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 Pauls (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 Pauls. 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 and hospitals 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.
Pauls 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 Pauls. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Pauls:
- Aroostook County (The home county of Pauls)
- The following are listed by their distance from Pauls, with the one closest to Pauls listed first.
- Caribou
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Barretts
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Barretts is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barretts
- McGraw
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- McGraw is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McGraw
- McGraw has also been known as:
- McGraw Siding
- Grimes Mill
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Grimes Mill is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grimes Mill
- Hurd
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Hurd is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurd
- East Lyndon
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- East Lyndon is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Lyndon
- Somers Corner
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Somers Corner is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Somers Corner
- North Lyndon
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- North Lyndon is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lyndon
- Crouseville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Crouseville is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crouseville
- Adaline
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Adaline is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adaline
- Washburn
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- New Sweden
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Pauls, see our County-by-County Page for Pauls.
Cemeteries Near Pauls ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pauls.
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 Pauls - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Pauls covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Pauls, with the one closest to Pauls listed first.
- Maine Veterans Memorial Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Evergreen Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Holy Rosary Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- New Holy Rosary Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Lyndon Center Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Cochran Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Woodland Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Bubar Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Grimes Kelly Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Doyle Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Riverside Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Riverside Extension Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (123 more) ...
- Crouseville Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Hillside Grove Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Munson Christy Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 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.<3>
While we didn't find Pauls in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Pauls.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Pauls, with the one closest to Pauls listed first.
- Caribou
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Hurd
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Hurd is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurd
- Roberts
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Roberts is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberts
- East Lyndon
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- East Lyndon is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Lyndon
- Washburn
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- North Lyndon
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- North Lyndon is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lyndon
- Parkhurst
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Parkhurst is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkhurst
- New Sweden
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Perham
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Acadia
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Acadia is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acadia
- Presque Isle
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Maple Grove
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Maple Grove is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Grove
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Fort Fairfield
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Limestone
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Castle Hill
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Castle Hill is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Hill
- Population from the 2020 Census: 390 people
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Pauls. See our List of 1890's Communities around Pauls.
Newspapers Published in Pauls ...
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 Pauls.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pauls, 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 Pauls.
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 Pauls:
- 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 Pauls, 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 from Point A (ie- Pauls) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |