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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 Pine Grove Court (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 Pine Grove Court. 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 Pine Grove Court ...

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 Pine Grove Court: Pine-Grv. Ct. (or less commonly used: Pine-Grv. Crt.)

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 Pine Grove Court ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pine Grove Court.

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 Pine Grove Court - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Lincoln Park Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Basset Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Elmerton Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Oakland Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Barnes Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Pleasant Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • St. Johns Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Hampton National Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Smith Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • 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 southeast)
    • 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
  • Clark Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Carver Memorial Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
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    • Parklawn Memorial Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Western Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Ebenezer Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 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.<2>

While we didn't find Pine Grove Court in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Pine Grove Court.

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

  • Hampton
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Phoebus
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Phoebus is located in Hampton City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phoebus
  • Morrison
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Morrison is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrison
  • Newport News
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Ocean View
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Ocean View is located in Norfolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocean View
  • Grafton
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Menchville
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Menchville is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Menchville
  • Oriana
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Oriana is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oriana
  • Denbigh
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Denbigh is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denbigh
  • Rescue
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Rescue is located in Isle of Wight County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rescue
  • Lamberts Point
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Lamberts Point is located in Norfolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamberts Point
  • Carrollton
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
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    • Norfolk
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Brambleton
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Brambleton is located in Norfolk City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brambleton
    • Berkley
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Berkley is located in Norfolk City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berkley

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

Newspapers Published in Pine Grove Court ...

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 26 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pine Grove Court.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pine Grove Court, there are papers which were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pine Grove Court.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Pine Grove Court:

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