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 Stalbird (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 Stalbird. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.
Stalbird is located in Saint Lawrence 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 Saint Lawrence County: Franklin, Hamilton, Herkimer, Jefferson & Lewis.
Below are the counties that are near Stalbird. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Stalbird:
- Saint Lawrence County (The home county of Stalbird)
- The following are listed by their distance from Stalbird, with the one closest to Stalbird listed first.
- Palmerville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Palmerville is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palmerville
- Russell
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Hermon
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Edwards
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Edwards is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwards
- Estimated population in 2012: 433 people
- Clare
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Clare is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clare
- De Kalb Junction
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Degrasse
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Degrasse is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Degrasse
- Talcville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Talcville is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talcville
- West Pierrepont
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- West Pierrepont is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Pierrepont
- De Kalb
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- De Kalb is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Kalb
- South Edwards
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- South Edwards is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Edwards
- Richville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Canton
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Canton is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 6,482 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Canton <1>
- Jefferson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Stalbird, with the one closest to Stalbird listed first.
- Oxbow
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Antwerp
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Natural Bridge
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Philadelphia
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Redwood
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Lewis County
- The following are listed by their distance from Stalbird, with the one closest to Stalbird listed first.
- Harrisville
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Lake Bonaparte
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Lake Bonaparte is located in Lewis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Bonaparte
- Jerden Falls
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Jerden Falls is located in Lewis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jerden Falls
- Indian River
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Indian River is located in Lewis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian River
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Stalbird, see our County-by-County Page for Stalbird.
Cemeteries Near Stalbird ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Stalbird.
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 Stalbird - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Stalbird covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Stalbird, with the one closest to Stalbird listed first.
- Fairview Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Riverside Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- West Hermon Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Pleasant View Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- East DeKalb Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- South Edwards Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- St. Henrys Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- North Russell Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- King Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Old DeKalb Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Maple Grove Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Wayside Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Continue List (125 more) ...
- Jerusalem Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Union Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Clark Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
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.<3>
While we didn't find Stalbird in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Stalbird.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Stalbird, with the one closest to Stalbird listed first.
- Russell
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Hermon
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- South Russell
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- South Russell is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Russell
- Edwards
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Edwards is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwards
- Estimated population in 2012: 433 people
- Talcville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Talcville is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talcville
- Degrasse
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Degrasse is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Degrasse
- De Kalb Junction
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Clare
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Clare is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clare
- North Russell
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- North Russell is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Russell
- Bigelow
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Bigelow is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bigelow
- South Edwards
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- South Edwards is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Edwards
- West Pierrepont
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- West Pierrepont is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Pierrepont
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- De Kalb
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- De Kalb is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Kalb
- Richville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Fine
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Stalbird. See our List of 1890's Communities around Stalbird.
Newspapers Published in Stalbird ...
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 48 newspapers that have been published in the area around Stalbird.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Stalbird, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Stalbird.
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 Stalbird:
- Websites specific to New York
- Pages specific to Saint Lawrence County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Jefferson County
- Lewis 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> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Stalbird, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | 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- Stalbird) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |