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 Moon Beach (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 Moon Beach. 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 Moon Beach ...
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 occur.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Moon Beach: Moon Bch.
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 southeast 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 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 east 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.
Moon Beach 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 Moon Beach. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Moon Beach:
- Cayuga County (The home county of Moon Beach)
- The following are listed by their distance from Moon Beach, with the one closest to Moon Beach listed first.
- North Sterling
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- North Sterling is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Sterling
- Sterling Valley
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Sterling Valley is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sterling Valley
- Fair Haven
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- North Victory
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- North Victory is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Victory
- Ira
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Ira is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ira
- Victory
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Victory is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victory
- Cato
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Meridian
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Weedsport
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Port Byron
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Port Byron is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Byron
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,181 people
- Former name for Port Byron:
- Bucksville
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Port Byron <1>
- Sennett
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Throop
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Throop is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Throop
- Onondaga County
- The following are listed by their distance from Moon Beach, with the one closest to Moon Beach listed first.
- Jacksonville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Lysander
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Lysander is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lysander
- Little Utica
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Little Utica is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Utica
- Wrights Corners
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Wrights Corners is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wrights Corners
- Plainville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Baldwinsville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Jacks Reef
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Jacks Reef is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacks Reef
- Jordan
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Village Green
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Village Green is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Village Green
- Euclid
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Euclid is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Euclid
- Memphis
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Elbridge
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Seneca Knolls
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Seneca Knolls is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seneca Knolls
- Oswego County
- The following are listed by their distance from Moon Beach, with the one closest to Moon Beach listed first.
- Southwest Oswego
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Southwest Oswego is located in Oswego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southwest Oswego
- Furniss
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Furniss is located in Oswego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Furniss
- Oswego Center
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Oswego Center is located in Oswego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oswego Center
- Hannibal
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Oswego
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Fairdale
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Fairdale is located in Oswego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairdale
- Minetto
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Granby Center
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Granby Center is located in Oswego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granby Center
- Scriba
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Scriba is located in Oswego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scriba
- Scriba has also been known as:
- Scriba Corners
- Bowens Corners
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Bowens Corners is located in Oswego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowens Corners
- Fulton
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Mount Pleasant
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Mount Pleasant is located in Oswego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Pleasant
- Drakes Corner
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Drakes Corner is located in Oswego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drakes Corner
- Seneca County
- Tyre
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Tyre is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyre
- Wayne County
- The following are listed by their distance from Moon Beach, with the one closest to Moon Beach listed first.
- Red Creek
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Furnace Village
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Furnace Village is located in Wayne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Furnace Village
- Wolcott
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- North Huron
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- North Huron is located in Wayne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Huron
- Huron
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Huron is located in Wayne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron
- South Butler
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- South Butler is located in Wayne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Butler
- Sodus Point
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- York
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- York is located in Wayne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for York
- Sodus
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- South Sodus
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- South Sodus is located in Wayne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Sodus
- Wayne Center
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Wayne Center is located in Wayne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayne Center
- Clyde
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Lyons
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Moon Beach, see our County-by-County Page for Moon Beach.
Cemeteries Near Moon Beach ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Moon Beach.
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 Moon Beach - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Moon Beach covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Moon Beach, with the one closest to Moon Beach listed first.
- Stevens Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Rice Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rice Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Rice Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<2> to the southwest of Oswego.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #65787 <3>
- Springbrook Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Union Village Rural Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Hannibal Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Irish Settlement Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Livingston Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- McArthur Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Phillips Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Forscutt Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Fairdale Rural Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Overacre Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Continue List (231 more) ...
- Martville Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Hannibal Center Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Lewis Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
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 Moon Beach in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Moon Beach.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Moon Beach, with the one closest to Moon Beach listed first.
- North Sterling
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- North Sterling is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Sterling
- Sterling Valley
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Sterling Valley is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sterling Valley
- Southwest Oswego
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Southwest Oswego is located in Oswego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southwest Oswego
- Sterling
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Fruit Valley
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Fruit Valley is located in Oswego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fruit Valley
- North Fair Haven
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- North Fair Haven is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Fair Haven
- North Hannibal
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- North Hannibal is located in Oswego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Hannibal
- Furniss
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Furniss is located in Oswego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Furniss
- Oswego Center
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Oswego Center is located in Oswego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oswego Center
- Fair Haven
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Hannibal
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Fairdale
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Fairdale is located in Oswego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairdale
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Oswego
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Martville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Hannibal Center
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Hannibal Center is located in Oswego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hannibal Center
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Moon Beach. See our List of 1890's Communities around Moon Beach.
Newspapers Published in Moon Beach ...
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 169 newspapers that have been published in the area around Moon Beach.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Moon Beach, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Moon Beach.
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 websites either 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 Moon Beach:
- Websites specific to New York
- Pages specific to Cayuga County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Onondaga County
- Oswego County
- Seneca County
- Wayne 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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Moon Beach) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <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 Moon Beach, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |