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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 Diamond (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 Diamond. 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 southwest corner of their home parish. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next parish to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the parish to the south.

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 south 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.

Diamond is located in Plaquemines 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 Plaquemines Parish: Jefferson, Orleans & Saint Bernard.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Diamond ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Diamond.

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

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

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

  • Ancal Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Feets Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Mange Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • St. Paulinus Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Bohemian Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Magnolia Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Ballowe Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Johnson Fisher Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Woodland Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Pt. Celeste Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • St. Patrick Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Nero Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (27 more) ...
    • Deer Range Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Cannon Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Nairn Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)

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.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Diamond had a population of 73 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service.

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

  • Bohemia
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Grand Bayou
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Grand Bayou is located in Plaquemines Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Bayou
  • Happy Jack
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Magnolia
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Magnolia is located in Plaquemines Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magnolia
  • West Pointe A La Hache
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Potash
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Grand Prairie ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Grand Prairie is located in Plaquemines Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Prairie
  • Woodland
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Home Place
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Home Place is located in Plaquemines Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Home Place
  • Point Celeste
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Point Celeste is located in Plaquemines Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point Celeste
  • Daisy ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Daisy is located in Plaquemines Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daisy
  • Nero
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Nero is located in Plaquemines Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nero
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Bellevue
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Bellevue is located in Plaquemines Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellevue
    • Deer Range
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Deer Range is located in Plaquemines Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Range
    • Harlem
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Harlem is located in Plaquemines Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harlem

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

Newspapers Published in Diamond ...

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 4 newspapers that have been published in the area around Diamond.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Diamond, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Diamond.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Diamond:

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>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 Diamond, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 from Point A (ie- Diamond) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.