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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 Suburban Acres (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 Suburban Acres. 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 Suburban Acres ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Suburban Acres.

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 Suburban Acres - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Mt. Gilead Missionary Baptist Church
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Forest Lawn Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • St. Marys Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • West Point Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Point Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the West Point Cemetery is located in Norfolk.
    • The West Point Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Calvary Cemetery
    • Potter's Field Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2208490 <1>
  • Cedar Grove Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Elmwood Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Hebrew Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Oak Grove Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Cedar Grove Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Trinity Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (142 more) ...

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

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

  • Lamberts Point
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Lamberts Point is located in Norfolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamberts Point
  • Norfolk
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Ocean View
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Ocean View is located in Norfolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocean View
  • Brambleton
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Brambleton is located in Norfolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brambleton
  • Berkley
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Berkley is located in Norfolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berkley
  • Elizabeth Park
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Elizabeth Park is located in Norfolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elizabeth Park
  • Kempsville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Kempsville is located in Virginia Beach City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kempsville
  • Phoebus
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Phoebus is located in Hampton City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phoebus
  • Thalia
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Thalia is located in Virginia Beach City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thalia
  • Hampton
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Deanes
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Deanes is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deanes
  • Lynnhaven
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Lynnhaven is located in Virginia Beach City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynnhaven
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Shoulders Hill
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Shoulders Hill is located in Suffolk City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoulders Hill
    • Mapleton
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Mapleton is located in Virginia Beach City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mapleton
    • London Bridge
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • London Bridge is located in Virginia Beach City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for London Bridge

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

Newspapers Published in Suburban Acres ...

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 Suburban Acres.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Suburban Acres, there are papers which were published within 5 miles [8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Suburban Acres.

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 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 Suburban Acres:

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