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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 Parkers Corners (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 Parkers Corners. 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 Parkers Corners ...

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 have occurred.

  • A typical abbreviation for Parkers Corners: Parkers Cors.
  • While the name of this community is Parkers Corners, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Parkers Corners may originally have been Parker's Corners.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Parkers Corners might be written as Parker Corners.

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 doctors and 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.

Parkers Corners is located in Livingston County.

To see how the shape of Michigan's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Livingston County: Genesee, Ingham, Jackson, Oakland, Shiawassee & Washtenaw.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Parkers Corners ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Parkers Corners.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Eisele Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Eisele Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Eisele Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Munsell Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Munsell Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Munsell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Loree Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Loree Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Loree Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Wright Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wright Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Wright Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Briggs Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • North Stockbridge Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the North Stockbridge Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the North Stockbridge Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Plainfield Village Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Plainfield Village Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Plainfield Village Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Greene Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Greene Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Greene Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Paige Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Paige Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Paige Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Coffery Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Coffery Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Coffery Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Harford Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Harford Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Harford Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Alchin Farm Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Alchin Farm Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Alchin Farm Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Continue List   (342 more) ...
    • Lakeside Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lakeside Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lakeside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Gilkes Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gilkes Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gilkes Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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.<5>

While we didn't find Parkers Corners in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Parkers Corners.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Parkers Corners ...

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 133 newspapers that have been published in the area around Parkers Corners.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Parkers Corners, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Parkers Corners.

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 Parkers Corners:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Parkers Corners. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Livingston County: www.co.livingston.mi.us/

The official website for State of Michigan: https://www.michigan.gov/

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>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>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 Parkers Corners, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<6>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- Parkers Corners) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Parkers Corners. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.5679, Longitude: -84.1131    









 

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