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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 Saint Bernard (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 Saint Bernard. 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 Saint Bernard ...

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 Saint Bernard: St. Bernard

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

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 doctors 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.

Saint Bernard is located in Hamilton 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 Hamilton County: Dearborn (IN), Boone (KY), Campbell (KY), Kenton (KY), Butler, Clermont & Warren.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Saint Bernard ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Saint Bernard.

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 Saint Bernard - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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.<3>

While we didn't find Saint Bernard in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Saint Bernard.

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

  • Ivorydale
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Ivorydale is located in Hamilton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivorydale
  • Winton Place
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Avondale
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Idlewild
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Idlewild is located in Hamilton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Idlewild
  • Bond Hill
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Bond Hill is located in Hamilton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bond Hill
  • Elmwood Place
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Walnut Hills
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Walnut Hills is located in Hamilton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Hills
  • Norwood
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Edgemont
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Edgemont is located in Hamilton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgemont
  • Carthage
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Carthage is located in Hamilton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carthage
  • Cumminsville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Camp Washington
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Camp Washington is located in Hamilton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Washington
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...
    • Corryville
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Corryville is located in Hamilton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corryville
    • Dayton
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Pendleton
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Pendleton is located in Hamilton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pendleton

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

Newspapers Published in Saint Bernard ...

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 Saint Bernard.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Saint Bernard, there are papers which were published within 6 miles [9.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Saint Bernard.

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 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 Saint Bernard:

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>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<3>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 Saint Bernard, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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- Saint Bernard) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.