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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 English (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 English. 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 northeast corner of their home parish. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next parish to the east. 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 east 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.

English is located in Bienville 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 Bienville Parish: Bossier, Claiborne, Jackson, Lincoln, Natchitoches, Red River, Webster & Winn.

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

  • Bienville Parish     (The home parish of English)
  • Caldwell Parish
  • Claiborne Parish
  • Jackson Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from English, with the one closest to English listed first.
    • Hodge
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • East Hodge
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Jonesboro
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • North Hodge
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • North Hodge is located in Jackson Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Hodge
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 372 people
    • Quitman
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Weston
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Ansley
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Dalley ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Dalley is located in Jackson Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dalley
    • Chatham
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Nash ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Nash is located in Jackson Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nash
    • Cartwright
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Eros
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Eros is located in Jackson Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eros
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 151 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Eros <1>
    • Zoar
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Lincoln Parish
  • Natchitoches Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from English, with the one closest to English listed first.
    • Goldonna
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Ashland
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Chestnut
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Caspari ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Caspari is located in Natchitoches Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caspari
  • Ouachita Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from English, with the one closest to English listed first.
    • Indian Village
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Indian Village is located in Ouachita Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Village
    • Calhoun
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Red River Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from English, with the one closest to English listed first.
    • Martin
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Martin is located in Red River Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martin
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 543 people
    • Hall Summit
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Webster Parish
    • Heflin
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Winn Parish

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

Cemeteries Near English ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of English.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from English, with the one closest to English 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.<2>

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

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

  • Friendship
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Friendship is located in Bienville Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
  • Liberty Hill
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Gansville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Weston
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Hebron
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Hebron is located in Jackson Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hebron
  • Pine Ridge
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Blume
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Blume is located in Bienville Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blume
  • Saline
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Bienville
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Burkplace
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Bear Creek
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Bear Creek is located in Bienville Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Creek
  • Vernon
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Vernon is located in Jackson Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vernon
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Brown
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Brown is located in Bienville Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown
    • Gaars Mill
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Gaars Mill is located in Winn Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gaars Mill
    • Dalley ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Dalley is located in Jackson Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dalley

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

Newspapers Published in English ...

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 41 newspapers that have been published in the area around English.

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

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 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 English:

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 English, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- English) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.