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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 Addison (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 Addison. 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 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.

Addison is located in Dallas County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dallas County: Collin, Denton, Ellis, Kaufman, Rockwall & Tarrant.

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

  • Dallas County     (The home county of Addison)
  • Collin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Addison, with the one closest to Addison listed first.
    • Carrollton
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Hebron
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Hebron is located in Collin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hebron
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 212 people
    • Plano
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Murphy
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Frisco
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Allen
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Allen is located in Collin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allen
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 109,379 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Allen <1>
    • Parker
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Sachse
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Saint Paul
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Saint Paul is located in Collin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Paul
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,039 people
    • Rockhill
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Lucas
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Lucas is located in Collin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucas
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,819 people
    • Fairview
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Comanche County
  • Denton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Addison, with the one closest to Addison listed first.
    • The Colony
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Hackberry
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Hackberry is located in Denton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hackberry
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,094 people
    • Lakewood Village
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Lakewood Village is located in Denton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakewood Village
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,002 people
    • Hickory Creek
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Highland Village
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Little Elm
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Lake Dallas
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Flower Mound
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Copper Canyon
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Double Oak
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Oak Point
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Southlake
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Ellis County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Addison, with the one closest to Addison listed first.
    • Oak Leaf
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Oak Leaf is located in Ellis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Leaf
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,498 people
    • Red Oak
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Kaufman County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Addison, with the one closest to Addison listed first.
    • Heath
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Heath is located in Kaufman County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heath
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,718 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Heath <1>
    • Forney
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Rockwall County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Addison, with the one closest to Addison listed first.
    • Rockwall
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Mobile City
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Fate
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • McLendon - Chisholm
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • McLendon - Chisholm is located in Rockwall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McLendon - Chisholm
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,815 people
    • Blackland
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Tarrant County

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

Cemeteries Near Addison ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Addison.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Addison, with the one closest to Addison 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.<3>

While we didn't find Addison in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Addison.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Addison ...

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 288 newspapers that have been published in the area around Addison.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Addison, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Addison.

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 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 Addison:

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 Addison, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Addison) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.