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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 Sango (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 Sango. 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 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Sango is located in Montgomery County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Montgomery County: Christian (KY), Todd (KY), Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Robertson & Stewart.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Sango ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sango.

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 Sango - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Smith Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Rest Haven Memorial Gardens
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Wall Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Albright Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Bearden Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Stack Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Head Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Davidson Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Stewart Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Smith Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Jarrell Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (734 more) ...

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Sango had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Woodford ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Woodford is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodford
  • Rossview
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Rossview is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rossview
  • Grantville ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Grantville is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grantville
  • Fredonia
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Port Royal
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Saint Bethlehem
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Henrietta
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Henrietta is located in Cheatham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henrietta
    • Estimated population in 2014: 921 people
  • Holmansville ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Holmansville is located in Robertson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holmansville
  • Hampton Station
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Hampton Station is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampton Station
  • Clarksville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Thomasville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Thomasville is located in Cheatham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thomasville
  • Orgains Crossroads
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Orgains Crossroads is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orgains Crossroads
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Forts ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Forts is located in Robertson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forts
    • New Providence
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • New Providence is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Providence
    • Southside
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Sango ...

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 68 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sango.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sango, there are papers which were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sango.

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 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 Sango:

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