Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Mission Beach during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Mission Beach 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 Mission Beach (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 Mission Beach. 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.
Name Variations for Mission Beach ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Mission Beach: Mission Bch.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
Cemeteries Near Mission Beach ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mission Beach.
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 Mission Beach covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Mission Beach, with the one closest to Mission Beach listed first.
- Fisherton Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fisherton Cemetery
- The Fisherton Cemetery has also been known as:
- Fisherton Community Cemetery
- Fisherton / Rundle's Mission Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2580726 <2>
- St. Stephen's Lutheran Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Whitsuntide Russo Orthodox Church Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Ressurection Park Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Bunker Hill Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Dalby Swedish Lutheran Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Breton Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Mountclare Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Calmar Community Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- St. Francis of Assisi Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Francis of Assisi Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Francis of Assisi Cemetery is located in Saint Francis.
- The St. Francis of Assisi Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2549478 <2>
- Poplar Valley Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Hoadley Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (20 more) ...
- Emmaus Lutheran Church Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Wiesenthal Baptist Church Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Peace Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Mission Beach. See our List of 1890's Communities around Mission Beach.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Mission Beach:
- Websites specific to Alberta
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Alberta
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 Mission Beach and then turned east". While Mission Beach could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Mission Beach 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 Mission Beach 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 Mission Beach. |
| <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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Mission Beach) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mission Beach. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 53.0833, Longitude: -114.1167 |