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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 Bagleys Mills (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 Bagleys Mills. 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 Bagleys Mills ...

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.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.

  • A typical abbreviation for Bagleys Mills: Bagleys Mls. (or less commonly used: Bagleys Mlls.)
  • While the name of this community is Bagleys Mills, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Bagleys Mills may originally have been Bagley's Mills.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Bagleys Mills might be written as Bagley Mills.

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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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.

Bagleys Mills is located in Lunenburg County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lunenburg County: Brunswick, Charlotte, Mecklenburg, Nottoway & Prince Edward.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Bagleys Mills ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bagleys Mills.

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 Bagleys Mills - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bagleys Mills, with the one closest to Bagleys Mills 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.<5>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Bagleys Mills had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Wattsboro
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Wilburn
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Wilburn is located in Lunenburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilburn
  • North View
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • North View is located in Mecklenburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North View
  • Non Intervention ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Non Intervention is located in Lunenburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Non Intervention
  • Oral Oaks
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Wightman
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Drapersville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Drapersville is located in Mecklenburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drapersville
  • Union Level
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • South Hill
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Lochleven
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • La Crosse
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Forksville
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Forksville is located in Mecklenburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forksville
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Rehoboth
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Rehoboth is located in Lunenburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rehoboth
    • Baskerville
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Baskerville is located in Mecklenburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baskerville
    • Muck Cross
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Muck Cross is located in Mecklenburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muck Cross

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

Newspapers Published in Bagleys Mills ...

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 30 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bagleys Mills.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bagleys Mills, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bagleys Mills.

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 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 Bagleys Mills:

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 from Point A (ie- Bagleys Mills) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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.
<5>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 Bagleys Mills, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.