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 Venice (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 Venice. 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 southwest 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 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 west 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.
Venice 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 Venice. For each of these parishes, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Venice:
- Plaquemines Parish (The home parish of Venice)
- The following are listed by their distance from Venice, with the one closest to Venice listed first.
- Boothville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Pilottown
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Buras
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Sunrise
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Sunrise is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise
- Empire
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Pilotsville ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Pilotsville is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilotsville
- Nairn
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Nairn is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nairn
- Daisy ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Daisy is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daisy
- Burrwood ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Burrwood is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burrwood
- Port Eads
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Port Eads is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Eads
- Port Sulphur
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Potash
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Potash is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potash
- Happy Jack
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Happy Jack is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Jack
- Pointe Coupee Parish
- Torras ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Torras is located in Pointe Coupee Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torras
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Venice, see our Parish-by-Parish Page for Venice.
Cemeteries Near Venice ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Venice.
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 Venice - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Venice covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Venice, with the one closest to Venice listed first.
- Boothville Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Pt. Pleasant Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Cannon Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Nairn Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- St. Patrick Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Johnson Fisher Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Bohemian Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
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 Venice in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Venice.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Venice, with the one closest to Venice listed first.
- Pilottown
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Quarantine ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Quarantine is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quarantine
- Buras
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Sunrise
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Sunrise is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise
- Empire
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Nicholls ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Nicholls is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nicholls
- Nairn
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Nairn is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nairn
- Port Eads
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Port Eads is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Eads
- Daisy ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Daisy is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daisy
- Home Place
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Home Place is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Home Place
- Grand Prairie ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Grand Prairie is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Prairie
- Potash
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Potash is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potash
- Happy Jack
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Happy Jack is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Jack
- Grand Bayou
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Grand Bayou is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Bayou
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Venice. See our List of 1890's Communities around Venice.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Venice:
- Websites specific to Louisiana
- Pages specific to Plaquemines Parish
- Genealogy information for nearby parishes
- 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> | 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 Venice, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |