial Garden
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Clark Memorial Garden have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Brookville Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • St. Patrick Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Patrick Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Patrick Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Matinecock Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Matinecock Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Matinecock Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Searington Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Searington Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Searington Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Locust Valley Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
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    • Pratt Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pratt Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pratt Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • All Saints Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the All Saints Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the All Saints Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Friends Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Friends Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Friends Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> 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.<6>

While we didn't find Glenwood Landing in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Glenwood Landing.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Glenwood Landing ...

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 229 newspapers that have been published in the area around Glenwood Landing.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Glenwood Landing, there are papers which were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Glenwood Landing.

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 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 Glenwood Landing:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Glenwood Landing. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Nassau County: www.nassaucountyny.gov/

The official website for State of New York: https://www.ny.gov/

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 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>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.
<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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Glenwood Landing) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Glenwood Landing. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.8280, Longitude: -73.6402    
<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 Glenwood Landing, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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