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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 Blue Rock (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 Blue Rock. 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 Blue Rock ...

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.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.

Another variation: Bluerock.

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Blue Rock. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Blue Rock.

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.

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 hospitals 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.

Blue Rock is located in Muskingum 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 Muskingum County: Coshocton, Guernsey, Licking, Morgan, Noble & Perry.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Blue Rock ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Blue Rock.

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 Blue Rock - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Gaysport Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Union Hill Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Stone Church Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Blue Rock Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Bethlehem Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Antioch Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Dozer Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • St. Anns Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Philo Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Free Grace Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Allens Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Ruraldale Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (609 more) ...

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 Blue Rock had a population of 149 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Gaysport
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Gaysport is located in Muskingum County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gaysport
  • Merriam
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Merriam is located in Muskingum County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merriam
  • Stone
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Stone is located in Muskingum County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone
  • Cedar Run
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Cedar Run is located in Muskingum County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Run
  • Durant
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Duncan Falls
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Philo
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Philo is located in Muskingum County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Philo
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 728 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Philo <1>
  • Eagleport
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Rokeby Lock
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Rokeby Lock is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rokeby Lock
  • McDonald
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Museville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Stovertown
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Stovertown is located in Muskingum County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stovertown
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...
    • Cannelville
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • High Hill
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • High Hill is located in Muskingum County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Hill
    • Seawright ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Seawright is located in Muskingum County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seawright

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

Newspapers Published in Blue Rock ...

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 80 newspapers that have been published in the area around Blue Rock.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Blue Rock, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Blue Rock.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start 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 Blue Rock:

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 Blue Rock, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Blue Rock) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.