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 Cusino (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 Cusino. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.
Cusino is located in Schoolcraft County.
To see how the shape of Michigan's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Schoolcraft County: Alger, Delta, Luce & Mackinac.
Below are the counties that are near Cusino. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Cusino:
- Schoolcraft County (The home county of Cusino)
- The following are listed by their distance from Cusino, with the one closest to Cusino listed first.
- Creighton
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Creighton is located in Schoolcraft County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creighton
- Walsh
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Walsh is located in Schoolcraft County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walsh
- Steuben
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Steuben is located in Schoolcraft County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steuben
- Seney
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Germfask
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Alger County
- The following are listed by their distance from Cusino, with the one closest to Cusino listed first.
- Melstrand
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Melstrand is located in Alger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melstrand
- Shingleton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Doty
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Doty is located in Alger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doty
- Indian Town
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Indian Town is located in Alger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Town
- Juniper
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Juniper is located in Alger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juniper
- Wetmore
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Munising
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Munising Junction
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Munising Junction is located in Alger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Munising Junction
- Au Train
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Grand Marais
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Slapneck ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Slapneck is located in Alger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slapneck
- Chatham
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Eben Junction
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Luce County
- The following are listed by their distance from Cusino, with the one closest to Cusino listed first.
- Danaher
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Danaher is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danaher
- Carpenter Landing
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Carpenter Landing is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carpenter Landing
- Laketon
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Laketon is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laketon
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Cusino, see our County-by-County Page for Cusino.
Cemeteries Near Cusino ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cusino.
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 Cusino - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Cusino covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Cusino, with the one closest to Cusino listed first.
- Reilly's Graves
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Maple Grove Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Munising Twp. Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Grand Island Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Indian Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Boot Hill Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Byers Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Hiawatha Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Holy Rosary Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Au Train Twp. Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Pine Grove Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Germfask Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (7 more) ...
- Rose Hill Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Old Germfask Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Trudell Family Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
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 Cusino in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Cusino.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Cusino, with the one closest to Cusino listed first.
- Creighton
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Creighton is located in Schoolcraft County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creighton
- Shingleton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Munising
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Seney
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Au Train
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Grand Marais
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Germfask
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Rock River
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Rock River is located in Alger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock River
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Cusino. See our List of 1890's Communities around Cusino.
Newspapers Published in Cusino ...
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 16 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cusino.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cusino, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cusino.
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 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 Cusino:
- Websites specific to Michigan
- Pages specific to Schoolcraft County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Michigan
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 Cusino, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Cusino) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |