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 The Meadows (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 The Meadows. 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 The Meadows ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of The Meadows.
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.
If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).
If not found below, our Cemetery List for The Meadows covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from The Meadows, with the one closest to The Meadows listed first.
- University Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the University Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the University Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Lincoln Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lincoln Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lincoln Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Oakwood Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oakwood Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Oakwood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Maplewood Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Maplewood Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Maplewood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Griffin Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Griffin Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Griffin Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Moon Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Moon Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Moon Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Munday Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Munday Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Munday Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Ivy Creek Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ivy Creek Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ivy Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Monticello Memorial Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Monticello Memorial Park
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Monticello Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Riverview Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverview Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #51879 <2>
- Chapman Grove Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chapman Grove Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Chapman Grove Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Coles Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Coles Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Coles Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Continue List (287 more) ...
- Hildebrand Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hildebrand Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hildebrand Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Garrison Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Garrison Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Garrison Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Church of the Good Shepherd Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Church of the Good Shepherd Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Church of the Good Shepherd Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Hildebrand Cemetery
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 The Meadows in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of The Meadows.
These communities are listed based on their distance from The Meadows, with the one closest to The Meadows listed first.
- Rio
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast) - Hydraulic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north) - Eastham
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east) - Rivanna
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast) - Simeon
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simeon
- Simeon is located in Albemarle County
- Proffit
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast) - Ivy
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivy
- Ivy is located in Albemarle County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ivy <5>
- Earlysville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Earlysville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Earlysville
- Earlysville is located in Albemarle County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Earlysville <5>
- Overton
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south) - Free Union
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Free Union
- Free Union is located in Albemarle County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Free Union <5>
- Millington
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Millington have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millington
- Millington is located in Albemarle County
- Keswick
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keswick
- Keswick is located in Albemarle County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Keswick <5>
- Continue List (19 more) ...
- Gilbert
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast) - Advance Mills
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Advance Mills
- Advance Mills is located in Albemarle County
- Advance Mills has also been known as:
- Fray's Mills
- Blenheim
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Gilbert
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around The Meadows. See our List of 1890's Communities around The Meadows.
Newspapers Published in The Meadows ...
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 62 newspapers that have been published in the area around The Meadows.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of The Meadows, there are papers which were published within 2 miles [3.2 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for The Meadows.
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 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 The Meadows:
- Websites specific to Virginia
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Website for the Library of Virginia
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Virginia
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Virginia
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Virginia
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Virginia
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Virginia
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for The Meadows. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for State of Virginia: https://www.virginia.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <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 The Meadows, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <6> | 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- The Meadows) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in The Meadows. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.0610, Longitude: -78.4981 In this case, the coordinates for The Meadows have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |