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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 Doerun (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 Doerun. 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 Doerun ...

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.

Another variation: Doe Run.

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.

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 and doctors 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.

Doerun is located in Colquitt County.

To see how the shape of Georgia's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Colquitt County: Brooks, Cook, Mitchell, Thomas, Tift & Worth.

Below are the counties that are near Doerun. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Doerun:

  • Colquitt County     (The home county of Doerun)
  • Baker County
  • Brooks County
    • Tallokas ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Tallokas is located in Brooks County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tallokas
      • Estimated population in 2019: 171 people
  • Cook County
  • Dougherty County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Doerun, with the one closest to Doerun listed first.
    • Putney
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Pecan City
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Pecan City is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pecan City
    • Eleanor Village
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Eleanor Village is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eleanor Village
    • Tompkins Village
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Tompkins Village is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tompkins Village
    • Colonial Place
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Colonial Place is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colonial Place
    • Colonial Village
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Colonial Village is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colonial Village
    • East Towne
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • East Towne is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Towne
    • Elon Village
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Elon Village is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elon Village
    • Turner City
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Turner City is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turner City
    • Albany
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Hinds
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Hinds is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinds
      • Estimated population in 2019: 33,273 people
    • West Town
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • West Town is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Town
    • Eugemar
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Eugemar is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eugemar
      • Estimated population in 2019: 4,367 people
  • Grady County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Doerun, with the one closest to Doerun listed first.
    • Spence
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Woodland
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Lee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Doerun, with the one closest to Doerun listed first.
    • Palmyra
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Philema
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Mitchell County
  • Thomas County
  • Tift County
  • Turner County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Doerun, with the one closest to Doerun listed first.
    • Hobby
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Hobby is located in Turner County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobby
      • Estimated population in 2019: 536 people
    • Sycamore
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Ashburn
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Worth County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Doerun, with the one closest to Doerun listed first.
    • Liberty Hill
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Anderson City
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Anderson City is located in Worth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anderson City
    • Bridgeboro
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Alfords
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Alfords is located in Worth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alfords
    • East Dougherty
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • East Dougherty is located in Worth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Dougherty
      • Estimated population in 2019: 2,398 people
    • Sylvester
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Poulan
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Sumner
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Cuffietown
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Cuffietown is located in Worth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuffietown
      • Estimated population in 2019: 186 people

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Doerun, see our County-by-County Page for Doerun.

Cemeteries Near Doerun ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Doerun.

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 Doerun - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Doerun covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

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 Doerun in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Doerun.

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Doerun ...

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 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Doerun.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Doerun. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Doerun and those printed in the larger area surrounding Doerun.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<3> of Doerun.

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 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 Doerun:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Doerun) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Doerun, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.