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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 Crystal Spring Knolls (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 Crystal Spring Knolls. 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 Crystal Spring Knolls ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Crystal Spring Knolls: Crystal Spg. Knls. (or less commonly used: Crystal Spng. Knls. or Crystal Sprng. Knls.)

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.

Cemeteries Near Crystal Spring Knolls ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Crystal Spring Knolls.

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 Crystal Spring Knolls - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Wunder Family Graveyard
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Harrison Family Graveyard
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Donaldson Family Graveyard
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Marcey Family Graveyard
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Pelham Family Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Hicks Family Graveyard
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Calloway UMC Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Basil Halls Family Graveyard
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Mt. Olivet Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Ball Family Graveyard
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Mills Family Graveyard
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Donaldson Family Graveyard
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Continue List   (390 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.<2>

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

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

  • Baileys Crossroads
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Langley
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Langley is located in Fairfax County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langley
  • Cabin John
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Bethesda
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Lewinsville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Lewinsville is located in Fairfax County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewinsville
  • Merrifield
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Lincolnia
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Lincolnia is located in Fairfax County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincolnia
  • Dunn Loring
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Annandale
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Alexandria
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Silver Spring
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Sligo
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Sligo is located in Montgomery County (MD)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sligo
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...
    • Linden
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Linden is located in Montgomery County (MD)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linden
    • Ash Grove
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Ash Grove is located in Fairfax County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ash Grove
    • Franconia
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)

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

Newspapers Published in Crystal Spring Knolls ...

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 15 newspapers that have been published in the area around Crystal Spring Knolls.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Crystal Spring Knolls, there are papers which were published within 4 miles [6.4 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Crystal Spring Knolls.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Crystal Spring Knolls:

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 Crystal Spring Knolls, 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 '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- Crystal Spring Knolls) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.