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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 Holt (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 Holt. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Holt is located in Calhoun 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 Calhoun County: Baker, Clay, Dougherty, Early, Randolph & Terrell.

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

  • Calhoun County     (The home county of Holt)
  • Baker County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Holt, with the one closest to Holt listed first.
    • Milford
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Newton
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Anna
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Hawkinstown
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Hawkinstown is located in Baker County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawkinstown
      • Estimated population in 2019: 5,270 people
    • Mimsville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Lamar ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Clay County
  • Decatur County
    • Vada
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Dougherty County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Holt, with the one closest to Holt listed first.
    • West Town
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • West Town is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Town
    • Dawson Heights
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Dawson Heights is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dawson Heights
      • Estimated population in 2019: 3,246 people
    • Lake Park
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Lake Park is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Park
      • Estimated population in 2019: 1,207 people
    • Colonial Place
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Colonial Place is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colonial Place
    • Albany
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Eugemar
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Eugemar is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eugemar
      • Estimated population in 2019: 4,367 people
    • Relswood Terrace
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Relswood Terrace is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Relswood Terrace
      • Estimated population in 2019: 1,079 people
    • Hinds
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Hinds is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinds
      • Estimated population in 2019: 33,273 people
    • Colonial Village
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Colonial Village is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colonial Village
    • East Towne
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • East Towne is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Towne
    • Elon Village
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Elon Village is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elon Village
    • Putney
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Early County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Holt, with the one closest to Holt listed first.
    • Douglasville
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Douglass Crossroads
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Douglass Crossroads is located in Early County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Douglass Crossroads
      • Estimated population in 2019: 33,992 people
    • Damascus
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Bancroft
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Bancroft is located in Early County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bancroft
    • Hentown
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Hentown is located in Early County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hentown
      • Estimated population in 2019: 3,944 people
    • Blakely
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Centerville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Lee County
  • Miller County
  • Mitchell County
  • Randolph County
  • Terrell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Holt, with the one closest to Holt listed first.
    • Clarks Mill
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Clarks Mill is located in Terrell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarks Mill
      • Estimated population in 2019: 12,637 people
    • Herod
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Herod is located in Terrell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herod
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 3,384 people
    • Sasser
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Dawson
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Bronwood
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Yeomans
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Yeomans is located in Terrell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeomans
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 507 people
    • Olivers Mill
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Olivers Mill is located in Terrell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olivers Mill
      • Estimated population in 2019: 230 people
    • Parrott
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
  • Worth County

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

Cemeteries Near Holt ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Holt.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Holt, with the one closest to Holt 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>

While we didn't find Holt in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Holt.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Holt ...

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 31 newspapers that have been published in the area around Holt.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Holt, 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 Holt.

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 Holt:

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 Holt, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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- Holt) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.