Our Genealogy HelperIntroduction ...We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
By learning about Sleepy Hollow (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 Sleepy Hollow. 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 Sleepy Hollow ...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 Sleepy Hollow: Sleepy Holw. (or less commonly used: Sleepy Hlw. or Sleepy Hllw.) You might be interested in other communities that are also named Sleepy Hollow. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Sleepy Hollow. 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 Sleepy Hollow ...Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sleepy Hollow. 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 Sleepy Hollow - one of the links might be able to help. If not found below, our Cemetery List for Sleepy Hollow covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order. The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Sleepy Hollow, with the one closest to Sleepy Hollow listed first.
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.<3> While we didn't find Sleepy Hollow in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Sleepy Hollow. These communities are listed based on their distance from Sleepy Hollow, with the one closest to Sleepy Hollow listed first.
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Sleepy Hollow. See our List of 1890's Communities around Sleepy Hollow. Newspapers Published in Sleepy Hollow ...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 39 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sleepy Hollow. Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sleepy Hollow, there are papers which were published within 3 miles [4.8 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sleepy Hollow. Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Sleepy Hollow:
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