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 Presque Isle Estates (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 Presque Isle Estates. 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 Presque Isle Estates ...
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.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Presque Isle Estates: Presque Isle Ests.
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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Presque Isle Estates is located in Presque Isle 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 Presque Isle County: Alpena, Cheboygan & Montmorency.
Below are the counties that are near Presque Isle Estates. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Presque Isle Estates:
- Presque Isle County (The home county of Presque Isle Estates)
- The following are listed by their distance from Presque Isle Estates, with the one closest to Presque Isle Estates listed first.
- Rogers City
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Calcite
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Calcite is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calcite
- Moltke
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Moltke is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moltke
- Hagensville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Hagensville is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hagensville
- Liske
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Liske is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liske
- Hawks
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Hawks is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawks
- Metz
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Metz is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Metz
- Posen
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Millersburg
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Ocqueoc
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Ocqueoc is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocqueoc
- Huron Beach
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Huron Beach is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron Beach
- Polaski
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Polaski is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Polaski
- Black Lake Bluffs
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Black Lake Bluffs is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Lake Bluffs
- Alpena County
- The following are listed by their distance from Presque Isle Estates, with the one closest to Presque Isle Estates listed first.
- Long Rapids
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Long Rapids is located in Alpena County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Rapids
- Cathro
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Cathro is located in Alpena County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cathro
- Lachine
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Flanders
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Flanders is located in Alpena County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flanders
- Herron
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Herron is located in Alpena County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herron
- McHarg
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- McHarg is located in Alpena County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McHarg
- Cheboygan County
- The following are listed by their distance from Presque Isle Estates, with the one closest to Presque Isle Estates listed first.
- Black Lake
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Black Lake is located in Cheboygan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Lake
- Tower
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Tower is located in Cheboygan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tower
- Fingerboard Corner
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Fingerboard Corner is located in Cheboygan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fingerboard Corner
- Montmorency County
- The following are listed by their distance from Presque Isle Estates, with the one closest to Presque Isle Estates listed first.
- Royston
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Royston is located in Montmorency County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royston
- Hillman
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Canada Creek Ranch
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Canada Creek Ranch is located in Montmorency County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canada Creek Ranch
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Presque Isle Estates, see our County-by-County Page for Presque Isle Estates.
Cemeteries Near Presque Isle Estates ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Presque Isle Estates.
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 Presque Isle Estates - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Presque Isle Estates covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Presque Isle Estates, with the one closest to Presque Isle Estates listed first.
- Rogers City Memorial Park
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Belknap Twp. Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Mt. Calvary Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- St. James' Lutheran Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- St. Michael's Lutheran Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- St. John's Hagenville Lutheran Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Moltke Twp. Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Bismarck Twp. Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Faith Lutheran Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Faith Lutheran Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Faith Lutheran Cemetery is located in Hawks.
- The Faith Lutheran Cemetery has also been known as:
- Faith Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #499 <2>
- Hope Lutheran Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- New German Lutheran Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Continue List (43 more) ...
- St. Dominic's Catholic Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Metz Twp. Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Ocqueoc Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 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 Presque Isle Estates in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Presque Isle Estates.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Presque Isle Estates, with the one closest to Presque Isle Estates listed first.
- Rogers City
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Hagensville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Hagensville is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hagensville
- Posen
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Ocqueoc
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Ocqueoc is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocqueoc
- Onaway
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Presque Isle
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Bolton
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Bolton is located in Alpena County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolton
- Long Rapids
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Long Rapids is located in Alpena County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Rapids
- Bell ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Bell is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell
- Hillman
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Flanders
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Flanders is located in Alpena County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flanders
- Manning
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Manning is located in Cheboygan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manning
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Presque Isle Estates. See our List of 1890's Communities around Presque Isle Estates.
Newspapers Published in Presque Isle Estates ...
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 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Presque Isle Estates.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Presque Isle Estates, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Presque Isle Estates.
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 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 Presque Isle Estates:
- Websites specific to Michigan
- Pages specific to Presque Isle County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Alpena County
- Cheboygan County
- Montmorency County
- 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 Presque Isle Estates, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Presque Isle Estates) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |