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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 Budds Creek (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 Budds Creek. 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 Budds Creek ...

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 occur.

  • A typical abbreviation for Budds Creek: Budds Crk. (or less commonly used: Budds Ck. or Budds Cr.)
  • While the name of this community is Budds Creek, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Budds Creek may originally have been Budd's Creek.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Budds Creek might be written as Budd Creek.

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 Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Budds Creek is located in Saint Mary's County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Saint Mary's County: Calvert & Charles.

Below are the counties that are near Budds Creek. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Budds Creek:

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Budds Creek, see our County-by-County Page for Budds Creek.

Cemeteries Near Budds Creek ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Budds Creek.

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 Budds Creek - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Budds Creek had a population of 62 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Wicomico
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Wicomico is located in Charles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wicomico
  • Chaptico
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Newport
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Newport is located in Charles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newport
  • Mechanicsville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Allens Fresh
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Allens Fresh is located in Charles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allens Fresh
  • Newburg
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Tompkinsville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Tompkinsville is located in Charles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tompkinsville
  • Dentsville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Dentsville is located in Charles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dentsville
  • Charlotte Hall
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Morganza
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Rock Point
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Milestown
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Milestown is located in Saint Mary's County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milestown
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Budds Creek:

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<4>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 Budds Creek, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.