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 Taber (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 Taber. 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 first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Taber:
- Websites specific to Alberta
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Alberta
Cemeteries Near Taber ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Taber.
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 Taber covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Taber, with the one closest to Taber listed first.
- Taber Memorial Garden Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Taber Memorial Garden Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the north of Taber.
- The Taber Memorial Garden Cemetery has also been known as:
- Taber Cemetery
- Taber Memorial Cemetery
- Taber Memorial Gardens
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Taber Memorial Garden Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2207513 <1>
- Barnwell Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Purple Springs Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Retlaw Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Wrentham Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Westview Cemetery of Grassy Lake
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Grassy Lake Praire View Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Assumption Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Assumption Cemetery is located 7 miles [11.3 km]<2> to the northwest of Grassy Lake.
- The Assumption Cemetery has also been known as:
- Assumption Catholic Cemetery
- Assumption RC Cemetery
- Grassy Lake Catholic Cemetery
- Grassy Lake Praire View Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Assumption Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2214187 <1>
- Huntsville Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Stirling Memorial Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Bluegrass Hutterite Colony Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Bluegrass Hutterite Colony Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Bluegrass Hutterite Colony Cemetery is located 10 miles [16.1 km]<2> to the southwest of Warner.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bluegrass Hutterite Colony Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2597601 <1>
- New Dayton Community Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Burdett Community Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Enchant Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Taber. See our List of 1890's Communities around Taber.
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Taber: www.taber.ca/
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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Taber) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Taber. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 49.7923, Longitude: -112.1446 |
| <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. |