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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 Tuck Fork (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 Tuck Fork. 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 Tuck Fork ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Tuck Fork: Tuck Frk.

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 southeast 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 south.

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 south 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.

Tuck Fork is located in King William County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of King William County: Caroline, Hanover, King and Queen & New Kent.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Tuck Fork ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tuck Fork.

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 Tuck Fork - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Tuck Fork, with the one closest to Tuck Fork 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.<2>

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

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

  • Mangohick
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Mangohick is located in King William County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mangohick
  • Globe
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Globe is located in King William County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Globe
  • Etna Mills
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Etna Mills is located in King William County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etna Mills
  • Beulahville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Enfield
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Bagby
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Bagby is located in Caroline County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bagby
  • Shumansville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Shumansville is located in Caroline County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shumansville
  • Cady
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Cady is located in Hanover County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cady
  • Aylett
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • South Anna
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • South Anna is located in Hanover County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Anna
  • Manquin
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Owenton
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Owenton is located in King and Queen County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owenton
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Peaks
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Peaks is located in Hanover County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peaks
    • Studley
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Penola
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Tuck Fork ...

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 18 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tuck Fork.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Tuck Fork, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Tuck Fork.

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 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 Tuck Fork:

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