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 West Club Forest (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 West Club Forest. 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 West Club Forest ...

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 have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for West Club Forest: W. Club Forest

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.

Newspapers Published in West Club Forest ...

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 20 newspapers that have been published in the area around West Club Forest.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of West Club Forest, there are papers which were published within 2 miles [3.2 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for West Club Forest.

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 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 West Club Forest:

• 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 West Club Forest ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of West Club Forest.

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 West Club Forest covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from West Club Forest, with the one closest to West Club Forest listed first.

• Church Hill Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Church Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Church Hill Cemetery
• Sherwood Burial Park
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • The Sherwood Burial Park has also been known as:
  • Sherwood Cemetery
  • Sherwood Memorial Park
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sherwood Burial Park
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #728583 <3>
• East Hill Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the East Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the East Hill Cemetery
• Beamer Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Beamer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beamer Cemetery
• Ferguson Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ferguson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ferguson Cemetery
• Woods Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Woods Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Woods Cemetery
• Muse Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Muse Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Muse Cemetery
• Bellvue Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bellvue Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bellvue Cemetery
• Cain Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cain Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cain Cemetery
• St. Andrews Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Andrews Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Andrews Cemetery
• Williams Memorial Park
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Williams Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Williams Memorial Park
• Harris Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Harris Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Harris Cemetery
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  • Duckwiller Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Duckwiller Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Duckwiller Cemetery
  • Henry Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Henry Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Henry Cemetery
  • Hackett Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hackett Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hackett 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.<4>

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

These communities are listed based on their distance from West Club Forest, with the one closest to West Club Forest listed first.

• Cave Spring
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cave Spring
  • Cave Spring is located in Roanoke County
• Poages Mill
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Poages Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poages Mill
  • Poages Mill is located in Roanoke County
• Roanoke
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roanoke
  • Roanoke is located in Roanoke City
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 99,058 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Roanoke <5>
• Airpoint
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Airpoint have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Airpoint
  • Airpoint is located in Roanoke County
• Lafayette
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lafayette have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lafayette
  • Lafayette is located in Montgomery County
• Catawba
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Catawba have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catawba
  • Catawba is located in Roanoke County
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Catawba <5>
• Naff
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Naff have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Naff
  • Naff is located in Franklin County
• Hollins
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hollins have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollins
  • Hollins is located in Roanoke County
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hollins <5>
• Moomaw ‑ Historic
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Moomaw have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moomaw
  • Moomaw is located in Roanoke County
• Elliston
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elliston
  • Elliston is located in Montgomery County
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elliston <5>
• Bent Mountain
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bent Mountain
  • Bent Mountain is located in Roanoke County
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bent Mountain <5>
• Leslie
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Leslie have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leslie
  • Leslie is located in Roanoke County
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  • Vinton
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vinton
    • Vinton is located in Roanoke County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,128 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vinton <5>
  • Bradshaw
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bradshaw have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradshaw
    • Bradshaw is located in Roanoke County
  • Boones Mill
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boones Mill
    • Boones Mill is located in Franklin County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 233 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Boones Mill <5>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for West Club Forest. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Virginia: https://www.virginia.gov/