Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

Although we found mention of Eastburg during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Eastburg 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 Eastburg (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 Eastburg. 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 start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Eastburg:

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 Eastburg ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Eastburg.

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

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

Manola Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Manola Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Manola.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Manola Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2382611 <2>
St. Wolodymyr Greek Orthodox Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Wolodymyr Greek Orthodox Cemetery
Hazel Bluff United Church Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- The Hazel Bluff United Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- Hazel Bluff Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hazel Bluff United Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2307641 <2>
Westlock Town Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- The Westlock Town Cemetery has also been known as:
- Westlock Town Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Westlock Town Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2353171 <2>
Forest Hill Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- The Forest Hill Cemetery has also been known as:
- Busby Public Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Forest Hill Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2326570 <2>
St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery
Barrhead Community Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- The Barrhead Community Cemetery has also been known as:
- Anglican Cemetery
- Barrhead Municipal Cemetery
- East Lawn Cemetery
- Eastlawn United Church Cemetery
- St. Anne's RC Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Barrhead Community Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2287812 <2>
St. Luke's Anglican of Sion Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Luke's Anglican of Sion Cemetery
Sion United Church Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sion United Church Cemetery
Epiphany Lutheran of Sion Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Epiphany Lutheran of Sion Cemetery
Our Lady of Lourdes Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Our Lady of Lourdes Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2382472 <2>
Belvedere Community Church / All Saints Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Belvedere Community Church / All Saints Cemetery is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<3> to the north of Barrhead.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Belvedere Community Church / All Saints Cemetery
Continue List (18 more) ...
- Christ Lutheran Church Cemetery
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Christ Lutheran Church Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2343453 <2>
- Poynter Memorial Cemetery
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Poynter Memorial Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2417034 <2>
- St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic (RC) Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  - To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic (RC) Cemetery is located 9 miles [14.5 km]<3> to the west of Neerlandia.
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic (RC) Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2388677 <2>

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

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 south past Eastburg and then turned west". While Eastburg could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Eastburg 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Eastburg 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 Eastburg.
<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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Eastburg) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Eastburg. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 54.0720, Longitude: -114.0768