Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Arner during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Arner was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..
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 Arner (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 Arner. 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.
Newspapers Published in Arner ...
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 466 newspapers that have been published in the area around Arner.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Arner, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Arner.
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 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 Arner:
- Websites specific to Ontario
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
Cemeteries Near Arner ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Arner.
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 Arner covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Arner, with the one closest to Arner listed first.
- Iler Baptist Old Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Iler Baptist New Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Greenhill Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Ferriss Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Ferriss Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ferriss Cemetery
- Church of the Epiphany Anglican Church Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Harrow British Methodist Episcopal Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Kingsville Memorial Gardens
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Colchester Memorial Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Colchester Memorial Cemetery is located in Colchester.
- The Colchester Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
- Colchester Memorial Park
- Memorial Park
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Colchester Memorial Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2244580 <3>
- Erie Memorial Gardens
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Erie Memorial Gardens is a large cemetery that is located in Colchester.
- The Erie Memorial Gardens has also been known as:
- Erie Methodist Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Erie Memorial Gardens
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2253168 <3>
- Hutchins Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Hutchins Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hutchins Cemetery
- Cottam Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Cottam Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Cottam.
- The Cottam Cemetery has also been known as:
- Cottom Anglican Cemetery
- Cottam Methodist Cemetery
- Cottam United Cemetery
- Malott Cemetery
- Trinity Anglican Church Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cottam Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2300348 <3>
- Graceland Universalist Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (115 more) ...
- Olinda Baptist Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Olinda United Church Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- North Ridge Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the North Ridge Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located between<5> the communities of Essex and North Ridge. The cemetery lies less than 2 miles<2> to the northwest of North Ridge.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the North Ridge Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2539741 <3>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Arner. See our List of 1890's Communities around Arner.
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Arner and then turned east". While Arner could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Arner as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.
Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.
Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.
Also keep in mind that Arner could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
Since confusion between is common, we searched and weren't able to find another Ontario community named Arner. |
| <2> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Arner) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Arner. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.0319, Longitude: -82.8239 |
| <3> | 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. |
| <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. |
| <5> | To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Essex and North Ridge. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location. |