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 Waynesboro (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 Waynesboro. 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.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Waynesboro ...
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 86 newspapers that have been published in the area around Waynesboro.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Waynesboro. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Waynesboro and those printed in the larger area surrounding Waynesboro.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Waynesboro.
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 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 Waynesboro:
- 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
Cemeteries Near Waynesboro ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Waynesboro.
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 Waynesboro covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Waynesboro, with the one closest to Waynesboro listed first.
- Fairview Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)- To give a relative sense of its location, the Fairview Cemetery is located in Waynesboro.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairview Cemetery
- Old Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Cemetery
- Riverview Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Riverview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverview Cemetery
- Mt. Lebanon Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mt. Lebanon Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Lebanon Cemetery
- Augusta Memorial Gardens
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Augusta Memorial Gardens have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Augusta Memorial Gardens
- Hildebrand Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hildebrand Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hildebrand Cemetery
- Mt. Marine Baptist Church Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Marine Baptist Church Cemetery
- St. Paul Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Paul Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Paul Cemetery
- Lebanon Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lebanon Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lebanon Cemetery
- Emmanuel Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Emmanuel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Emmanuel Cemetery
- Mountain View Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mountain View Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mountain View Cemetery
- Mt. Bethel UMC Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)- To give a relative sense of its location, the Mt. Bethel UMC Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<1> to the south of Crimora.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Bethel UMC Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2208050 <3>
- Continue List (327 more) ...
- Belmont Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Belmont Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Belmont Cemetery
- Croft Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Croft Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Croft Cemetery
- Holy Cross Episcopal Church Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)- To give a relative sense of its location, the Holy Cross Episcopal Church Cemetery is located between<4> the communities of Greenfield and Batesville. The cemetery lies 3 miles [4.8 km]<1> to the southwest of Batesville.
- The Holy Cross Episcopal Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- Holy Cross Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Cross Episcopal Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #50674 <3>
- Belmont 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.<5>
While we didn't find Waynesboro in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Waynesboro.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Waynesboro, with the one closest to Waynesboro listed first.
- Ladd
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west) - Afton
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Afton
- Afton is located in Nelson County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Afton <6>
- Dooms
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast) - Lyndhurst
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyndhurst
- Lyndhurst is located in Augusta County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lyndhurst <6>
- Madrid
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north) - Fishersville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fishersville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fishersville
- Fishersville is located in Augusta County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fishersville <6>
- Lipscomb
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest) - Hermitage
(5 miles [8 km] to the north) - Avon
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast) - Onan
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Onan
- Onan is located in Nelson County
- Greenwood
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greenwood have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood
- Greenwood is located in Albemarle County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Greenwood <6>
- Sherando
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherando
- Sherando is located in Augusta County
- Continue List (17 more) ...
- Sampson
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north) - Brand
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest) - Barterbrook
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Barterbrook have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barterbrook
- Barterbrook is located in Augusta County
- Sampson
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Waynesboro. See our List of 1890's Communities around Waynesboro.
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Waynesboro: www.waynesboro.va.us/
The official website for State of Virginia: https://www.virginia.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Waynesboro) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Waynesboro. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.0699, Longitude: -78.8892 |
| <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> | To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Greenfield and Batesville. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location. |
| <5> | 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 Waynesboro, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <6> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |