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 Red Beach Landing (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 Red Beach Landing. 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 Red Beach Landing ...
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.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Red Beach Landing: Red Bch. Lndg. (or less commonly used: Red Bch. Lndng.)
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 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.
Red Beach Landing is located in Washington 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 Washington County: Aroostook, Hancock & Penobscot.
Below are the counties that are near Red Beach Landing. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Red Beach Landing:
- Washington County (The home county of Red Beach Landing)
- The following are listed by their distance from Red Beach Landing, with the one closest to Red Beach Landing listed first.
- Grand Lake Stream
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Grand Lake Stream Plantation
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Grand Lake Stream Plantation is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Lake Stream Plantation
- Population from the 2020 Census: 105 people
- Princeton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Crawford
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Crawford is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crawford
- Population from the 2020 Census: 97 people
- Alexander
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Baileyville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Wesley
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Waite
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Waite is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waite
- Population from the 2020 Census: 96 people
- Woodland
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Woodland is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodland
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,141 people
- Talmadge
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Talmadge is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talmadge
- Population from the 2020 Census: 62 people
- Meddybemps
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Cooper
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Cooper is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooper
- Population from the 2020 Census: 146 people
- Penobscot County
- The following are listed by their distance from Red Beach Landing, with the one closest to Red Beach Landing listed first.
- Lakeville
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Lakeville is located in Penobscot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 100 people
- Carroll
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Carroll is located in Penobscot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carroll
- Population from the 2020 Census: 145 people
- Carroll has also been known as:
- Carroll Plantation
- South Springfield
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- South Springfield is located in Penobscot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Springfield
- Springfield
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Red Beach Landing, see our County-by-County Page for Red Beach Landing.
Cemeteries Near Red Beach Landing ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Red Beach Landing.
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 Red Beach Landing - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Red Beach Landing covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Red Beach Landing, with the one closest to Red Beach Landing listed first.
- Lakeview Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- St. Annes Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Princeton Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Old Crawford Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Scotch Ridge Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Milltown Catholic Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- St. Stephen Rural Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Calais Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Calais Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Old Ridge United Church of Canada Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Moores Mills Annex Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Moores Mills Rural Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moores Mills Rural Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Moores Mills Rural Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Moores Mills (NB).
- The Moores Mills Rural Cemetery has also been known as:
- Moores Mill Cemetery
- Moores Mills Cemetery
- Moores Mills Old Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2208955 <2>
- Continue List (18 more) ...
- St. David Heritage Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Oak Bay Rural Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Dennysville Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 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 Red Beach Landing in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Red Beach Landing.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Red Beach Landing, with the one closest to Red Beach Landing listed first.
- Grand Lake Stream
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Crawford
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Crawford is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crawford
- Population from the 2020 Census: 97 people
- Princeton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Alexander
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Wesley
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Baileyville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Waite
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Waite is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waite
- Population from the 2020 Census: 96 people
- Cooper
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Cooper is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooper
- Population from the 2020 Census: 146 people
- Meddybemps
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Baring
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Baring is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baring
- Population from the 2020 Census: 239 people
- Baring has also been known as:
- Baring Plantation
- Milltown
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Milltown is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milltown
- Topsfield
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Topsfield is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Topsfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 227 people
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Northfield
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Northfield is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 142 people
- Calais
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Charlotte
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Charlotte is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charlotte
- Population from the 2020 Census: 320 people
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Red Beach Landing. See our List of 1890's Communities around Red Beach Landing.
Newspapers Published in Red Beach Landing ...
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 9 newspapers that have been published in the area around Red Beach Landing.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Red Beach Landing, 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 Red Beach Landing.
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 Red Beach Landing:
- Websites specific to Maine
- Pages specific to Washington 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 Red Beach Landing, 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- Red Beach Landing) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |