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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 Woods of Arden (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 Woods of Arden. 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 Woods of Arden ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Woods of Arden.

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 Woods of Arden - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Woods of Arden, with the one closest to Woods of Arden listed first.

  • Ocean View Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • United Hebrew Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Douglass Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Mt. Richmond Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Sleight Family Graveyard
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • St. Josephs Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Patterson Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Moravian Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Vanderbilt Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • St. Lukes Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Zion Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Charleston Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
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    • Bethel Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Merrill Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • St. Marys Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Woods of Arden had railroad service and no post office.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Woods of Arden, with the one closest to Woods of Arden listed first.

  • Seaside
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Seaside is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seaside
  • Eltingville
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Eltingville is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eltingville
  • Annadale
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Annadale is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Annadale
  • Greenridge
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Greenridge is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenridge
  • Great Kills
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Great Kills is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Great Kills
  • Huguenot
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Huguenot is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huguenot
  • Princes Bay
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Princes Bay is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Princes Bay
  • Oakwood
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Oakwood is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakwood
  • Richmond
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Richmond is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richmond
  • Rossville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Rossville is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rossville
  • Richmond Valley
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Richmond Valley is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richmond Valley
  • Pleasant Plains
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Pleasant Plains is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Plains
  • Continue List   (20 more) ...
    • New Dorp
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • New Dorp is located in Richmond County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Dorp
    • Tottenville
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Tottenville is located in Richmond County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tottenville
    • Grasmere
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Grasmere is located in Richmond County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grasmere

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

Newspapers Published in Woods of Arden ...

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 103 newspapers that have been published in the area around Woods of Arden.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Woods of Arden, there are papers which were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Woods of Arden.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Woods of Arden:

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 Woods of Arden, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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- Woods of Arden) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.