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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 Daigle Mill (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 Daigle Mill. 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 Daigle Mill ...

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 Daigle Mill: Daigle Ml. (or less commonly used: Daigle Mll.)

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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.

Daigle Mill 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 Daigle Mill. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Daigle Mill:

  • Aroostook County     (The home county of Daigle Mill)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Daigle Mill, with the one closest to Daigle Mill listed first.
    • Lille
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Lille is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lille
    • Grand Isle
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Saint David
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Sinclair
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Saint Agatha
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Van Buren
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Madawaska
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Cyr Plantation
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Cyr Plantation is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cyr Plantation
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 94 people
    • Frenchville
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Stockholm
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Upper Frenchville
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Upper Frenchville is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Frenchville
    • Caswell
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Caswell is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caswell
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 281 people

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

Cemeteries Near Daigle Mill ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Daigle Mill.

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 Daigle Mill - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Daigle Mill, with the one closest to Daigle Mill listed first.

  • Mt. Carmel Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Notre Dame du Mt. Carmel Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • St. Gerard Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • St. Josephs Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • St. Agatha Catholic Church Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • St. Agatha Lower Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • St. Basile Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Grand Riviere Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Bruno - St. Remi Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Leonard Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • St. David Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • St. Etropus Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (58 more) ...
    • St. Leonard Parent Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • First St. Theresa Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • St. Theresas Catholic Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • 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>

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 Daigle Mill in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Daigle Mill.

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

  • Saint David
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Van Buren
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Frenchville
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Upper Frenchville
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Upper Frenchville is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Frenchville
  • Jemtland
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Jemtland is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jemtland
  • Acadia
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Acadia is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acadia
  • Caswell
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Caswell is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caswell
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 281 people
  • Hamlin
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Hamlin is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamlin
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 202 people
  • New Sweden
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
  • North Lyndon
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • North Lyndon is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lyndon
  • Fort Kent
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Wallagrass
    (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Wallagrass is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallagrass
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 520 people
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Eagle Lake
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Caribou
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Limestone
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Daigle Mill ...

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 4 newspapers that have been published in the area around Daigle Mill.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Daigle Mill, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Daigle Mill.

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 Daigle Mill:

  • Genealogy information for nearby counties

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