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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 Boston Park (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 Boston Park. 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.

Cemeteries Near Boston Park ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Boston Park.

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 Boston Park - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Oak Lawn Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Cedar Hill Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Holly Lawn Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Pleasant Hill Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Rosemont Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Oliver Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Duke Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Mt. Zion Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Rawles Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Riddick Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Canaan Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Rabey Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (167 more) ...
    • Skeeter Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Badger Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Whitehead Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)

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>

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

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

  • Suffolk
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Kilby
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Kilby is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kilby
  • Manning
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Manning is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manning
  • Magnolia
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Magnolia is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magnolia
  • Myrtle
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Myrtle is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myrtle
  • Saunders
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Saunders is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saunders
  • Everets
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Everets is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Everets
  • Driver
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Driver is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Driver
  • Chuckatuck
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Chuckatuck is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chuckatuck
  • Shoulders Hill
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Shoulders Hill is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoulders Hill
  • Windsor
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Windsor is located in Isle of Wight County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windsor
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,800 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Windsor <3>
  • Longview
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Longview is located in Isle of Wight County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longview
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Holland
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Holland is located in Suffolk City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holland
    • Whaleyville
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Whaleyville is located in Suffolk City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whaleyville
    • Whaley
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Whaley is located in Suffolk City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whaley

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

Newspapers Published in Boston Park ...

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 10 newspapers that have been published in the area around Boston Park.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Boston Park, there are papers which were published within Less than 2 miles<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Boston Park.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Boston Park:

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<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 Boston Park, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Boston Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.