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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 Grabow (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 Grabow. 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/Counties ...

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

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/counties 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/counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

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

Grabow is located in Beauregard 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 Beauregard Parish: Allen, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Vernon & Newton (TX).

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

  • Beauregard Parish     (The home parish of Grabow)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Grabow, with the one closest to Grabow listed first.
    • DeRidder
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Ludington
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Ludington is located in Beauregard Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludington
    • Ikes
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Ikes is located in Beauregard Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ikes
    • Newlin
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Newlin is located in Beauregard Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newlin
    • Singer
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Merryville
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Longville
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Sugartown
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Fayette ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Fayette is located in Beauregard Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fayette
    • Dry Creek
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Ragley
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Helme
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Helme is located in Beauregard Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helme
  • Allen Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Grabow, with the one closest to Grabow listed first.
    • Grant
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Cherry Grove
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Cherry Grove is located in Allen Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Grove
    • Tenmile
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Tenmile is located in Allen Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tenmile
    • Mittie
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Reids
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Reids is located in Allen Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reids
    • Reeves
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Marionville ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Marionville is located in Allen Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marionville
  • Calcasieu Parish
    • Dequincy
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Sabine Parish
    • Rock ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Rock is located in Sabine Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock
  • Vernon Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Grabow, with the one closest to Grabow listed first.
    • Rosepine
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Pinewood
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Pinewood is located in Vernon Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinewood
    • Savage Fork
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Savage Fork is located in Vernon Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Savage Fork
    • Cole Central
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Cole Central is located in Vernon Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cole Central
    • Elmwood
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Elmwood is located in Vernon Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmwood
    • Pickering
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Pickering is located in Vernon Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pickering
    • Evans
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Fort Polk
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Billy Goat Hill
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Billy Goat Hill is located in Vernon Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Billy Goat Hill
    • New Llano
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Cravens
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Cravens is located in Vernon Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cravens
    • Fort Polk North
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Fort Polk North is located in Vernon Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Polk North
  • Newton County (TX)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Grabow, with the one closest to Grabow listed first.
    • Hughes ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Hughes is located in Newton County (TX)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hughes
    • Bon Wier
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Burkeville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Shanklerville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Shanklerville is located in Newton County (TX)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shanklerville
    • Newton
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Newton is located in Newton County (TX)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,329 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Newton <1>
    • Wiergate
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • South Toledo Bend
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • South Toledo Bend is located in Newton County (TX)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Toledo Bend
    • Toledo
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Toledo is located in Newton County (TX)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toledo
    • Bleakwood
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Bleakwood is located in Newton County (TX)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bleakwood

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

Cemeteries Near Grabow ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Grabow.

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

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

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

  • Woodlawn Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Old Cypress Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Pleasant Hill Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Beauregard Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Cypress Creek Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Cooper Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Whitaker Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Bishop Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Rosepine Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Hinson Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Newlin Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Havens Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (102 more) ...
    • Johnson Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Miller Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Merryville Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merryville Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Merryville Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of Merryville.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #68206 <2>

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 Grabow in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Grabow.

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

  • Elmwood
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Elmwood is located in Vernon Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmwood
  • Belgrade
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Belgrade is located in Newton County (TX)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belgrade
  • Caney
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Caney is located in Vernon Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caney
  • Leesville
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
  • Burkeville
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
  • Newton
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Newton is located in Newton County (TX)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newton
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,329 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Newton <1>
  • Dido
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Dido is located in Vernon Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dido
  • Toledo
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Toledo is located in Newton County (TX)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toledo
  • Anacoco
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Walnut Hill
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Walnut Hill is located in Vernon Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Hill

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

Newspapers Published in Grabow ...

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 12 newspapers that have been published in the area around Grabow.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Grabow, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Grabow.

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 Grabow:

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 Grabow, 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Grabow) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.