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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 Brulie Maurin (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 Brulie Maurin. 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 Parishes ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring parishes.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northwest corner of their home parish. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next parish to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the parish to the north.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring parishes instead of the parish in which they lived:  their home parish contained property and probate records; the parish to the west contained birth and death records; the parish to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring parishes, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Brulie Maurin is located in Assumption Parish.

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

The following parishes adjoin and form the boundaries of Assumption Parish: Ascension, Iberia, Iberville, Lafourche, Saint James, Saint Martin, Saint Mary & Terrebonne.

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

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Brulie Maurin, see our Parish-by-Parish Page for Brulie Maurin.

Cemeteries Near Brulie Maurin ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Brulie Maurin.

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 Brulie Maurin - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Brulie Maurin, with the one closest to Brulie Maurin 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 Brulie Maurin in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Brulie Maurin.

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

  • Donaldsonville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Belle Rose
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Plattenville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Smoke Bend
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Smoke Bend is located in Ascension Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smoke Bend
  • Paincourtville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • White Hall
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • White Hall is located in Saint James Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Hall
  • Union
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Union is located in Saint James Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
  • Lauderdale
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Lauderdale is located in Saint James Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lauderdale
  • Geary ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Geary is located in Ascension Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geary
  • Darrow
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • McCall
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • McCall is located in Ascension Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCall
  • Central
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Central is located in Saint James Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central
  • 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 Brulie Maurin. See our List of 1890's Communities around Brulie Maurin.

Newspapers Published in Brulie Maurin ...

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 34 newspapers that have been published in the area around Brulie Maurin.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Brulie Maurin, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Brulie Maurin.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to 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 Brulie Maurin:

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 Brulie Maurin, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Brulie Maurin) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.