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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 Darbydale (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 Darbydale. 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 doctors 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.

Darbydale is located in Franklin 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 Franklin County: Delaware, Fairfield, Licking, Madison, Pickaway & Union.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Darbydale ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Darbydale.

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

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

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

  • Little Pennsylvania Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Gundy Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Ebenezer Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Oak Grove Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Fitzgerald Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Orient Feeble Minded Institute Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Galloway Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Jackson Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Big Plain Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Grove City Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Salem Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Dennison Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (498 more) ...
    • Seeds Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Concord Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Thomas Adams Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)

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 Darbydale in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Darbydale.

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

  • Harrisburg
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Orient
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Pleasant Corners
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Georgesville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Georgesville is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Georgesville
  • Galloway
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Big Plain
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Big Plain is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Plain
  • Derby
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Derby is located in Pickaway County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derby
  • Lilly Chapel
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Lilly Chapel is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lilly Chapel
  • Kiousville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Kiousville is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiousville
  • Grove City
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Alton
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Matville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...
    • Sullivant ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • West Jefferson
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Nioga ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Nioga is located in Madison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nioga

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

Newspapers Published in Darbydale ...

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 369 newspapers that have been published in the area around Darbydale.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Darbydale, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Darbydale.

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 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 Darbydale:

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 Darbydale, 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Darbydale) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.