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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 Happy Jack (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 Happy Jack. 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 hospitals and doctors 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.

Happy Jack 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 Happy Jack. For each of these parishes, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Happy Jack:

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

Cemeteries Near Happy Jack ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Happy Jack.

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 Happy Jack - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Bohemian Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Feets Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Ancal Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Mange Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • St. Paulinus Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Johnson Fisher Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Magnolia Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • St. Patrick Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Ballowe Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Woodland Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Pt. Celeste Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Cannon Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
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    • Nairn Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Nero Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Pt. Pleasant 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 in 1895, Happy Jack had a post office and railroad service.

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

  • Diamond
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Grand Bayou
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Grand Bayou is located in Plaquemines Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Bayou
  • Potash
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Bohemia
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Grand Prairie ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Grand Prairie is located in Plaquemines Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Prairie
  • Magnolia
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Magnolia is located in Plaquemines Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magnolia
  • Home Place
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Home Place is located in Plaquemines Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Home Place
  • West Pointe A La Hache
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Daisy ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Daisy is located in Plaquemines Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daisy
  • Woodland
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Point Celeste
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Point Celeste is located in Plaquemines Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point Celeste
  • Nairn
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Nicholls ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Nicholls is located in Plaquemines Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nicholls
    • Nero
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Nero is located in Plaquemines Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nero
    • Bellevue
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Bellevue is located in Plaquemines Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellevue

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

Newspapers Published in Happy Jack ...

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 Happy Jack.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Happy Jack, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Happy Jack.

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 helpful 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 Happy Jack:

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