Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Appledale during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> We believe that Appledale had a post office at one time. We have done a cursory search and haven't been able to find any evidence that the community 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 Appledale (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 Appledale. 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 Appledale:
- Websites specific to British Columbia
- Cemetery Information and Directories for British Columbia
Cemeteries Near Appledale ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Appledale.
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 Appledale covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Appledale, with the one closest to Appledale listed first.
- Nelson Memorial Park
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Nelson Memorial Park is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Nelson.
- The Nelson Memorial Park has also been known as:
- Nelson Municipal Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Nelson Memorial Park
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2293661 <2>
- Shoreacres Doukhobor Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Krestova Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Pass Creek Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Kinnaird Memorial Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- The Kinnaird Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
- Castelgar Municipal Cemetery
- Kinnaird Park Memorial Cemetery
- Park Memorial Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kinnaird Memorial Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2264684 <2>
- Ootischenia Doukhobour Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Fruitvale Memorial Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Fruitvale Memorial Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Fruitvale.
- The Fruitvale Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
- Fruitvale Municipal Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fruitvale Memorial Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2329308 <2>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Appledale. See our List of 1890's Communities around Appledale.
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Province of British Columbia: https://www.gov.bc.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 Appledale and then turned west". While Appledale could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Appledale 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 Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller 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 Appledale 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 British Columbia community named Appledale. |
| <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. |