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 Tony (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 Tony. 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 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 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.
Tony is located in Iberia 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 Iberia Parish: Assumption, Iberville, Lafayette, Saint Martin, Saint Mary & Vermilion.
Below are the parishes that are near Tony. For each of these parishes, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Tony:
- Iberia Parish (The home parish of Tony)
- The following are listed by their distance from Tony, with the one closest to Tony listed first.
- Loreauville
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Morbihan
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Morbihan is located in Iberia Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morbihan
- New Iberia
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Lydia
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Patoutville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Patoutville is located in Iberia Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patoutville
- Jeanerette
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Derouen
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Derouen is located in Iberia Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derouen
- Avery Island
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Iberville Parish
- Indian Village
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Indian Village is located in Iberville Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Village
- Lafayette Parish
- The following are listed by their distance from Tony, with the one closest to Tony listed first.
- Billeaud
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Billeaud is located in Lafayette Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Billeaud
- Broussard
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Youngsville
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Milton
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Lafayette
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Scott
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Stekey
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Stekey is located in Lafayette Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stekey
- Carencro
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Ossun
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Ossun is located in Lafayette Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ossun
- Ridge
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Ridge is located in Lafayette Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridge
- Duson
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Saint Landry Parish
- The following are listed by their distance from Tony, with the one closest to Tony listed first.
- Portage
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Portage is located in Saint Landry Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Portage
- Arnaudville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Frozard
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Frozard is located in Saint Landry Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frozard
- Cankton
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Cankton is located in Saint Landry Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cankton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 504 people
- Saint Martin Parish
- The following are listed by their distance from Tony, with the one closest to Tony listed first.
- Bankers
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Bankers is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bankers
- Coteau Holmes
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Coteau Holmes is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coteau Holmes
- Keystone
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Keystone is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keystone
- Banker Plantation
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Banker Plantation is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banker Plantation
- Isle Labbe
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Isle Labbe is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isle Labbe
- Saint Martinville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Delacroix
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Delacroix is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delacroix
- Levert
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Levert is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Levert
- Saint John
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Saint John is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint John
- Catahoula Cove
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Catahoula Cove is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catahoula Cove
- Cade
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Duchamp
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Duchamp is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duchamp
- Saint Mary Parish
- The following are listed by their distance from Tony, with the one closest to Tony listed first.
- Adeline
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Adeline is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adeline
- Home Place
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Home Place is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Home Place
- Bodin
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Bodin is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bodin
- Glencoe
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Glencoe is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glencoe
- Ashton
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Ashton is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashton
- Caneland
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Caneland is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caneland
- Charenton
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Florence
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Florence is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence
- Cypremort
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Cypremort is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypremort
- Baldwin
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Katy
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Katy is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Katy
- Cote Blanche Landing
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Cote Blanche Landing is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cote Blanche Landing
- Vermilion Parish
- The following are listed by their distance from Tony, with the one closest to Tony listed first.
- Delcambre
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Erath
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Maurice
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Youngs
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Youngs is located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Youngs
- Abbeville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Meaux
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Meaux is located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meaux
- Perry
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Leroy
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Leroy is located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leroy
- Intracoastal City
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Andrew
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Andrew is located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andrew
- Indian Bayou
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Indian Bayou is located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Bayou
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Tony, see our Parish-by-Parish Page for Tony.
Cemeteries Near Tony ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tony.
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 Tony - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Tony covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Tony, with the one closest to Tony listed first.
- #1 Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- St. Peter's Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Bunk Johnsons Grave
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Memorial Park Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Memorial Park Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Memorial Park Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of New Iberia.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #170947 <2>
- Holy Family Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holy Family Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Holy Family Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of New Iberia.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1977799 <2>
- Boynton Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Bayside Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- St. Joseph Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Joseph Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- St. Johns Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- McGowen Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (79 more) ...
- Mt. Calvary Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Broussard Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Our Lady of the Lake Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 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.<3>
While we didn't find Tony in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Tony.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Tony, with the one closest to Tony listed first.
- Loreauville
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- New Iberia
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Segura
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Segura is located in Iberia Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Segura
- Saint Martinville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Delacroix
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Delacroix is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delacroix
- Burke
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Burke is located in Iberia Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burke
- Patoutville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Patoutville is located in Iberia Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patoutville
- Jeanerette
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Cade
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Derouen
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Derouen is located in Iberia Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derouen
- Duchamp
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Duchamp is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duchamp
- Sorrel
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Sorrel is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sorrel
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Bayou Chene
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Bayou Chene is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayou Chene
- Broussard
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Youngsville
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Tony. See our List of 1890's Communities around Tony.
Newspapers Published in Tony ...
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 22 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tony.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Tony, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Tony.
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 Tony:
- Websites specific to Louisiana
- Pages specific to Iberia Parish
- Genealogy information for nearby parishes
- Iberville Parish
- Lafayette Parish
- Saint Landry Parish
- Saint Martin Parish
- Saint Mary Parish
- Vermilion Parish
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Louisiana
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 Tony, 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 from Point A (ie- Tony) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |