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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 Haskell (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 Haskell. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.

Haskell is located in LaPorte County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of LaPorte County: Jasper, Porter, Saint Joseph, Starke & Berrien (MI).

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

  • LaPorte County     (The home county of Haskell)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Haskell, with the one closest to Haskell listed first.
    • Alida
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Westville
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Wanatah
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Union Mills
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Holmesville
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Otis
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Hanna
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Door Village
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Door Village is located in LaPorte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Door Village
    • Kingsbury
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Kingsbury is located in LaPorte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsbury
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 239 people
    • Kingsford Heights
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Kingsford Heights is located in LaPorte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsford Heights
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,379 people
    • La Crosse
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • La Porte
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Jasper County
  • Lake County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Haskell, with the one closest to Haskell listed first.
    • Deep River
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Deep River is located in Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep River
    • Lakes of the Four Seasons
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Hobart
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Lake Station
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Winfield
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Winfield is located in Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,265 people
    • Duneland Village of Gary
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Green Acres
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • New Chicago
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • New Chicago is located in Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Chicago
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,937 people
    • Leroy
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Duneland Village
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Duneland Village is located in Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duneland Village
    • Liverpool
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Merrillville
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
  • Marshall County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Haskell, with the one closest to Haskell listed first.
    • Donaldson
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Donaldson is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Donaldson
    • Tyner
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Burr Oak
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Harris
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Harris is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harris
    • La Paz
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
    • Culver
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Culver is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Culver
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,484 people
  • Porter County
  • Pulaski County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Haskell, with the one closest to Haskell listed first.
    • Denham
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Medaryville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Beardstown
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Saint Joseph County
  • Starke County
  • Berrien County (MI)

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

Cemeteries Near Haskell ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Haskell.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Haskell, with the one closest to Haskell 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>

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

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

  • Alida
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Westville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Wanatah
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Coburg
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Coburg is located in Porter County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coburg
  • South Wanatah
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • South Wanatah is located in LaPorte County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Wanatah
  • Union Mills
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Wellsboro
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Wellsboro is located in LaPorte County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellsboro
  • Suman
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Hanna
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Durham
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Durham is located in LaPorte County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Durham
  • Holmesville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Otis
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (18 more) ...
    • Thomaston
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Thomaston is located in LaPorte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thomaston
    • Door Village
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Door Village is located in LaPorte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Door Village
    • Valparaiso
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Haskell ...

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 103 newspapers that have been published in the area around Haskell.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Haskell, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Haskell.

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 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 Haskell:

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 Haskell, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Haskell) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.