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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 Mountainview (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 Mountainview. 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 Mountainview ...

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.

Another variation: Mountain View.

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Mountainview. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Mountainview.

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 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.

Mountainview is located in Franklin 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 Franklin County: Androscoggin, Kennebec, Oxford & Somerset.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Mountainview ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mountainview.

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

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

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

  • Rangeley Village Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Madrid Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Stockbridge Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  • West Byron Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
  • Mountain View Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Eustis Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Flagstaff Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Andover Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • Robertson Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Phillips - Maine Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...
    • Woodlawn Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Center Hill Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Avon Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Mountainview ...

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 15 newspapers that have been published in the area around Mountainview.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Mountainview, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Mountainview.

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 websites either 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 Mountainview:

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 Mountainview, 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- Mountainview) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.