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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 Kingsway (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 Kingsway. 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 northeast 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 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 east 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.

Kingsway is located in Sandusky 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 Sandusky County: Erie, Huron, Ottawa, Seneca & Wood.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Kingsway ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kingsway.

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

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

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

  • Greenwood Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Trinity Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Binkley Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Brier Hill Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Hineline Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Faith Lutheran Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Bowlus Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • St. Philomena Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Lindsey Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Fourmile House Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Bowlus Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • County Home Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (293 more) ...
    • Foust Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Overmyer Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Hessville 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, Kingsway had a post office and railroad service.

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

  • Fremont
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Lindsey
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Hessville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Hessville is located in Sandusky County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hessville
  • Oak Harbor
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Erlin
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Rocky Ridge
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Rocky Ridge is located in Ottawa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Ridge
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 407 people
  • Lacarne
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Gibsonburg
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Helena
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Elmore
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Millersville
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Millersville is located in Sandusky County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millersville
  • Limestone
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Limestone is located in Ottawa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limestone
  • Continue List   (18 more) ...
    • Vickery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Graytown
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Graytown is located in Ottawa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graytown
    • Tinney
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Tinney is located in Sandusky County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tinney

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

Newspapers Published in Kingsway ...

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 47 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kingsway.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kingsway, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Kingsway.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Kingsway:

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 Kingsway, 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Kingsway) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.