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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 Swan Bluff (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 Swan Bluff. 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 Swan Bluff ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Swan Bluff: Swan Blf. (or less commonly used: Swan Bluf.)

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 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.

Swan Bluff is located in Hickman 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 Hickman County: Dickson, Humphreys, Lewis, Maury, Perry & Williamson.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Swan Bluff ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Swan Bluff.

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 Swan Bluff - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Campground Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Anderson Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Anderson Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Wheat Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Davis Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Stanfill Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Watson Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Whiteside Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Stewart Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Huddleston Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Shipp Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Huddleston Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
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    • Eason Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Shipp Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Bates Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)

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>

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

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

  • Sunrise
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Sunrise is located in Hickman County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise
  • Deans
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Deans is located in Hickman County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deans
  • Aetna
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Centerville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Tottys Bend
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Graytown
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Graytown is located in Hickman County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graytown
    • Estimated population in 2014: 1,528 people
  • Bluffpoint ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Bluffpoint is located in Hickman County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluffpoint
  • Littlelot
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Kimmins
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Palestine ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Palestine is located in Lewis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palestine
  • Kettle Mills
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Kettle Mills is located in Maury County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kettle Mills
  • Duck River
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
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    • Goodrich
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Goodrich is located in Hickman County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodrich
    • Nunnelly
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Jones Valley
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Jones Valley is located in Hickman County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones Valley

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

Newspapers Published in Swan Bluff ...

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 21 newspapers that have been published in the area around Swan Bluff.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Swan Bluff, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Swan Bluff.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Swan Bluff:

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 Swan Bluff, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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- Swan Bluff) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.