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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 Nelway (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 Nelway. 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 Nelway ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Nelway.

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.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Nelway - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Nelway covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Harvey Grave
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Perkins Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Fruitvale Memorial Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fruitvale Memorial Cemetery
    • 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 Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2329308 <1>
  • Columbia Riverview Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbia Riverview Cemetery
    • The Columbia Riverview Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Knights of Pythias Cemetery
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
  • Forest Home Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Old Trail Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
  • Columbia Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbia Cemetery
    • The Columbia Cemetery has also been known as:
    • City of Rossland Cemetery
    • Rossland Cemetery
    • Sunnyside Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2418748 <1>
  • Mountain View Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
  • Old Northport Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Ootischenia Doukhobour Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Kinnaird Memorial Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinnaird Memorial Cemetery
    • The Kinnaird Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Castelgar Municipal Cemetery
    • Kinnaird Park Memorial Cemetery
    • Park Memorial Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2264684 <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Nelway ...

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 10 newspapers that have been published in the area around Nelway.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Nelway, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Nelway.

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 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 Nelway:

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 '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- Nelway) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.