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 Collins Cove (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 Collins Cove. 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.

Name Variations for Collins Cove ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

• A typical abbreviation for Collins Cove: Collins Cv.

• While the name of this community is Collins Cove, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Collins Cove may originally have been Collin's Cove.
  
  Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Collins Cove might be written as Collin Cove.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 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 Collins Cove:

• Websites specific to Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Newfoundland and Labrador
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Newfoundland and Labrador

Cemeteries Near Collins Cove ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Collins Cove.

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

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

• Collins Cove United Church Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • The Collins Cove United Church Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Zion United Church Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Collins Cove United Church Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2304763 <2>
• Grace United Church Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Grace United Church Cemetery is located in Winterland.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grace United Church Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2687926 <2>
• Garnish United Church Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Garnish United Church Cemetery is located in Garnish.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Garnish United Church Cemetery
• St. Giles Anglican Church Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Giles Anglican Church Cemetery is located in Garnish.
  • The St. Giles Anglican Church Cemetery has also been known as:
  • St. Giles Old Anglican Church Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Giles Anglican Church Cemetery
• Baine Harbour Cemetery
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Baine Harbour Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Baine Harbour Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2635667 <2>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

The official website for Province of Newfoundland and Labrador: https://www.gov.nl.ca/