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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 Suomi (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 Suomi. 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.

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 Suomi:

Cemeteries Near Suomi ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Suomi.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Nolalu Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Hymers Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Stanley Hill Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Mineral Center Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mineral Center Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mineral Center Cemetery
  • Pagan Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pagan Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pagan Cemetery
  • Sunshine - Finmark Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Sunshine - Finmark Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sunshine - Finmark Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<4> to the southeast of Sunshine.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunshine - Finmark Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2609865 <1>
  • Trinity Lutheran Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Trinity Lutheran Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Trinity Lutheran Cemetery
  • Old Settlers Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old Settlers Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Settlers Cemetery
  • Dog River Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Dog River Cemetery is located
    • The Dog River Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Dog River Community Cemetery
    • Dog River Indian Cemetery
    • Kaministiquia Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dog River Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2568674 <1>

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Suomi. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Suomi) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Suomi. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.2397, Longitude: -89.9861    









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 10 Mar 2024