A visit to the Forest Home Cemetery ...
Introduction ...
Since our focus is on geography, we don't have burial or interment information. Nor do we have any contact information for the Forest Home Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The Forest Home Cemetery (FG ID #2191704)
Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. Without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery was actually buried elsewhere.
We discovered that his burial had been refused at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.
Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.
The Location of the Forest Home Cemetery ...
We are using the following GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for the Forest Home Cemetery
Lat: 52.6786° (52° 40' 42")
Lon: -113.6086° (-113° 36' 30")
Location using the Alberta Township System:
NE-06-043-25-W4 (Quarter-Section-Township-Range-Meridian)
Or the Northeast Quarter of Section 06, Township 043, Range 25, West of the 4th Meridian
Establishment of the Forest Home Cemetery ...
The Forest Home Cemetery was established in 1901.
Websites to help with your research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 websites are open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Forest Home Cemetery:
- Pages specific to Alberta:
- Cemetery Information and Directories:
- About the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church ...
- Although we don't have a link to the Forest Home Cemetery
itself, you might be curious about the African Methodist Episcopal Church. See their website at:
- The African Methodist Episcopal Church
List of neighboring communities ...
The following 19 communities are within 20 miles [32.2 km]<2> of the Forest Home Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities based on their distance from Forest Home Cemetery, with the nearest first.
- Ponoka
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Morningside
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Morningside came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morningside
- Hobbema
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobbema
- Crestomere
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- College Heights
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for College Heights came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for College Heights
- Chigwell
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Chigwell. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chigwell
- Rosedale Valley
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rosedale Valley came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosedale Valley
- Lacombe
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Clive
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Clive came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clive
- Navarre
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Navarre
- Kasha
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kasha
- Tees
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tees
- Continue List (7 more) ...
- Gull Lake
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Falun
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falun
- Blackfalds
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Wetaskiwin
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Bentley
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Red Deer Junction
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Joffre
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joffre
For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.
List of nearby cemeteries ...
Based on our list of cemeteries, we know of 22 that are within 25 miles [40.2 km]<2> of the Forest Home Cemetery.<6>
We've listed the following cemeteries based on their distance from Forest Home Cemetery, with the nearest first.
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Dakota United Church Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Fairview Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Fairview Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Lacombe.
- The Fairview Cemetery has also been known as:
- Lacombe Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairview Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2239693 <1>
- Earlville Rutherford Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Louis Bull Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Tees Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Calumet Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- St. Michael RC Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Emmaus Lutheran Church Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Blackfalds Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- St. Peter's Lutheran Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (10 more) ...
- Dalby Swedish Lutheran Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Woody Nook Christian Reformed Church Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- New Sweden Mission Church Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Wetaskiwin Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- The Wetaskiwin Cemetery has also been known as:
- Old Wetaskiwin Cemetery
- Wetashiwin Cemetery
- Wetaskiwin City Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wetaskiwin Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2144913 <1>
- Bentley Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Bentley Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of Bentley.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bentley Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2414665 <1>
- Nashville Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Wetaskiwin Memorial
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Bentley Seventh Day Adventist Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Bentley Colony Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Bentley Colony Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<2> to the northwest of Bentley.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bentley Colony Cemetery
- Peace Hills Zion Lutheran Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...
Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the Forest Home Cemetery:
- Referenced Find-A-Grave Entry: #2191704
- Referenced Books / Documents ...
- Alberta Sources - Cemeteries and other surname sources (Feb. 2007)
- Written by: Alberta Genealogical Society and other researchers, societies and groups
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Province of Alberta: https://www.alberta.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> | 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 from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the Forest Home Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 52.6786, Longitude: -113.6086 |
<3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
<4> | If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database. |
<5> | 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. |
<6> | While we have an extensive database of cemeteries (with over 200,000 entries), you can be assured that it's not complete and our list will be missing cemeteries. |