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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 Lakeside (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 Lakeside. 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 Lakeside ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lakeside.

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 Lakeside - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Morrison Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Maney Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Peninsula Memorial Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Mt. Olive Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Warwick River Mennonite Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Parklawn Memorial Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Carver Memorial Park
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Ebenezer Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • New Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Hopson Gravesite
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Smith Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Battery Park Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (212 more) ...
    • Greenlawn Memorial Park
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenlawn Memorial Park
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Greenlawn Memorial Park is a very large cemetery that is located 7 miles [11.3 km]<1> to the southeast of Newport News.
      • The Greenlawn Memorial Park has also been known as:
      • Greenlawn Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #50456 <2>
    • Pleasant Shade Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Shade Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Pleasant Shade Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 7 miles [11.3 km]<1> to the southeast of Newport News.
      • The Pleasant Shade Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Holly Grove Cemetery
      • Mt. Zion Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #51692 <2>
    • Potters Field Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 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 Lakeside in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Lakeside.

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

  • Morrison
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Morrison is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrison
  • Newport News
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Menchville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Menchville is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Menchville
  • Rescue
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Rescue is located in Isle of Wight County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rescue
  • Oriana
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Oriana is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oriana
  • Denbigh
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Denbigh is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denbigh
  • Hampton
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Grafton
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Smithfield
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Carrollton
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Phoebus
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Phoebus is located in Hampton City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phoebus
  • Lee Hall
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Lee Hall is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee Hall
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Septa
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Septa is located in Isle of Wight County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Septa
    • Magnet
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Magnet is located in Isle of Wight County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magnet
    • Yorktown
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)

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

Newspapers Published in Lakeside ...

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 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lakeside.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lakeside, there are papers which were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lakeside.

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 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 Lakeside:

Footnotes ...

<1>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- Lakeside) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Lakeside, 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.