Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Sign Pine. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Sign Pine to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Sign Pine, please Contact Us.
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 Sign Pine (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 Sign Pine. 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 Sign Pine ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sign Pine.
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 Sign Pine covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Sign Pine, with the one closest to Sign Pine listed first.
- Pleasant Grove Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pleasant Grove Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pleasant Grove Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Good Hope Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Good Hope Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Good Hope Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Wallaceton Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wallaceton Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Wallaceton Cemetery is located
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2634619 <3>
- Northwest Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Northwest Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Northwest Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Berea Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Berea Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Berea Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Memorial Gardens
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Memorial Gardens
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Memorial Gardens have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Sargent March Corfrew Family Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sargent March Corfrew Family Cemetery
- Moyock Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Moyock Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Moyock Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Mt. Olive Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Olive Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mt. Olive Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Roosevelt Memorial Park
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Roosevelt Memorial Park
- Blackwater Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Blackwater Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Blackwater Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Continue List (111 more) ...
- Wallace Family Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wallace Family Cemetery
- The Wallace Family Cemetery has also been known as:
- Deep Creek Lock Park Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2283847 <3>
- Workmans Circle Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Workmans Circle Cemetery
- Bethel Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bethel Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bethel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Wallace Family 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.
While we didn't find Sign Pine in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Sign Pine.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Sign Pine, with the one closest to Sign Pine listed first.
- Moyock
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moyock
- Moyock is located in Currituck County (NC)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Moyock <4>
- Lilly
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south) - Vine
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast) - Creeds
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east) - South Mills
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Mills have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Mills
- South Mills is located in Camden County (NC)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for South Mills <4>
- Tulls
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast) - Pungo
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pungo
- Pungo is located in Virginia Beach City
- Berkley
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north) - Snowden
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast) - Mapleton
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast) - Kempsville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kempsville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kempsville
- Kempsville is located in Virginia Beach City
- Elizabeth Park
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elizabeth Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elizabeth Park
- Elizabeth Park is located in Norfolk City
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- Brambleton
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brambleton have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brambleton
- Brambleton is located in Norfolk City
- Nimmo
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast) - Thalia
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Brambleton
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Sign Pine. See our List of 1890's Communities around Sign Pine.
Newspapers Published in Sign Pine ...
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 40 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sign Pine.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sign Pine, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sign Pine.
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 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 Sign Pine:
- 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 ...
The official website for State of Virginia: https://www.virginia.gov/
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 Sign Pine, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <5> | 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. |
| <6> | 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- Sign Pine) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sign Pine. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.6338, Longitude: -76.2435 In this case, the coordinates for Sign Pine have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |