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 Weston (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 Weston. 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.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Weston is located in Windsor County.
To see how the shape of Vermont's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Windsor County: Grafton (NH), Sullivan (NH), Addison, Bennington, Orange, Rutland & Windham.
Below are the counties that are near Weston. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Weston:
- Windsor County (The home county of Weston)
- The following are listed by their distance from Weston, with the one closest to Weston listed first.
- Andover
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Andover is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andover
- Population from the 2020 Census: 472 people
- Andover
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Simonsville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Simonsville is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simonsville
- Ludlow
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Ludlow is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludlow
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,856 people
- Ludlow
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Grahamville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Grahamville is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grahamville
- Chester
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Chester is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chester
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,018 people
- Proctorsville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Cavendish
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Chester Depot
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Chester Depot is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chester Depot
- Chester
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Cavendish
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Cavendish is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cavendish
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,415 people
- Tyson
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Tyson is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyson
- Bennington County
- The following are listed by their distance from Weston, with the one closest to Weston listed first.
- Landgrove
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Landgrove is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landgrove
- Population from the 2020 Census: 156 people
- Landgrove Town Center
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Landgrove Town Center is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landgrove Town Center
- Peru
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Peru is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peru
- Population from the 2020 Census: 355 people
- Bromley Village
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Bromley Village is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bromley Village
- Winhall
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Winhall is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winhall
- Population from the 2020 Census: 726 people
- Dorset
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Dorset is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorset
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,937 people
- Barnumville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Barnumville is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnumville
- Manchester Depot
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Manchester Depot is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manchester Depot
- Dorset
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Manchester Center
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Manchester Center is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manchester Center
- Manchester
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Manchester is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manchester
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,214 people
- Manchester
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Rupert
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Rupert is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rupert
- Population from the 2020 Census: 682 people
- Rutland County
- The following are listed by their distance from Weston, with the one closest to Weston listed first.
- Mount Tabor
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Mount Tabor is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Tabor
- Population from the 2020 Census: 257 people
- Healdville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Healdville is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Healdville
- Mount Holly
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Mount Holly is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Holly
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,241 people
- Mount Holly
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Bowlsville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Bowlsville is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowlsville
- South Wallingford
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- South Wallingford is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Wallingford
- Wallingford
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Wallingford is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallingford
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,938 people
- Danby Four Corners
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Danby Four Corners is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danby Four Corners
- Wallingford
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Danby
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Danby is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danby
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,308 people
- Shrewsbury
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Shrewsbury is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shrewsbury
- Population from the 2020 Census: 979 people
- Tinmouth
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Tinmouth is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tinmouth
- Population from the 2020 Census: 588 people
- Clarendon
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Clarendon is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarendon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,396 people
- Windham County
- The following are listed by their distance from Weston, with the one closest to Weston listed first.
- Londonderry
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Londonderry is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Londonderry
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,639 people
- Windham
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Windham is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windham
- Population from the 2020 Census: 396 people
- Windham
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- South Windham
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- South Windham is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Windham
- Grafton
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Grafton is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grafton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 674 people
- Jamaica
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Jamaica is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jamaica
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,025 people
- Grafton
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Jamaica
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- West Townshend
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Brockways Mills
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Brockways Mills is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brockways Mills
- Cambridgeport
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Cambridgeport is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cambridgeport
- Athens
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Athens is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Athens
- Population from the 2020 Census: 435 people
- Athens
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Athens is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Athens
- Cheshire County (NH)
- The following are listed by their distance from Weston, with the one closest to Weston listed first.
- Cold River
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Cold River is located in Cheshire County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold River
- Drewsville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Drewsville is located in Cheshire County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drewsville
- Alstead
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Walpole
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Alstead Center
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Alstead Center is located in Cheshire County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alstead Center
- Westmoreland
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Sullivan County (NH)
- The following are listed by their distance from Weston, with the one closest to Weston listed first.
- Charlestown
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Balloch
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Balloch is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Balloch
- Claremont
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Quaker City
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Quaker City is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quaker City
- Cornish
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Langdon
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Langdon is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langdon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 688 people
- Cornish City
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Cornish City is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornish City
- Squag City
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Squag City is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Squag City
- Acworth
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Acworth is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acworth
- Population from the 2020 Census: 897 people
- South Cornish
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- South Cornish is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Cornish
- Unity
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Unity is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unity
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,616 people
- Plainfield
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Mill Village
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Mill Village is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Village
- Washington County (NY)
- The following are listed by their distance from Weston, with the one closest to Weston listed first.
- Granville
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Porter
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Porter is located in Washington County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porter
- Middle Granville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Hampton
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Hampton is located in Washington County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampton
- North Hebron
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- North Hebron is located in Washington County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Hebron
- Truthville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Truthville is located in Washington County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truthville
- Salem
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Belcher
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Belcher is located in Washington County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belcher
- East Hartford
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- East Hartford is located in Washington County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Hartford
- Hartford
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Hartford is located in Washington County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartford
- North Granville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- North Granville is located in Washington County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Granville
- Anaquassacook
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Anaquassacook is located in Washington County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anaquassacook
- South Hartford
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- South Hartford is located in Washington County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Hartford
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Weston, see our County-by-County Page for Weston.
Cemeteries Near Weston ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Weston.
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 Weston - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Weston covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Weston, with the one closest to Weston listed first.
- Forefathers Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Maple Grove Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Middletown Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Landgrove Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landgrove Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Landgrove Cemetery is located in the vicinity of Landgrove
- The Landgrove Cemetery has also been known as:
- Old Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2216251 <2>
- Landgrove Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Staples Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Island Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Carlton Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Simonsville Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Heald Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Pettengill Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- East Hill Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Continue List (481 more) ...
- North Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Riverside Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Stowell Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
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 Weston in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Weston.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Weston, with the one closest to Weston listed first.
- Weston
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Londonderry
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Simonsville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Simonsville is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simonsville
- Andover
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Peru
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- North Windham
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- North Windham is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Windham
- Ludlow
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Healdville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Healdville is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Healdville
- South Londonderry
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Mount Holly
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- East Wallingford
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Gassetts
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Gassetts is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gassetts
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Proctorsville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Danby
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- North Dorset
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- North Dorset is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Dorset
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Weston. See our List of 1890's Communities around Weston.
Newspapers Published in Weston ...
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 23 newspapers that have been published in the area around Weston.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Weston, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Weston.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we 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 Weston:
- Websites specific to Vermont
- Pages specific to Windsor County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Bennington County
- Rutland County
- Windham County
- Cheshire County
- Sullivan County
- Washington County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Vermont
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Weston, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Weston) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |