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 Fame (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 Fame. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Ketterman. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Macksville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Hopeville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Seymourville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Maysville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Lahmansville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
The following are listed by their distance from Fame, with the one closest to Fame listed first.
Harperton (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Harperton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Evenwood. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
The following are listed by their distance from Fame, with the one closest to Fame listed first.
Canaan Valley (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Canaan Valley. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
The following are listed by their distance from Fame, with the one closest to Fame listed first.
Stokesville ‑ Historic (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Stokesville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
The following are listed by their distance from Fame, with the one closest to Fame listed first.
Palo Alto (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Palo Alto. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Briery Branch is located in Rockingham County (VA)
Clover Hill (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Clover Hill. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Green Mount. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Mount Clifton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Mount Clifton is located in Shenandoah County (VA)
Rinkerton (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Rinkerton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fame.
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 Fame covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Fame, with the one closest to Fame listed first.
Hevener Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fairview Bethel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Corbin Snyder Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
The Corbin Snyder Cemetery has also been known as:
Bennetts Run Cemetery
Hinkle Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Keister Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
To give a relative sense of its location, the Keister Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Brandywine.
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Bible Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Reedy Family Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
To give a relative sense of its location, the Reedy Family Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<5> to the southeast of Fulks Run (VA).
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.<6>
While we didn't find Fame in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Fame.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Fame, with the one closest to Fame listed first.
Deer Run (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deer Run have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Macksville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Fame. See our List of 1890's Communities around Fame.
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 51 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fame.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fame, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Fame.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Fame:
An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
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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.
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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.
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Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Fame) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fame. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.7421, Longitude: -79.1620 In this case, the coordinates for Fame have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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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 Fame, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.