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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 Rutland Plaza (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 Rutland Plaza. 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.

Cemeteries Near Rutland Plaza ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rutland Plaza.

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 Rutland Plaza - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Rutland Plaza covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Holy Cross Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Canarsie Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Cypress Hills National Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Union Field Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Mt. Judah Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • The Evergreens Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Evergreens Cemetery
    • The Evergreens Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Cemetery of the Evergreens
  • Union Field Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Knollwood Park Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Knollwood Park Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Most Holy Trinity Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Most Holy Trinity Cemetery
    • The Most Holy Trinity Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Henicke Cemetery
    • Holy Trinity Cemetery
  • Trinity Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
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    • Quaker Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Green - Wood Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green - Wood Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Green - Wood Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Brooklyn.
      • The Green - Wood Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Greenwood Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #64718 <1>
    • Washington Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)

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 Rutland Plaza in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Rutland Plaza.

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

  • Flatbush
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Flatbush is located in Kings County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flatbush
  • Brooklyn
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Flatlands
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Flatlands is located in Kings County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flatlands
  • Canarsie
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Canarsie is located in Kings County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canarsie
  • East New York
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • East New York is located in Kings County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East New York
  • City Line
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • City Line is located in Kings County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for City Line
  • Bushwick
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Bushwick is located in Kings County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bushwick
  • Parkville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Parkville is located in Kings County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkville
  • Williamsburg
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Williamsburg is located in Kings County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williamsburg
  • Glendale
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Glendale is located in Queens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glendale
  • Ridgewood
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Fresh Pond
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Fresh Pond is located in Queens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fresh Pond
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    • New Utrecht
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • New Utrecht is located in Kings County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Utrecht
    • Gravesend
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Gravesend is located in Kings County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gravesend
    • Ozone Park
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)

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

Newspapers Published in Rutland Plaza ...

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 79 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rutland Plaza.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rutland Plaza, there are papers which were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Rutland Plaza.

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 Rutland Plaza:

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<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 Rutland Plaza, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Rutland Plaza) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.