Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Glenemma during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> We believe that Glenemma 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 Glenemma (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 Glenemma. 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 Glenemma ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Glenemma.
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 Glenemma covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Glenemma, with the one closest to Glenemma listed first.
- Hullcar Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Grandview Flats Memorial Gardens
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- G.S. Pelly Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the G.S. Pelly Cemetery
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the G.S. Pelly Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
- Armstrong Spallumcheen Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Armstrong Spallumcheen Cemetery
- The Armstrong Spallumcheen Cemetery has also been known as:
- Armstrong Cemetery
- Armstrong Municipal Cemetery
- Armstrong / Spallumcheen Municipal Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2271558 <2>
- Falkland Pioneer Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Lansdowne Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lansdowne Cemetery
- The Lansdowne Cemetery has also been known as:
- Lansdown Cemetery
- Falkland Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Cliffside Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cliffside Cemetery
- The Cliffside Cemetery has also been known as:
- Cliffside Cemetery
- Enderby Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2295960 <2>
- Vernon Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Vernon Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Vernon Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Vernon.
- The Vernon Cemetery has also been known as:
- Pleasant Valley Cemetery
- Vernon Municipal Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2210182 <2>
- Mt. Ida Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Westwold Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Westwold Cemetery
- The Westwold Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Luke's / Westwold Cemetery
- Coldstream Municipal Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Continue List (10 more) ...
- Mara Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Tappen Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Lumby Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Glenemma. See our List of 1890's Communities around Glenemma.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Glenemma:
- Websites specific to British Columbia
- Cemetery Information and Directories for British Columbia
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 north past Glenemma and then turned east". While Glenemma could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Glenemma 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 Glenemma 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 Glenemma. |
| <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> | 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. |