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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 Masons (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 Masons. 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.

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 northeast 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 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 east 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.

Masons is located in Coos County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Coos County: Oxford (ME), Carroll, Grafton & Essex (VT).

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

  • Coos County     (The home county of Masons)
  • Grafton County
  • Oxford County (ME)
    • Upton
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Upton is located in Oxford County (ME)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 110 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Upton <1>
  • Caledonia County (VT)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Masons, with the one closest to Masons listed first.
    • Newark
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Newark is located in Caledonia County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newark
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 589 people
    • Burke
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Burke is located in Caledonia County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burke
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,668 people
    • Burke
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • East Burke
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • West Burke
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Kirby
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Kirby is located in Caledonia County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirby
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 489 people
    • Egypt
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Sutton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Sutton is located in Caledonia County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sutton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 996 people
    • Lyndon
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Lyndon is located in Caledonia County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyndon
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,650 people
    • Lyndonville
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Summit
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Lyndon
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Wheelock
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Essex County (VT)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Masons, with the one closest to Masons listed first.
    • Maidstone
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Maidstone is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maidstone
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 193 people
    • Brunswick Springs
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Brunswick
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Brunswick is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brunswick
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 101 people
    • Bloomfield
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Guildhall
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Granby
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Granby is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granby
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 82 people
    • Bloomfield
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Bloomfield is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 234 people
    • Ferdinand
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Ferdinand is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ferdinand
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 32 people
    • Guildhall
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Guildhall is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guildhall
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 245 people
    • Granby
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • East Haven
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • East Haven is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Haven
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 294 people
    • East Brighton
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Gallup Mills
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Orleans County (VT)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Masons, with the one closest to Masons listed first.
    • East Charleston
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Westmore
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Westmore is located in Orleans County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westmore
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 312 people
    • Charleston
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Charleston is located in Orleans County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charleston
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 984 people
    • Morgan
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Morgan is located in Orleans County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgan
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 695 people
    • Holland
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Holland is located in Orleans County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 608 people
    • West Charleston
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Holland
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Barton
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Barton is located in Orleans County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,455 people
    • Brownington
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Brownington is located in Orleans County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownington
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 955 people
    • Brownington
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Barton
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Barton is located in Orleans County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 633 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Barton <1>
    • Glover
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Brownington Village
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Brownington Village is located in Orleans County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownington Village

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

Cemeteries Near Masons ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Masons.

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 Masons - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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 Masons in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Masons.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Masons ...

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 35 newspapers that have been published in the area around Masons.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Masons, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Masons.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to 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 Masons:

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>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- Masons) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Masons, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.