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 Port Fourchon (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 Port Fourchon. 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.

Name Variations for Port Fourchon ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Port Fourchon: Prt. Fourchon

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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

Port Fourchon is located in Lafourche Parish.

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

The following parishes adjoin and form the boundaries of Lafourche Parish: Assumption, Jefferson, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist & Terrebonne.

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

• Lafourche Parish     (The home parish of Port Fourchon)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Port Fourchon, with the one closest to Port Fourchon listed first.
  • Golden Meadow
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Golden Meadow have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Meadow
    • Golden Meadow is located in Lafourche Parish
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,935 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Golden Meadow <2>
  • Faleau ‑ Historic
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Faleau have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Faleau
    • Faleau is located in Lafourche Parish
  • Galliano
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Galliano have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galliano
    • Galliano is located in Lafourche Parish
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Galliano <2>
• Jefferson Parish
  • Grand Isle
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grand Isle have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Isle
    • Grand Isle is located in Jefferson Parish
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,447 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grand Isle <2>
• Terrebonne Parish
  • Cocodrie
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cocodrie have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cocodrie
    • Cocodrie is located in Terrebonne Parish

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

Newspapers Published in Port Fourchon ...

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 1 newspapers that have been published in the area around Port Fourchon.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Port Fourchon, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Port Fourchon.

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 Port Fourchon:

• Websites specific to Louisiana
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the //www.sos.la.gov/HistoricalResources//Historical Resources/

• Pages specific to Lafourche Parish
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby parishes
  • Jefferson Parish
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Terrebonne Parish
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Louisiana
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Louisiana
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Louisiana
  • Cemeteries of Lafourche Parish
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Louisiana
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Louisiana

Cemeteries Near Port Fourchon ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Port Fourchon.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

• Cheniere Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cheniere Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cheniere Cemetery
• Grand Isle Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Grand Isle Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grand Isle Cemetery
• Surgney Cemetery
  (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Surgney Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Surgney Cemetery
• Pitre Cemetery
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pitre Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pitre Cemetery
• Hebert Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hebert Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hebert Cemetery
• Williams Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Williams Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Williams Cemetery
• Alombro Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Alombro Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Alombro Cemetery
• Cheramie Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cheramie Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cheramie Cemetery
• Lange - Calahan Cemetery
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lange - Calahan Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lange - Calahan Cemetery

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.<4>

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

• Grand Isle
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grand Isle have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Isle
  • Grand Isle is located in Jefferson Parish
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,447 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grand Isle <2>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Port Fourchon. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Louisiana: louisiana.gov/