THOSE PLACES THURSDAY ~ Towns or roads in Michigan using the name GOULD

GOULD Rd. sign in Bruce Township, Macomb Co., Michigan

Ever curious about my maiden name, I thought I would find out how many places in Michigan have Gould in their name.

I’ve always known about Gould Rd. in Macomb County, Michigan.  I’ve been on the road during a genealogy road trip and I photographed the street sign.  I’ve even contacted the County of Macomb and tried to find out who the road was named after.  So far, no luck with that.

Since my Gould family lived in Armada, Macomb, Michigan it’s a curiosity as to whether this road could have been named for them.  The burial location of immediate family related to these Goulds is at Rose Hill Cemetery (a place I’ve also been), and is 1.6 miles from Gould Rd.

(All screenshots shown here are courtesy of Google Maps)

Gould Rd. near Rose Hill Cemetery where many of my ancestors are buried

This past week I discovered there is a GOULD City in Upper Michigan.  I never knew that.  It looks very rural.  I would love to visit.  I’ve never been to Upper Michigan and it’s high on my list of places to go.

Here’s the location of Gould City and also an aerial view.
There’s even a road in Gould City named S. Gould City Road.



And to my surprise, when I conducted a Google search of Detroit, Michigan, looking for the Gould name, I located a Gould Street.  It’s down along the Detroit River, not too far from Ambassador Bridge.  And, it’s only 12.9 miles, a 20 minute drive from where my grandparents, Harry & Marie Gould lived, at 14520 Asbury Park.

This has been a fun exercise.  I learned things I didn’t know before, and that’s always a good thing.
 
Now to find out, if possible, who these streets and roads and cities are named after.  Are they related to me?  I know here in my small town of Ramona, CA., we have many roads named after people who once settled here and had an impact on our town.
 
Have you ever looked for places named after your family?  I’d love to hear about it.

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Happy hunting,
Michigan Girl

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MAPPY MONDAY–Using Legacy 8 to Map Your Family

I thought I would look at the mapping feature in Legacy 8 today.

With this feature you can see the migration of your family from one country to another, or one city to another.
 
To use the “Map Family” feature you can go to the View tab and then click on Map Family.  I personally have the feature saved on “My Toolbar” so that I can quickly find it.

(CLICK ON ANY IMAGE TO ENLARGE IT)


Let’s take a look at my maternal great grandfather, Andrew Charles Milne.  Here is the Family View for Andrew and his Individual Information screen.  You can see that I have several Events for him.  Because those events contain locations, those locations will show up on a map.

FAMILY VIEW

INDIVIDUAL VIEW

Andrew was born in Scotland, came over to North America via Quebec and moved to Detroit.  However, somewhere along the way he and his wife, Susan also lived in Ohio as one of their children died there.

When I click on the Map Family icon and zoom in just a bit this is what I see.



Now I will zoom into the locations in Michigan and Ohio.



As you can see when I hover over the red pins that are on the map Legacy tells me exactly what event occurred in that location.  In this case it was the death of a child, Margaret E. “Etta” Milne on 26 Jan 1890, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.

If you have not taken advantage of this valuable feature in Legacy, why not give it a try?

PLEASE contact me if you think you might be related, even remotely, to anyone mentioned in this blog.

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Happy hunting,

Michigan Girl

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