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 Cyr Plantation (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 Cyr Plantation. 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.
Cyr Plantation is located in Aroostook 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 Aroostook County: Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset & Washington.
Below are the counties that are near Cyr Plantation. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Cyr Plantation:
- Aroostook County (The home county of Cyr Plantation)
- The following are listed by their distance from Cyr Plantation, with the one closest to Cyr Plantation listed first.
- Van Buren
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Caswell
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Caswell is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caswell
- Population from the 2020 Census: 281 people
- Stockholm
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Hamlin
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Hamlin is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamlin
- Population from the 2020 Census: 202 people
- North Lyndon
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- North Lyndon is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lyndon
- New Sweden
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Barretts
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Barretts is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barretts
- Lille
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Lille is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lille
- Somers Corner
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Somers Corner is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Somers Corner
- Limestone
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Westmanland
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Westmanland is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westmanland
- Population from the 2020 Census: 58 people
- Sinclair
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Caribou
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Cyr Plantation, see our County-by-County Page for Cyr Plantation.
Cemeteries Near Cyr Plantation ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cyr Plantation.
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 Cyr Plantation - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Cyr Plantation covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Cyr Plantation, with the one closest to Cyr Plantation listed first.
- Grand Riviere Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- St. Leonard Parent Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- St. Bruno - St. Remi Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- St. Leonard Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- First St. Theresa Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- St. Theresas Catholic Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Theresas Catholic Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Theresas Catholic Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Stockholm.
- The St. Theresas Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Theresa Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1967632 <2>
- Stockholm Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- St. Josephs Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Hedman Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Jemtland Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- West Jemtland Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Sacred Heart Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Continue List (100 more) ...
- West Road Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Capitol Hill Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Howland Family Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
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 Cyr Plantation in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Cyr Plantation.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Cyr Plantation, with the one closest to Cyr Plantation listed first.
- Van Buren
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Acadia
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Acadia is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acadia
- Caswell
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Caswell is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caswell
- Population from the 2020 Census: 281 people
- Jemtland
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Jemtland is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jemtland
- Hamlin
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Hamlin is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamlin
- Population from the 2020 Census: 202 people
- North Lyndon
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- North Lyndon is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lyndon
- New Sweden
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Limestone
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Caribou
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Hurd
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Hurd is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurd
- East Lyndon
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- East Lyndon is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Lyndon
- Perham
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Roberts
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Roberts is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberts
- Saint David
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Washburn
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Cyr Plantation. See our List of 1890's Communities around Cyr Plantation.
Newspapers Published in Cyr Plantation ...
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 12 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cyr Plantation.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cyr Plantation, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cyr Plantation.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Cyr Plantation:
- Websites specific to Maine
- Pages specific to Aroostook County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- 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> | 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 Cyr Plantation, 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 from Point A (ie- Cyr Plantation) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |