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 Woodstock (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 Woodstock. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
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 west contained birth and death records; the county to the south 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.
Woodstock 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 Woodstock. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Woodstock:
- Windsor County (The home county of Woodstock)
- The following are listed by their distance from Woodstock, with the one closest to Woodstock listed first.
- Woodstock
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- South Woodstock
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- South Woodstock is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Woodstock
- Prosper
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Prosper is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prosper
- South Pomfret
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Hartland
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Hartland is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,513 people
- Fieldsville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Fieldsville is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fieldsville
- Bridgewater
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Bridgewater is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgewater
- Population from the 2020 Census: 967 people
- Pomfret
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Pomfret is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pomfret
- Population from the 2020 Census: 849 people
- Quechee
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Quechee is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quechee
- Reading
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Reading is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reading
- Population from the 2020 Census: 634 people
- Sheddsville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Sheddsville is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheddsville
- Hartland Four Corners
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Hartland
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Addison County
- The following are listed by their distance from Woodstock, with the one closest to Woodstock listed first.
- Hancock
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Goshen
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Goshen is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goshen
- Population from the 2020 Census: 165 people
- Hancock
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Hancock is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hancock
- Population from the 2020 Census: 334 people
- Lower Granville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Lower Granville is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Granville
- Granville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Bennington County
- The following are listed by their distance from Woodstock, with the one closest to Woodstock listed first.
- Landgrove
(27 miles [43.5 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
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Landgrove Town Center is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landgrove Town Center
- Peru
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Peru is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peru
- Population from the 2020 Census: 355 people
- Orange County
- The following are listed by their distance from Woodstock, with the one closest to Woodstock listed first.
- South Strafford
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Union Village
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Union Village is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Village
- South Randolph
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- South Randolph is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Randolph
- Tunbridge
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Strafford
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Strafford is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strafford
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,058 people
- Strafford
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Tunbridge
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Tunbridge is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunbridge
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,335 people
- Old City
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Old City is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old City
- Thetford Center
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Thetford
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Thetford is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thetford
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,525 people
- East Randolph
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- East Randolph is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Randolph
- Randolph Center
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Randolph
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Randolph is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randolph
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,558 people
- Rutland County
- The following are listed by their distance from Woodstock, with the one closest to Woodstock listed first.
- West Bridgewater
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- West Bridgewater is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Bridgewater
- Killington
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Killington is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Killington
- Population from the 2020 Census: 749 people
- Killington Village
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Killington Village is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Killington Village
- Sherburne
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Sherburne is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherburne
- Telemark Village
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Telemark Village is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Telemark Village
- Healdville
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Healdville is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Healdville
- Shrewsbury
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Shrewsbury is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shrewsbury
- Population from the 2020 Census: 979 people
- Pittsfield
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Mount Holly
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- 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
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Mendon
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Mendon is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mendon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,015 people
- Bowlsville
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Bowlsville is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowlsville
- Mendon
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Windham County
- The following are listed by their distance from Woodstock, with the one closest to Woodstock listed first.
- Brockways Mills
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Brockways Mills is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brockways Mills
- Londonderry
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Londonderry is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Londonderry
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,639 people
- Grafton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Grafton is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grafton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 674 people
- Rockingham
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Grafton
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Rockingham
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Rockingham is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockingham
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,986 people
- Cambridgeport
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Cambridgeport is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cambridgeport
- Windham
(30 miles [48.3 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
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Grafton County (NH)
- The following are listed by their distance from Woodstock, with the one closest to Woodstock listed first.
- Meadow Brook Village
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Meadow Brook Village is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Brook Village
- Pinewood Village
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Pinewood Village is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinewood Village
- West Lebanon
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- West Lebanon is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Lebanon
- Hanover
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Sachem Village
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Sachem Village is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sachem Village
- Lebanon
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Etna
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Etna is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etna
- Mascoma
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Mascoma is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mascoma
- Montcalm
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Montcalm is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montcalm
- Enfield
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Lower Shaker Village
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Lower Shaker Village is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Shaker Village
- Upper Shaker Village
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Upper Shaker Village is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Shaker Village
- Lockehaven
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Lockehaven is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lockehaven
- Merrimack County (NH)
- The following are listed by their distance from Woodstock, with the one closest to Woodstock listed first.
- Blodgett Landing
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Blodgett Landing is located in Merrimack County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blodgett Landing
- Mount Sunapee
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- New London
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Sullivan County (NH)
- The following are listed by their distance from Woodstock, with the one closest to Woodstock listed first.
- Plainfield
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Squag City
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Squag City is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Squag City
- Mill Village
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Mill Village is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Village
- Cornish
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Balloch
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Balloch is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Balloch
- Cornish City
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Cornish City is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornish City
- Meriden
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Meriden is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meriden
- South Cornish
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- South Cornish is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Cornish
- Claremont
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Grantham
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- North Grantham
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- North Grantham is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Grantham
- Croydon
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Croydon is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Croydon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 774 people
- Croydon Flat
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Croydon Flat is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Croydon Flat
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Woodstock, see our County-by-County Page for Woodstock.
Cemeteries Near Woodstock ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Woodstock.
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 Woodstock - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Woodstock covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Woodstock, with the one closest to Woodstock listed first.
- Shaw Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Randall Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Smith Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Riverside Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Williams Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Hendee Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Highland Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Long Hill Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Fullerton Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Kendall Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- River Street Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Densmore Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (464 more) ...
- Gill Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Frizzel Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Prosper Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
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 Woodstock in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Woodstock.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Woodstock, with the one closest to Woodstock listed first.
- West Woodstock
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- West Woodstock is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Woodstock
- South Woodstock
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- South Woodstock is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Woodstock
- Woodstock
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Bridgewater
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Taftsville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- South Pomfret
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Bridgewater Corners
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Hartland Four Corners
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Deweys Mills
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Deweys Mills is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deweys Mills
- Pomfret
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Pomfret is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pomfret
- South Reading
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- South Reading is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Reading
- Hartland
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Plymouth
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Felchville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Felchville is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Felchville
- Brownsville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Woodstock. See our List of 1890's Communities around Woodstock.
Newspapers Published in Woodstock ...
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 85 newspapers that have been published in the area around Woodstock.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Woodstock, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Woodstock.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Woodstock:
- Websites specific to Vermont
- Pages specific to Windsor County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Addison County
- Bennington County
- Orange County
- Rutland County
- Windham County
- Grafton County
- Merrimack County
- Sullivan 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 Woodstock, 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Woodstock) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |