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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 Doziers Corner (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 Doziers Corner. 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 Doziers Corner ...

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 Doziers Corner: Doziers Cor. (or less commonly used: Doziers Crn.)
  • While the name of this community is Doziers Corner, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Doziers Corner may originally have been Dozier's Corner.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Doziers Corner might be written as Dozier Corner.

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 Doziers Corner ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Doziers Corner.

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 Doziers Corner - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Mt. Olive Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Roosevelt Memorial Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Workmans Circle Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Sargent March Corfrew Family Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Bainbridge & Elco Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Wallace Family Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Memorial Gardens
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Berea Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Magnolia Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • All Saint Catholic Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for All Saint Catholic Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the All Saint Catholic Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Portsmouth.
    • The All Saint Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Portsmouth Catholic Cemetery
    • St. Paul's Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #52028 <2>
  • Bethel Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Jewish Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (113 more) ...
    • Mt. Olive Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Mt. Olive Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Lincoln Memorial Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)

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

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

  • Berkley
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Berkley is located in Norfolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berkley
  • Elizabeth Park
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Elizabeth Park is located in Norfolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elizabeth Park
  • Brambleton
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Brambleton is located in Norfolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brambleton
  • Norfolk
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Kempsville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Kempsville is located in Virginia Beach City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kempsville
  • Lamberts Point
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Lamberts Point is located in Norfolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamberts Point
  • Mapleton
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Mapleton is located in Virginia Beach City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mapleton
  • Thalia
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Thalia is located in Virginia Beach City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thalia
  • Deanes
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Deanes is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deanes
  • Shoulders Hill
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Shoulders Hill is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoulders Hill
  • Lynnhaven
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Lynnhaven is located in Virginia Beach City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynnhaven
  • London Bridge
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • London Bridge is located in Virginia Beach City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for London Bridge
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Ocean View
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Ocean View is located in Norfolk City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocean View
    • Driver
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Driver is located in Suffolk City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Driver
    • Pungo
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Pungo is located in Virginia Beach City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pungo

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

Newspapers Published in Doziers Corner ...

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 160 newspapers that have been published in the area around Doziers Corner.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Doziers Corner, there are papers which were published within 6 miles [9.7 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Doziers Corner.

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 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 Doziers Corner:

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>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 Doziers Corner, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Doziers Corner) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.