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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 Franklin Square (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 Franklin Square. 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 Franklin Square ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Franklin Square: Franklin Sq. (or less commonly used: Franklin Sqr.)

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

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 southwest 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 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.

Franklin Square is located in Columbiana 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 Columbiana County: Carroll, Jefferson, Mahoning, Stark, Beaver (PA), Lawrence (PA) & Hancock (WV).

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

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

Cemeteries Near Franklin Square ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Franklin Square.

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 Franklin Square - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Salem Twp. Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Hart Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Mt. Calvary Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Phillips Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • St. Jacobs Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • English Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Switzer Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Oakdale Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Highland Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Cool Springs Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Lutheran Church Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Robbins Memorial Church Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
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    • Washingtonville Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Grandview Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Frederick Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)

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 Franklin Square had a population of 316 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service.

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

  • Teegarden
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Washingtonville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Coleman
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Salem
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Winona
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Winona is located in Columbiana County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winona
  • Columbiana
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Greenford
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Signal
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Signal is located in Columbiana County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Signal
  • East Lewistown
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • East Lewistown is located in Mahoning County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Lewistown
  • New Garden
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • New Garden is located in Columbiana County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Garden
  • Elkton
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Elkton is located in Columbiana County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkton
  • East Fairfield
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • East Fairfield is located in Columbiana County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Fairfield
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    • Calla
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Calla is located in Mahoning County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calla
    • Valley
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Valley is located in Columbiana County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley
    • Dungannon
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Dungannon is located in Columbiana County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dungannon

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

Newspapers Published in Franklin Square ...

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 Franklin Square.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Franklin Square, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Franklin Square.

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 Franklin Square:

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 Franklin Square, 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- Franklin Square) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.