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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 Voorhies (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 Voorhies. 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 doctors 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.

Voorhies is located in Jackson County.

To see how the shape of Oregon's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Jackson County: Siskiyou (CA), Douglas, Josephine & Klamath.

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

  • Jackson County     (The home county of Voorhies)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Voorhies, with the one closest to Voorhies listed first.
    • Phoenix
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Medford
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Talent
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Central Point
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jacksonville
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Sterlingville ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Sterlingville is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sterlingville
    • White City
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Ashland
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Buncom
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Buncom is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buncom
    • Ruch
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Eagle Point
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Brownsboro
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Brownsboro is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownsboro
  • Josephine County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Voorhies, with the one closest to Voorhies listed first.
    • Williams
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Fruitdale
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Fruitdale is located in Josephine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fruitdale
    • Murphy
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Grants Pass
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • New Hope
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • New Hope is located in Josephine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Hope
    • Redwood
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Redwood is located in Josephine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redwood
  • Siskiyou County (CA)
    • Hornbrook
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Voorhies ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Voorhies.

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

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

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

  • Phoenix Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Medford IOOF Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Siskiyou Memorial Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Dunkard Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Griffin Creek Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Memory Gardens Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Memory Gardens Memorial Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Stearn Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Nichols Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Central Point IOOF Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central Point IOOF Cemetery
    • The Central Point IOOF Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Central Point IOOF Cemetery
  • Meyers Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (43 more) ...
    • Jacksonville Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Sterlingville Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Sterling Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)

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.<4>

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

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

  • Phoenix
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Medford
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Talent
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Central Point
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Jacksonville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Ashland
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Wellen ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Wellen is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellen
  • Table Rock
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Table Rock is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Table Rock
  • Tolo
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Tolo is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolo
  • Eagle Point
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Brownsboro
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Brownsboro is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownsboro
  • Lakecreek
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Lakecreek is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakecreek
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Gold Hill
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Draper ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Draper is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Draper
    • Sams Valley
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Sams Valley is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sams Valley

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

Newspapers Published in Voorhies ...

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 105 newspapers that have been published in the area around Voorhies.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Voorhies, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Voorhies.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to 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 Voorhies:

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>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 from Point A (ie- Voorhies) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Voorhies, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.