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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 Savage Fork (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 Savage Fork. 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 Savage Fork ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Savage Fork: Savage Frk.

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/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 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.

Savage Fork is located in Vernon 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 Vernon Parish: Allen, Beauregard, Natchitoches, Rapides, Sabine & Newton (TX).

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

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

Cemeteries Near Savage Fork ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Savage Fork.

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 Savage Fork - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Craft Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Cyer Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Wilson Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Miller Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Cooper Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Stevens Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Gill Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Burr Ferry Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Kay Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Cypress Creek Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Rosepine Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (130 more) ...
    • Cemetery #7
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Smart Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Pine Hill Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Savage Fork ...

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 10 newspapers that have been published in the area around Savage Fork.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Savage Fork, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Savage Fork.

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 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 Savage Fork:

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