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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 Nurneysville (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 Nurneysville. 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 Nurneysville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Nurneysville.

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

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

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

  • Barrett Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Rabey Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Skeeter Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Rawles Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Duke Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Badger Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Whitehead Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Riddick Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Pleasant Hill Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Oak Lawn Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Riddick Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Rosemont Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
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    • Cedar Hill Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Brinkley Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Holly Lawn Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)

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

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

  • Manning
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Manning is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manning
  • Saunders
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Saunders is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saunders
  • Whaley
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Whaley is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whaley
  • Whaleyville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Whaleyville is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whaleyville
  • Suffolk
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Kilby
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Kilby is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kilby
  • Somerton
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Somerton is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Somerton
  • Myrtle
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Myrtle is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myrtle
  • Magnolia
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Magnolia is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magnolia
  • Holland
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Holland is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holland
  • Wiggins Crossroads
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Wiggins Crossroads is located in Gates County (NC)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wiggins Crossroads
  • Corapeake
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
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    • Elwood
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Elwood is located in Suffolk City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elwood
    • Cleopus
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Cleopus is located in Suffolk City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleopus
    • Willeyton
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Willeyton is located in Gates County (NC)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willeyton

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

Newspapers Published in Nurneysville ...

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 10 newspapers that have been published in the area around Nurneysville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Nurneysville, there are papers which were published within 5 miles [8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Nurneysville.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Nurneysville:

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