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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 Draneville (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 Draneville. 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 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 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.

Draneville is located in Marion 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 Marion County: Chattahoochee, Schley, Stewart, Talbot, Taylor & Webster.

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

  • Marion County     (The home county of Draneville)
  • Chattahoochee County
  • Lee County
  • Macon County
  • Muscogee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Draneville, with the one closest to Draneville listed first.
    • Upatoi
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Cusseta Heights
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Cusseta Heights is located in Muscogee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cusseta Heights
      • Estimated population in 2018: 10,684 people
    • Baker Village
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Baker Village is located in Muscogee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baker Village
    • Branton Woods
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Branton Woods is located in Muscogee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Branton Woods
      • Estimated population in 2019: 12,961 people
    • Saint Marys Hills
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Saint Marys Hills is located in Muscogee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Marys Hills
      • Estimated population in 2019: 18,567 people
    • Sunset Terrace
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Sunset Terrace is located in Muscogee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Terrace
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 846 people
  • Randolph County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Draneville, with the one closest to Draneville listed first.
    • Brooksville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Brooksville is located in Randolph County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brooksville
      • Estimated population in 2019: 559 people
    • Wades
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Wades is located in Randolph County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wades
      • Estimated population in 2019: 1,858 people
  • Schley County
  • Stewart County
  • Sumter County
  • Talbot County
  • Taylor County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Draneville, with the one closest to Draneville listed first.
    • Rupert
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Mauk
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Norwich
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Norwich is located in Taylor County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norwich
      • Estimated population in 2019: 222 people
    • Howard
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Howard is located in Taylor County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howard
    • Butler
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Terrell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Draneville, with the one closest to Draneville listed first.
    • Parrott
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Olivers Mill
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Olivers Mill is located in Terrell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olivers Mill
      • Estimated population in 2019: 230 people
    • Yeomans
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Yeomans is located in Terrell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeomans
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 507 people
    • Bronwood
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Dawson
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Webster County
  • Russell County (AL)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Draneville, with the one closest to Draneville listed first.
    • Holy Trinity
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Holy Trinity is located in Russell County (AL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holy Trinity
    • Oswichee
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Draneville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Draneville.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Draneville, with the one closest to Draneville 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.<3>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Draneville had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Church Hill
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Church Hill is located in Marion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Church Hill
  • Friendship
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Friendship is located in Sumter County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
  • Putnam
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Putnam is located in Marion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Putnam
    • Population from the 2010 Census: 2,898 people
  • Doyle
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Doyle is located in Marion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doyle
  • Hoggs ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Hoggs is located in Marion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoggs
  • Buena Vista
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Pineville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Pineville is located in Marion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pineville
  • Zellobee
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Zellobee is located in Marion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zellobee
  • Preston
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Ellaville
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Brantley
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Brantley is located in Marion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brantley
  • Glen Alta
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Draneville ...

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 52 newspapers that have been published in the area around Draneville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Draneville, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Draneville.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Draneville:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Draneville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Draneville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.