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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 Truesdale Lake (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 Truesdale Lake. 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 Truesdale Lake ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Truesdale Lake: Truesdale Lk.

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.

Cemeteries Near Truesdale Lake ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Truesdale Lake.

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 Truesdale Lake - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • South Salem Presbyterian Church Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Mead Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Avery Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Delavan Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Keeler Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Reynolds - Cross River Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Knapp Barhite Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Waterbury Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Hoyt Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • June Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Ridgefield Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • St. Marys Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
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    • Cat Ridge Baptist Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Halstead Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Holmes Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 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 Truesdale Lake in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Truesdale Lake.

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

  • South Salem
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • South Salem is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Salem
  • Boutonville
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Boutonville is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boutonville
  • Titicus
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Titicus is located in Fairfield County (CT)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Titicus
  • Cross River
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Lewisboro
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Ridgefield
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Salem Center
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Salem Center is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salem Center
  • North Salem
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • North Salem is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Salem
  • Pound Ridge
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Ridgebury
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Ridgebury is located in Fairfield County (CT)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgebury
  • Purdys
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Katonah
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
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    • Vista
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • North Wilton
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • North Wilton is located in Fairfield County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Wilton
    • Georgetown
      (6 miles [9.7 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 Truesdale Lake. See our List of 1890's Communities around Truesdale Lake.

Newspapers Published in Truesdale Lake ...

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 39 newspapers that have been published in the area around Truesdale Lake.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Truesdale Lake, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Truesdale Lake.

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 Truesdale Lake:

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 Truesdale Lake, 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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Truesdale Lake) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.