Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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 Shaughnessy (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 Shaughnessy. 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.

Cemeteries Near Shaughnessy ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Shaughnessy.

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

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

Royal View Memorial Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Royal View Memorial Cemetery
Huntsville Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Huntsville Cemetery
- The Huntsville Cemetery has also been known as:
- Iron Springs Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2424500 <1>
Albion Ridge Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Albion Ridge Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Albion Ridge Cemetery is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<2> to the southeast of Picture Butte.
St. Patrick Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Patrick Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2228124 <1>
Archmount Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Archmount Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Archmount Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of Lethbridge.
- The Archmount Cemetery has also been known as:
- Archmount Memorial Garden
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2146605 <1>
Mountain View Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mountain View Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Mountain View Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Lethbridge.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2146604 <1>
Bowville Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bowville Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2424514 <1>
Orton Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Orton Cemetery
Union Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Union Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Union Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Fort MacLeod.
- The Union Cemetery has also been known as:
- Ft. MacLeod
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1968318 <1>
Holy Cross Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Cross Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Holy Cross Cemetery is located outside and to the northeast of Fort MacLeod.
- The Holy Cross Cemetery has also been known as:
- Ft. MacLeod Holy Cross Cemetery
- Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2427812 <1>
Barnwell Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Barnwell Cemetery
Temple Hill Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Temple Hill Cemetery
- The Temple Hill Cemetery has also been known as:
- Raymond Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2248933 <1>
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- Stirling Memorial Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stirling Memorial Cemetery
  - The Stirling Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
  - Stirling Cemetery
- Enchant Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Enchant Cemetery
- Alston Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Alston Cemetery
  - Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Alston Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
  - To give a relative sense of its location, the Alston Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<2> to the southeast of Carmangay.

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy 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 information is open to everyone.

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

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Shaughnessy. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

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 'straight-line' (or 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- Shaughnessy) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Shaughnessy. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 49.8507, Longitude: -112.8414
<3>	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.