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 Riverdale (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 Riverdale. 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 Riverdale ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Riverdale.
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 Riverdale covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Riverdale, with the one closest to Riverdale listed first.
- Hassett Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Havelock Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Havelock Cemetery
- The Havelock Cemetery has also been known as:
- Lakeside Cemetery
- Nowlans Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2221026 <1>
- Doucetteville Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- St. Peter's Anglican Church Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Weymouth Church of Christ Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Ashmore United Baptist Church Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ashmore United Baptist Church Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Ashmore United Baptist Church Cemetery is located between<2> the communities of Ashmore and Weymouth North. The cemetery lies less than 2 miles<3> to the southwest of Ashmore.
- The Ashmore United Baptist Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- Ashmore Baptist Church Cemetery
- Ashmore United Baptist Cemetery
- Bethel Heartz Memorial Cemetery
- Bethel United Baptist Church Cemetery
- United Old Methodist Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2501663 <1>
- Riverside Baptist Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverside Baptist Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Riverside Baptist Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Weymouth North.
- The Riverside Baptist Cemetery has also been known as:
- Riverside Baptist Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2212252 <1>
- Plympton Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Barton Baptist Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- St. Mary's Bay Baptist Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Brighton Anglican Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Continue List (45 more) ...
- Sandy Cove Baptist Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sandy Cove Baptist Cemetery
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Sandy Cove Baptist Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2585672 <1>
- Sandy Cove Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sandy Cove Cemetery
- The Sandy Cove Cemetery has also been known as:
- Sandy Cove United Zion Church Cemetery
- Zion United Church Cemetery
- Rossway Baptist Church Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Riverdale. See our List of 1890's Communities around Riverdale.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we 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 Riverdale:
- Websites specific to Nova Scotia
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Nova Scotia
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Riverdale. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Province of Nova Scotia: https://novascotia.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> | To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Ashmore and Weymouth North. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Riverdale) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Riverdale. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.3547, Longitude: -65.8569 |
| <4> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |