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 Strongs 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 Strongs 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 Strongs 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 Strongs Corner: Strongs Cor. (or less commonly used: Strongs Crn.)
- While the name of this community is Strongs Corner, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Strongs Corner may originally have been Strong's Corner.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Strongs Corner might be written as Strong 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 doctors and 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.
Strongs Corner is located in Chippewa 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 Chippewa County: Luce & Mackinac.
Below are the counties that are near Strongs Corner. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Strongs Corner:
- Chippewa County (The home county of Strongs Corner)
- The following are listed by their distance from Strongs Corner, with the one closest to Strongs Corner listed first.
- Strongs
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Strongs is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strongs
- Eckerman
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Hulbert
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Hulbert is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hulbert
- Trout Lake
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Dick
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Dick is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dick
- Emerson
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Emerson is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emerson
- Fibre
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Fibre is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fibre
- Dryburg
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Dryburg is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dryburg
- Bay Mills
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Bay Mills is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bay Mills
- Brimley
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Paradise
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Rudyard
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Luce County
- The following are listed by their distance from Strongs Corner, with the one closest to Strongs Corner listed first.
- Lencel
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Lencel is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lencel
- Roberts Corner
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Roberts Corner is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberts Corner
- Newberry
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Dollarville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Dollarville is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dollarville
- Mackinac County
- The following are listed by their distance from Strongs Corner, with the one closest to Strongs Corner listed first.
- Fiborn ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Fiborn is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fiborn
- Fiborn has also been known as:
- Fiborn Quarry
- Ozark
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Ozark is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ozark
- Kenneth
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Kenneth is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenneth
- Rexton
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Rexton is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rexton
- Epoufette
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Epoufette is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Epoufette
- Simmons ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Simmons is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simmons
- Allenville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Allenville is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allenville
- Moran
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Pontchartrain Shores
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Pontchartrain Shores is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pontchartrain Shores
- Naubinway
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Strongs Corner, see our County-by-County Page for Strongs Corner.
Cemeteries Near Strongs Corner ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Strongs 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 Strongs Corner - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Strongs Corner covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Strongs Corner, with the one closest to Strongs Corner listed first.
- Colbert Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Hulbert Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Naomikong Point Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Lakeview Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- 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>
- Dollar Settlement Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Brethren Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Hillcrest Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Caffey Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Mission Hill Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Baptist Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Our Lady of Victory Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Rudyard Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Continue List (31 more) ...
- Old Mission Indian Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Maplewood Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Bayview Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
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 Strongs Corner in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Strongs Corner.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Strongs Corner, with the one closest to Strongs Corner listed first.
- Eckerman
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Trout Lake
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Soo Junction
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Soo Junction is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soo Junction
- Emerson
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Emerson is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emerson
- Ozark
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Ozark is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ozark
- Rudyard
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Bay Mills
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Bay Mills is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bay Mills
- Epoufette
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Epoufette is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Epoufette
- Brevort
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Brevort is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brevort
- Kinross
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Gilchrist
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Gilchrist is located in Mackinac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilchrist
- Moran
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Continue List (5 more) ...
- Newberry
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Dollarville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Dollarville is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dollarville
- Naubinway
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Strongs Corner. See our List of 1890's Communities around Strongs Corner.
Newspapers Published in Strongs 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 Strongs Corner.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Strongs Corner, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Strongs 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 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 Strongs Corner:
- Websites specific to Michigan
- Pages specific to Chippewa County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Luce County
- Mackinac 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 Strongs Corner, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <5> | 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 from Point A (ie- Strongs Corner) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |