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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 Malo Beach (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 Malo Beach. 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 Malo Beach ...

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 Malo Beach: Malo Bch.

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 Malo Beach ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Malo Beach.

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 Malo Beach - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Clark Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Oakland Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Barnes Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Smith Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smith Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Smith Cemetery is located in Hampton.
    • The Smith Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Phoebus Memorial Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2213068 <1>
  • Thornton Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thornton Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Thornton Cemetery is located in Hampton.
    • The Thornton Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Zion African American Cemetery
  • Lincoln Park Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Basset Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Elmerton Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • St. Johns Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Hampton National Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Pleasant Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Eastern Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
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    • Trinity Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Western Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Parklawn Memorial Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)

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

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

  • Phoebus
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Phoebus is located in Hampton City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phoebus
  • Hampton
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Ocean View
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Ocean View is located in Norfolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocean View
  • Morrison
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Morrison is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrison
  • Lamberts Point
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Lamberts Point is located in Norfolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamberts Point
  • Newport News
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Grafton
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Norfolk
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Menchville
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Menchville is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Menchville
  • Brambleton
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Brambleton is located in Norfolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brambleton
  • Oriana
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Oriana is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oriana
  • Denbigh
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Denbigh is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denbigh
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    • Rescue
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Rescue is located in Isle of Wight County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rescue
    • Berkley
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Berkley is located in Norfolk City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berkley
    • Elizabeth Park
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Elizabeth Park is located in Norfolk City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elizabeth Park

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

Newspapers Published in Malo Beach ...

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 6 newspapers that have been published in the area around Malo Beach.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Malo Beach, 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 Malo Beach.

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 Malo Beach:

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 Malo Beach, 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 '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- Malo Beach) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.