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A visit to the God's Acre 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 God's Acre Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The God's Acre Cemetery (FG ID #2506609)

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 God's Acre Cemetery ...

We are using the following GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for the God's Acre Cemetery

Lat:   52.9853°   (52° 59' 7")

Lon:   -111.5284°   (-111° 31' 42")

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 helpful 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 God's Acre 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 God's Acre 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 16 communities are within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2> of the God's Acre Cemetery.

    We've listed the following communities based on their distance from God's Acre Cemetery, with the nearest first.

    • Jarrow
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jarrow
    • Kinsella
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kinsella came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinsella
    • Viking
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Viking came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viking
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Viking <4>
    • Irma
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Sedgewick
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Lougheed
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Killam
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Hardisty
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Fabyan
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fabyan
    • Minburn
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minburn
    • Strome
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strome
    • Innisfree
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Continue List   (4 more) ...
      • Bellshill
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Mannville
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Ranfurly
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ranfurly
      • Wainwright
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)

    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 15 that are within 29 miles [46.7 km]<2> of the God's Acre Cemetery.<5>

    We've listed the following cemeteries based on their distance from God's Acre Cemetery, with the nearest first.

    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 God's Acre Cemetery:

    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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the God's Acre Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 52.9853, Longitude: -111.5284    
    <3>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.
    <4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
    <5>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.









 

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