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 Sherwood (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 Sherwood. 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 Sherwood ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sherwood.
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 Sherwood covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Sherwood, with the one closest to Sherwood listed first.
- Pine Hill Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pine Hill Cemetery
- The Pine Hill Cemetery has also been known as:
- New Baptist Cemetery
- Pine Hill / United Baptist Cemetery
- United Baptist Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2309237 <1>
- Sims Settlement Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sims Settlement Cemetery
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Sims Settlement Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
- Western Shore Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- St. James Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. James Cemetery
- The St. James Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. James Anglican Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2301927 <1>
- Old St. James Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Seventh Day Adventist Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- St. Martin's Anglican Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Blue Mtn. Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Bayview Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bayview Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Bayview Cemetery is located outside and to the north of Mahone Bay.
- St. Barnabas Anglican Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Garden of Rest Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Blockhouse Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
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- Maplewood Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Old Parish Burying Ground
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Falmouth Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Falmouth Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Falmouth Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<3> to the east of Windsor.
- The Falmouth Cemetery has also been known as:
- Centre Falmouth Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2433708 <1>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Sherwood. See our List of 1890's Communities around Sherwood.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Sherwood:
- 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 Sherwood. 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> | 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. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sherwood) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sherwood. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.7194, Longitude: -64.2981 |