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 Bodfish (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 Bodfish. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Bodfish is located in Piscataquis County.
To see how the shape of Maine's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Piscataquis County: Aroostook, Penobscot & Somerset.
Below are the counties that are near Bodfish. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Bodfish:
- Piscataquis County (The home county of Bodfish)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bodfish, with the one closest to Bodfish listed first.
- Willimantic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Willimantic is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willimantic
- Population from the 2020 Census: 143 people
- Monson
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Lower Shirley Corner
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Lower Shirley Corner is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Shirley Corner
- Upper Shirley Corner
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Upper Shirley Corner is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Shirley Corner
- Greenville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Shirley Mills
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Shirley Mills is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley Mills
- Shirley
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Shirley is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley
- Population from the 2020 Census: 229 people
- Greenville Junction
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Monson Junction
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Monson Junction is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monson Junction
- Beaver Cove
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Beaver Cove is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Cove
- Population from the 2020 Census: 117 people
- Bowerbank
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Bowerbank is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowerbank
- Population from the 2020 Census: 113 people
- Abbot
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Steadman Landing
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Steadman Landing is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steadman Landing
- Penobscot County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bodfish, with the one closest to Bodfish listed first.
- Silvers Mills
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Silvers Mills is located in Penobscot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silvers Mills
- Dexter
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Russell Corner
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Russell Corner is located in Penobscot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell Corner
- Garland
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Garland is located in Penobscot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garland
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,046 people
- Charleston
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Charleston is located in Penobscot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charleston
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,675 people
- North Bradford
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- North Bradford is located in Penobscot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Bradford
- Somerset County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bodfish, with the one closest to Bodfish listed first.
- Mayfield Corner
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Mayfield Corner is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayfield Corner
- Somerset Junction
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Somerset Junction is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Somerset Junction
- Cambridge
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Rockwood
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Ripley
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Ripley is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ripley
- Population from the 2020 Census: 479 people
- Brighton
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Brighton is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brighton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 67 people
- Brighton has also been known as:
- Brighton Plantation
- The Forks
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- The Forks is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Forks
- Population from the 2020 Census: 35 people
- The Forks has also been known as:
- The Forks Plantation
- Plantation of The Forks
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for The Forks <1>
- Harmony
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Mainstream
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Mainstream is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mainstream
- Caratunk
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- West Forks Plantation
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- West Forks Plantation is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Forks Plantation
- Population from the 2020 Census: 58 people
- West Forks
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Bingham
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Bodfish, see our County-by-County Page for Bodfish.
Cemeteries Near Bodfish ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bodfish.
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 Bodfish - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Bodfish covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bodfish, with the one closest to Bodfish listed first.
- Lake Road Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Riverside Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Hillside Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Monson Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Greenville Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Shirley Mills Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Abbot Village Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Guilford Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Bowerbank Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Lawn Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Elmwood Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Village Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Continue List (49 more) ...
- Rural Grove Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Gray Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Parkman Corner Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
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 Bodfish in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Bodfish.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Bodfish, with the one closest to Bodfish listed first.
- Onawa
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Onawa is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Onawa
- Willimantic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Willimantic is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willimantic
- Population from the 2020 Census: 143 people
- Monson
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Shirley
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Shirley is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley
- Population from the 2020 Census: 229 people
- North Guilford
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- North Guilford is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Guilford
- Greenville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Shirley Mills
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Shirley Mills is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley Mills
- Blanchard
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Blanchard is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blanchard
- Greenville Junction
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Monson Junction
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Monson Junction is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monson Junction
- Abbot
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Guilford
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Continue List (16 more) ...
- Sangerville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Barnard
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Barnard is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnard
- Lily Bay
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Lily Bay is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lily Bay
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bodfish. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bodfish.
Newspapers Published in Bodfish ...
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 25 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bodfish.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bodfish, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bodfish.
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 Bodfish:
- Websites specific to Maine
- Pages specific to Piscataquis County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Penobscot County
- Somerset County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Maine
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 Bodfish, 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- Bodfish) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |