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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 Shore Park (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 Shore Park. 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 Shore Park ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Shore Park.

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 Shore Park - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Warwick River Mennonite Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Potters Field Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Peninsula Memorial Park
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Morrison Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • New Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Hopson Gravesite
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Smith Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • French Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Maney Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Carys Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Hopkins Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Jackson Post Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
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    • Battery Park Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Curtis Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Ebenezer Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 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.<1>

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

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

  • Denbigh
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Denbigh is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denbigh
  • Menchville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Menchville is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Menchville
  • Oriana
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Oriana is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oriana
  • Newport News
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Lee Hall
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Lee Hall is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee Hall
  • Morrison
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Morrison is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrison
  • Grafton
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Rescue
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Rescue is located in Isle of Wight County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rescue
  • Yorktown
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Smithfield
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Grove
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Grove is located in James City County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grove
  • Homewood
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Homewood is located in Surry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homewood
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    • Septa
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Septa is located in Isle of Wight County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Septa
    • Gloucester Point
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Highgate
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Highgate is located in Surry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highgate

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

Newspapers Published in Shore Park ...

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 33 newspapers that have been published in the area around Shore Park.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Shore Park, there are papers which were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Shore Park.

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 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 Shore Park:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Shore Park, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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- Shore Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.