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 Osterwick (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 Osterwick. 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 Osterwick ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Osterwick.

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

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

• Osterwick South Mennonite Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Osterwick South Mennonite Cemetery
• Blumenfeld Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Blumenfeld Cemetery
• Chortitz Old Colony Mennonite Church Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • 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>
• Waldheim Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Waldheim Cemetery
• Glencross Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Glencross Cemetery
  • The Glencross Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Glencross Community Cemetery
• Glencross Mennonite Church / Glencross South Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Glencross Mennonite Church / Glencross South Cemetery
• Reinland Mennonite Church Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Reinland Mennonite Church Cemetery
  • The Reinland Mennonite Church Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Reinland Church Cemetery
  • Reinland Mennonite Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2591690 <1>
• Haskett Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Haskett Cemetery
• Norwegian Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Norwegian Cemetery
• Reinland Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Reinland Cemetery
• Winkler Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Winkler Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2195026 <1>
• Westridge Memorial Gardens
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • 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>
• Continue List   (71 more) ...
  • Schoenwiese Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Schoenwiese Cemetery
  • Rosenbach Mennonite Burial Society Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rosenbach Mennonite Burial Society Cemetery
  • Southside Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Southside Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2195788 <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Osterwick ...

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 17 newspapers that have been published in the area around Osterwick.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Osterwick, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Osterwick.

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 Osterwick:

• 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 Osterwick. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

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