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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 Albany (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 Albany. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Albany is located in Athens County.

To see how the shape of Ohio's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Athens County: Hocking, Meigs, Morgan, Perry, Vinton, Washington & Wood (WV).

Below are the counties that are near Albany. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Albany:

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Albany, see our County-by-County Page for Albany.

Cemeteries Near Albany ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Albany.

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 Albany - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Crossroads Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Martin Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Cumberland Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Minear Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Town House Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Woodyard Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Haning Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Alexander Union Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Bolin Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Weaver Chapel Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Temple Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Quail Trap Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
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    • School Lot Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Memory Gardens Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Union Ridge 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 Albany had a population of 471 people in 1895 with railroad service and no post office. In 2020, Albany had a population of 892 people.

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

  • Mount Blanco
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Mount Blanco is located in Meigs County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Blanco
  • Valley Ford
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Valley Ford is located in Meigs County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Ford
  • Carpenter
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Fisher
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Fisher is located in Athens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisher
  • Bolins Mills
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Bolins Mills is located in Vinton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolins Mills
  • Chase
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Chase is located in Athens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chase
  • Pleasanton
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Pleasanton is located in Athens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasanton
  • Knox
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Knox is located in Vinton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knox
  • Vales Mills
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Point Rock
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Dyesville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Dyesville is located in Meigs County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dyesville
  • Harrisonville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Harrisonville is located in Meigs County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrisonville
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    • Snowville
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Snowville is located in Meigs County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snowville
    • Mineral
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Ingham ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Ingham is located in Athens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingham

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Albany ...

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 41 newspapers that have been published in the area around Albany.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Albany. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Albany and those printed in the larger area surrounding Albany.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<3> of Albany.

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 Albany:

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