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 Myrtle (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 Myrtle. 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 Myrtle ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Myrtle.

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

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

Myrtle Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Myrtle Cemetery
Fairview Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairview Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2229348 <1>
Bloomfield Rosewell Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bloomfield Rosewell Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Bloomfield Rosewell Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<2> to the south of Plum Coulee.
Bethel Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bethel Cemetery
Bloomfeld Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bloomfeld Cemetery
Rose Farm Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rose Farm Cemetery
- 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]<2> to the southwest of Lowe Farm.
- The Rose Farm Cemetery has also been known as:
- Rosefarm Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2374177 <1>
Rosenbach Mennonite Burial Society Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rosenbach Mennonite Burial Society Cemetery
Plum Coulee Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Plum Coulee Cemetery
Lowe Farm Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lowe Farm Cemetery
Cannon SD Community Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cannon SD Community Cemetery
Sperling Community Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sperling Community Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2229098 <1>
Greenwood Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Greenwood Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1987041 <1>
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- Westridge Memorial Gardens
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Westridge Memorial Gardens
  - To give a relative sense of its location, the Westridge Memorial Gardens is located outside and to the west of Winkler.
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2497982 <1>
- Winkler Cemetery
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Winkler Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2195026 <1>
- Chortitz Old Colony Mennonite Church Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chortitz Old Colony Mennonite Church Cemetery
  - 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 Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2278654 <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Myrtle ...

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 6 newspapers that have been published in the area around Myrtle.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Myrtle, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Myrtle.

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 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 Myrtle:

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Myrtle. 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>	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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Myrtle) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Myrtle. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 49.3533, Longitude: -97.8367
<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.