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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 Panorama Heights (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 Panorama Heights. 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 Panorama Heights ...

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 Panorama Heights: Panorama Hts. (in Canada, 'Hgts.' is the more common abbreviation.)

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Panorama Heights. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Panorama Heights.

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 Panorama Heights ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Panorama Heights.

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 Panorama Heights - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Fairview Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • 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
  • St. Andrews Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Williams Memorial Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Cedar Lawn Burial Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Loury Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Peters Creek Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Evergreen Burial Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Memorial Bridge Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Jonathan Tosh Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Harris Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Sherwood Burial Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • East Hill Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
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    • James E Day Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • City Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Old Lick Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)

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

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

  • Roanoke
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Cave Spring
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Cave Spring is located in Roanoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cave Spring
  • Hollins
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Vinton
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Poages Mill
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Poages Mill is located in Roanoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poages Mill
  • Leslie
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Leslie is located in Roanoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leslie
  • Bonsack
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Bonsack is located in Roanoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonsack
  • Cloverdale
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Coyner Springs
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Coyner Springs is located in Botetourt County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyner Springs
  • Catawba
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Naff
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Naff is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Naff
  • Daleville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
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    • Moomaw ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Moomaw is located in Roanoke County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moomaw
    • Airpoint
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Airpoint is located in Roanoke County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Airpoint
    • Amsterdam
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Amsterdam is located in Botetourt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amsterdam

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

Newspapers Published in Panorama Heights ...

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 58 newspapers that have been published in the area around Panorama Heights.

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

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 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 Panorama Heights:

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