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 Rogers City (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 Rogers City. 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 Rogers City ...
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.
While the name of this city is Rogers City, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Rogers City may originally have been Roger's City.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Rogers City might be written as Roger City.
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 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.
Rogers City is located in Presque Isle County and is the County Seat.
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 Rogers City. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Rogers City:
- Presque Isle County (The home county of Rogers City)
- The following are listed by their distance from Rogers City, with the one closest to Rogers City listed first.
- Calcite
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Calcite is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calcite
- Moltke
(5 miles [8 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 south)
- Hagensville is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hagensville
- Liske
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Liske is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liske
- Metz
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Metz is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Metz
- Hawks
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Hawks is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawks
- Posen
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Millersburg
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Ocqueoc
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Ocqueoc is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocqueoc
- Polaski
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Polaski is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Polaski
- Huron Beach
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Huron Beach is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron Beach
- Presque Isle
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Alpena County
- The following are listed by their distance from Rogers City, with the one closest to Rogers City listed first.
- Long Rapids
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Long Rapids is located in Alpena County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Rapids
- Cathro
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Cathro is located in Alpena County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cathro
- Lachine
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Flanders
(24 miles [38.6 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 south)
- McHarg is located in Alpena County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McHarg
- Alpena Junction
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Alpena Junction is located in Alpena County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpena Junction
- Alpena
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Cheboygan County
- The following are listed by their distance from Rogers City, with the one closest to Rogers City listed first.
- Black Lake
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Black Lake is located in Cheboygan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Lake
- Tower
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Tower is located in Cheboygan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tower
- Montmorency County
- The following are listed by their distance from Rogers City, with the one closest to Rogers City 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
(25 miles [40.2 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 Rogers City, see our County-by-County Page for Rogers City.
Cemeteries Near Rogers City ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rogers City.
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 Rogers City - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Rogers City covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Rogers City, with the one closest to Rogers City listed first.
- Rogers City Memorial Park
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Mt. Calvary Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Belknap Twp. Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- St. John's Hagenville Lutheran Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- St. James' Lutheran Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- St. Michael's Lutheran Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Moltke Twp. Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- New German Lutheran Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Bismarck Twp. Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Faith Lutheran Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- 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 <3>
- Hope Lutheran Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (39 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)
- Old Evangelist Lutheran Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
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>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Rogers City had a population of 431 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Rogers City had a population of 2,665 people.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Rogers City, with the one closest to Rogers City listed first.
- Hagensville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Hagensville is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hagensville
- Posen
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Ocqueoc
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Ocqueoc is located in Presque Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocqueoc
- Presque Isle
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Bolton
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Bolton is located in Alpena County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolton
- Onaway
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Long Rapids
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Long Rapids is located in Alpena County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Rapids
- Bell ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 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
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Flanders is located in Alpena County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flanders
- Manning
(27 miles [43.5 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 Rogers City. See our List of 1890's Communities around Rogers City.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Rogers City ...
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 42 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rogers City.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Rogers City. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Rogers City and those printed in the larger area surrounding Rogers City.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<5> of Rogers City.
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 helpful 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 Rogers City:
- 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> | 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 Rogers City, 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- Rogers City) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |