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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 Albion (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 Albion. 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.

Newspapers Published in Albion ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Albion.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Albion, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Albion.

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 Albion:

Cemeteries Near Albion ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Albion.

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

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

  • Ft. Langley Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Maple Ridge Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Murrayville Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Murrayville Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Murrayville.
    • The Murrayville Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Historic Murrayville Cemetery
    • Langley Prairie Cemetery
    • Odd Fellows Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Murrayville Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2136809 <2>
  • Langley Lawn Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Mt. Lehman Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Surrey Centre Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Surrey Centre Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Cloverdale.
    • The Surrey Centre Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Christ Church Cemetery
    • Surrey City Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Surrey Centre Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2098350 <2>
  • Aberdeen Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Port Coquitlam Municipal Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Valley View Memorial Gardens
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Hazelmere Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Gardens of Gethsemani Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Hatzic Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (45 more) ...
    • Victory Memorial Park
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Victory Memorial Park is a very large cemetery that is located 5 miles [8 km]<1> to the north of Surrey.
      • The Victory Memorial Park has also been known as:
      • Veterans Memorial Park
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Victory Memorial Park
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2226367 <2>
    • Beth Tikvah Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Beth Tikvah Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<1> to the north of Surrey.
      • The Beth Tikvah Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Beth Tikvah Jewish Cemetery
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beth Tikvah Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2443242 <2>
    • Sunnyside Lawn Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)

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

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

The official website for Province of British Columbia: https://www.gov.bc.ca/

Footnotes ...

<1>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- Albion) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Albion. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 49.1834, Longitude: -122.5569    
<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.









 

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