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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 Tadmor (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 Tadmor. 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.

Tadmor is located in Northampton County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Northampton County: Warren (NJ), Bucks, Carbon, Lehigh & Monroe.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Tadmor ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tadmor.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Tadmor, with the one closest to Tadmor 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 Tadmor in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Tadmor.

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

  • Clyde
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Clyde is located in Northampton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clyde
  • Steuben
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Steuben is located in Northampton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steuben
  • Hecktown
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Hecktown is located in Northampton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hecktown
  • Nazareth
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Moorestown
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Moorestown is located in Northampton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moorestown
  • Hanoverville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Hanoverville is located in Northampton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hanoverville
  • Brodhead
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Brodhead is located in Northampton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brodhead
  • Aluta
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Aluta is located in Northampton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aluta
  • Shimer
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Shimer is located in Northampton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shimer
  • Nisky
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Nisky is located in Northampton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nisky
  • Bushkill Center
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Bushkill Center is located in Northampton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bushkill Center
  • Klecknersville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Klecknersville is located in Northampton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Klecknersville
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Copella
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Copella is located in Northampton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copella
    • Weaversville
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Walters
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Walters is located in Northampton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walters

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

Newspapers Published in Tadmor ...

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 107 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tadmor.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Tadmor, there are papers which were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Tadmor.

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 websites either 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 Tadmor:

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 Tadmor, 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' (or 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- Tadmor) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.