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 Hamburg (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 Hamburg. 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 Hamburg ...

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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hamburg.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hamburg, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hamburg.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Hamburg:

Websites specific to Manitoba
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search

Cemetery Information and Directories for Manitoba
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Manitoba
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Manitoba
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page

Cemeteries Near Hamburg ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hamburg.

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

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

Plum Coulee Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Plum Coulee Cemetery
Bloomfeld Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bloomfeld Cemetery
Bloomfield Rosewell Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Bloomfield Rosewell Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<1> to the south of Plum Coulee.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bloomfield Rosewell Cemetery
Bergfeld Mennonite / North Neuhoffnung Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bergfeld Mennonite / North Neuhoffnung Cemetery
Rosenbach Mennonite Burial Society Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rosenbach Mennonite Burial Society Cemetery
Winkler Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Winkler Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2195026 <2>
Rose Farm Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Rose Farm Cemetery is located between<3> the communities of Plum Coulee and Lowe Farm. The cemetery lies 5 miles [8 km]<1> to the southwest of Lowe Farm.
- The Rose Farm Cemetery has also been known as:
- Rosefarm Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rose Farm Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2374177 <2>
Westridge Memorial Gardens
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Westridge Memorial Gardens is located outside and to the west of Winkler.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Westridge Memorial Gardens
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2497982 <2>
Reinland Mennonite Church Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- The Reinland Mennonite Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- Reinland Church Cemetery
- Reinland Mennonite Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Reinland Mennonite Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2591690 <2>
Chortitz Old Colony Mennonite Church Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- The Chortitz Old Colony Mennonite Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- Chortitz New Mennonite Cemetery
- Chortitz Old Colony New Mennonite Cemetery
- Chortiz New Mennonite Cemetery
- Chortiz Old Colony Mennonite Church Cemetery
- Chortiz Old Colony New Mennonite Cemetery
- Chortiz Old Colony New Mennonite Church Cemetery
- Old Colony Mennonite Church Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chortitz Old Colony Mennonite Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2278654 <2>
Bethel Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bethel Cemetery
Myrtle Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Myrtle Cemetery
Continue List (72 more) ...
- Rosenfeld Cemetery
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rosenfeld Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2254378 <2>
- Waldheim Cemetery
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Waldheim Cemetery
- Osterwick South Mennonite Cemetery
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Osterwick South Mennonite Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

The official website for Province of Manitoba: https://www.gov.mb.ca/

Footnotes ...

<1>	Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Hamburg) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hamburg. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 49.2150, Longitude: -97.7972
<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>	To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Plum Coulee and Lowe Farm. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location.