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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 Lac du Flambeau (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 Lac du Flambeau. 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 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.

Lac du Flambeau is located in Vilas County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Vilas County: Gogebic (MI), Iron (MI), Forest, Iron, Oneida & Price.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Lac du Flambeau ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lac du Flambeau.

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 Lac du Flambeau - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Lac du Flambeau, with the one closest to Lac du Flambeau 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.<3>

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

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

  • Woodruff
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Minocqua
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Minocqua is located in Oneida County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minocqua
  • Hazelhurst
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Mercer
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Mercer is located in Iron County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mercer
  • Goodnow
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Goodnow is located in Oneida County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodnow
  • Harshaw
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • McNaughton
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • McNaughton is located in Oneida County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McNaughton
  • Fifield
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Newbold
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Newbold is located in Oneida County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newbold
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Park Falls
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Park Falls is located in Price County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Falls
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,192 people
    • Coolidge ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Coolidge is located in Price County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coolidge
    • Wellington
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Wellington is located in Gogebic County (MI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellington
    • McCord
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • McCord is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCord
    • Hartley
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Hartley is located in Gogebic County (MI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartley
      • Hartley has also been known as:
      • Hartleys
    • Butternut
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Lac du Flambeau ...

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 11 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lac du Flambeau.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lac du Flambeau, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lac du Flambeau.

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 Lac du Flambeau:

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 Lac du Flambeau, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Lac du Flambeau) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.