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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 Cedar Level (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 Cedar Level. 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 Cedar Level ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cedar Level.

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 Cedar Level - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • St. Pauls Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Mt. Sinai Memorial Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • City Point National Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Appomattox Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Pleasant Grove Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Bermuda Memorial Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Walker Family Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Bucher and Strachan Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Blandford Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • St. Joseph's RC Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Joseph's RC Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Joseph's RC Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Petersburg.
    • The St. Joseph's RC Cemetery has also been known as:
    • St. Josephs Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1968061 <1>
  • Eastview Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Rod-of Sholom Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (270 more) ...

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 Cedar Level in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Cedar Level.

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

  • Shirley
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Shirley is located in Charles City County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley
  • Bermuda Hundred ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Bermuda Hundred is located in Chesterfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bermuda Hundred
  • Walthall
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Walthall is located in Chesterfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walthall
  • Ettrick
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Meadowville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Meadowville is located in Chesterfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowville
  • Pembroke
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Pembroke is located in Petersburg City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pembroke
  • Garysville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Garysville is located in Prince George County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garysville
  • Chester
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Matoaca
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Matoaca is located in Chesterfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matoaca
  • Westover
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Westover is located in Charles City County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westover
  • Cotman ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Cotman is located in Henrico County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotman
  • Centralia
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Centralia is located in Chesterfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centralia
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Derby ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Derby is located in Prince George County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derby
    • Disputanta
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Newville
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Newville is located in Prince George County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newville

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

Newspapers Published in Cedar Level ...

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 118 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cedar Level.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cedar Level, there are papers which were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cedar Level.

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 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 Cedar Level:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Cedar Level) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Cedar Level, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
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