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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 Fleming Court (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 Fleming Court. 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 Fleming Court ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Fleming Court: Fleming Ct. (or less commonly used: Fleming Crt.)

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 Fleming Court ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fleming Court.

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 Fleming Court - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Springwood Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Old Lick Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Richard Carver Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Tombstone Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • City Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Emanuel Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Beth Israel Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Jonathan Tosh Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Williams Memorial Park
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • St. Andrews Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Fairview Cemetery is located in Roanoke.
    • The Fairview Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Fairview Cemetery
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    • Memorial Bridge Park
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Evergreen Burial Park
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Mt. View Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 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 Fleming Court in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Fleming Court.

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

  • Roanoke
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Hollins
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Vinton
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Bonsack
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Bonsack is located in Roanoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonsack
  • Coyner Springs
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Coyner Springs is located in Botetourt County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyner Springs
  • Cloverdale
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Leslie
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Leslie is located in Roanoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leslie
  • Daleville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Cave Spring
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Cave Spring is located in Roanoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cave Spring
  • Stewartsville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Stewartsville is located in Bedford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stewartsville
  • Blue Ridge
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Troutville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
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    • Amsterdam
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Amsterdam is located in Botetourt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amsterdam
    • Poages Mill
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Poages Mill is located in Roanoke County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poages Mill
    • Hardy Ford
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Hardy Ford is located in Franklin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardy Ford

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

Newspapers Published in Fleming Court ...

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 39 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fleming Court.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fleming Court, there are papers which were published within 3 miles [4.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Fleming Court.

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 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 Fleming Court:

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 Fleming Court, 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Fleming Court) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.