Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Hydro during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Hydro was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it 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 Hydro (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 Hydro. 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 Hydro ...
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 25 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hydro.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hydro, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hydro.
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 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 Hydro:
- Websites specific to British Columbia
- Cemetery Information and Directories for British Columbia
Cemeteries Near Hydro ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hydro.
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 Hydro covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Hydro, with the one closest to Hydro listed first.
- Ft. Langley Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Maple Ridge Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Murrayville Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 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 <3>
- Langley Lawn Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Mt. Lehman Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Aberdeen Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 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 <3>
- Hazelmere Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Valley View Memorial Gardens
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Gardens of Gethsemani Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Port Coquitlam Municipal Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Blaine Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Blaine Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Blaine (WA).
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Blaine Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #76716 <3>
- Continue List (46 more) ...
- Hatzic Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- 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]<2> 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 <3>
- 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 Hydro. See our List of 1890's Communities around Hydro.
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 Hydro and then turned west". While Hydro could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Hydro 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Hydro 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 Hydro. |
<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 drawn from Point A (ie- Hydro) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hydro. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 49.1667, Longitude: -122.5500 |
<3> | 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. |