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 Wildwood (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 Wildwood. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.
Wildwood 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 Wildwood. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Wildwood:
- Saint Lawrence County (The home county of Wildwood)
- The following are listed by their distance from Wildwood, with the one closest to Wildwood listed first.
- Willisville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Willisville is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willisville
- Colton
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- South Colton
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Parishville Center
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Parishville Center is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parishville Center
- Coney Island
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Coney Island is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coney Island
- Hannawa Falls
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- West Parishville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- West Parishville is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Parishville
- Pierrepont
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Pierrepont is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierrepont
- Parishville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Potsdam
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Stark
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Stark is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stark
- West Pierrepont
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- West Pierrepont is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Pierrepont
- Franklin County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wildwood, with the one closest to Wildwood listed first.
- Saint Regis Falls
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Alburg
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Alburg is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alburg
- East Dickinson
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- East Dickinson is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Dickinson
- Moira
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Brushton
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- West Bangor
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- West Bangor is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Bangor
- Skerry
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Skerry is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skerry
- Hogansburg
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Bangor
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Bombay
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Altamont
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Altamont is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altamont
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Wildwood, see our County-by-County Page for Wildwood.
Cemeteries Near Wildwood ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wildwood.
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 Wildwood - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Wildwood covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Wildwood, with the one closest to Wildwood listed first.
- Pleasant Mound Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- St. Patrick Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Russell Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Willisville Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Chapel Hill Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Riverside Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Pierrepont Hill Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Cook Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Hillcrest Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Garfield Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garfield Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Garfield Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located less than 2 miles<2> to the southeast of Potsdam.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #64617 <3>
- Old St. Marys Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old St. Marys Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Old St. Marys Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located less than 2 miles<2> to the southeast of Potsdam.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #65537 <3>
- Fairview Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (145 more) ...
- Parmeter Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- White Church Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
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 Wildwood in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Wildwood.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Wildwood, with the one closest to Wildwood listed first.
- Colton
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- South Colton
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- West Parishville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- West Parishville is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Parishville
- Parishville Center
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Parishville Center is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parishville Center
- Hannawa Falls
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Pierrepont
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Pierrepont is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierrepont
- Parishville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Potsdam
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Southville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Southville is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southville
- Crary Mills
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Crary Mills is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crary Mills
- West Pierrepont
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- West Pierrepont is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Pierrepont
- Stark
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Stark is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stark
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Sisson
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Sisson is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sisson
- West Stockholm
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- North Russell
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- North Russell is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Russell
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Wildwood. See our List of 1890's Communities around Wildwood.
Newspapers Published in Wildwood ...
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 60 newspapers that have been published in the area around Wildwood.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Wildwood, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Wildwood.
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 professional and volunteer 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 Wildwood:
- Websites specific to New York
- Pages specific to Saint Lawrence County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- 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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Wildwood) 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 Wildwood, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |