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 McLeods Corner (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 McLeods Corner. 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 McLeods Corner ...
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.
- A typical abbreviation for McLeods Corner: McLeods Cor. (or less commonly used: McLeods Crn.)
- While the name of this community is McLeods Corner, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So McLeods Corner may originally have been McLeod's Corner.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case McLeods Corner might be written as McLeod Corner.
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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
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 south 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.
McLeods Corner is located in Luce 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 Luce County: Alger, Chippewa, Mackinac & Schoolcraft.
Below are the counties that are near McLeods Corner. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to McLeods Corner:
- Luce County (The home county of McLeods Corner)
- The following are listed by their distance from McLeods Corner, with the one closest to McLeods Corner listed first.
- Lencel
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Lencel is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lencel
- Roberts Corner
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Roberts Corner is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberts Corner
- Newberry
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Dollarville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Dollarville is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dollarville
- McMillan
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Helmer
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Helmer is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helmer
- Carpenter Landing
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Carpenter Landing is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carpenter Landing
- Laketon
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Laketon is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laketon
- Danaher
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Danaher is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danaher
- Deer Park
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Deer Park is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Park
- Chippewa County
- The following are listed by their distance from McLeods Corner, with the one closest to McLeods Corner listed first.
- Hulbert
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Hulbert is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hulbert
- Eckerman
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Trout Lake
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Strongs
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Strongs is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strongs
- Emerson
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Emerson is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emerson
- Dick
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Dick is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dick
- Paradise
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Shelldrake
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Shelldrake is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shelldrake
- Mackinac County
- The following are listed by their distance from McLeods Corner, with the one closest to McLeods Corner listed first.
- Fiborn ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Fiborn is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fiborn
- Fiborn has also been known as:
- Fiborn Quarry
- Rexton
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Rexton is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rexton
- Naubinway
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Engadine
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Epoufette
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Epoufette is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Epoufette
- Curtis
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Gould City
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Ozark
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Ozark is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ozark
- Kenneth
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Kenneth is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenneth
- Huntspur
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Huntspur is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntspur
- Huntspur has also been known as:
- Hunt Spur
- Schoolcraft County
- The following are listed by their distance from McLeods Corner, with the one closest to McLeods Corner listed first.
- Germfask
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Seney
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to McLeods Corner, see our County-by-County Page for McLeods Corner.
Cemeteries Near McLeods Corner ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of McLeods Corner.
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 McLeods Corner - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for McLeods Corner covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from McLeods Corner, with the one closest to McLeods Corner listed first.
- Forest Home Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Maplewood Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Hulbert Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Caffey Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Naubinway Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- East Lakefield Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Old East Lakefield Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Sandtown Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Engadine Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Columbus Twp. Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Epoufette Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (17 more) ...
- Lakeview Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Lakeview Cemetery is located outside and to the southeast of Trout Lake.
- The Lakeview Cemetery has also been known as:
- Trout Lake Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #908 <3>
- Colbert Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Curtis Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 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.<4>
While we didn't find McLeods Corner in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of McLeods Corner.
These communities are listed based on their distance from McLeods Corner, with the one closest to McLeods Corner listed first.
- Soo Junction
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Soo Junction is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soo Junction
- Newberry
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Dollarville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Dollarville is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dollarville
- Gilchrist
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Gilchrist is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilchrist
- Naubinway
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- McMillan
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Eckerman
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Trout Lake
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Epoufette
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Epoufette is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Epoufette
- Gould City
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Corinne
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Corinne is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corinne
- Ozark
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Ozark is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ozark
- Continue List (5 more) ...
- Emerson
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Emerson is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emerson
- Brevort
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Brevort is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brevort
- Seney
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around McLeods Corner. See our List of 1890's Communities around McLeods Corner.
Newspapers Published in McLeods Corner ...
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 5 newspapers that have been published in the area around McLeods Corner.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of McLeods Corner, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for McLeods Corner.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we start 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 McLeods Corner:
- Websites specific to Michigan
- Pages specific to Luce County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Chippewa County
- Mackinac County
- Schoolcraft County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Michigan
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | 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 McLeods Corner, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <5> | 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 from Point A (ie- McLeods Corner) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |