Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

Although we found mention of Dowling during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Dowling was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..

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 Dowling (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 Dowling. 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 begin with 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 information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Dowling:

Websites specific to Alberta
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search

Cemetery Information and Directories for Alberta
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Alberta
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Alberta
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Alberta
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Alberta

Cemeteries Near Dowling ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dowling.

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 Dowling covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

St. Peter's Lutheran Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Peter's Lutheran Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2579731 <2>
Hanna Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hanna Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2272129 <2>
Craigmyle Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Craigmyle Cemetery
Endiang Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Endiang Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2453178 <2>
St. Mark Lutheran Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Mark Lutheran Cemetery is located 7 miles [11.3 km]<3> to the southeast of Craigmyle.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Mark Lutheran Cemetery
Delia Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Delia Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2216194 <2>
Byemoor Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Byemoor Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Province of Alberta: https://www.alberta.ca/

Footnotes ...

<1>	If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went north past Dowling and then turned east". While Dowling could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Dowling as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Dowling could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. Since confusion between is common, we searched and weren't able to find another Alberta community named Dowling.
<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>	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- Dowling) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Dowling. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 51.7786, Longitude: -111.9894