Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Beech Beach during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Beech Beach 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 Beech Beach (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 Beech Beach. 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 Beech Beach ...
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.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Beech Beach: Beech Bch.
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.
Cemeteries Near Beech Beach ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Beech Beach.
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 Beech Beach covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Beech Beach, with the one closest to Beech Beach listed first.
- Tenby Bay Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tenby Bay Cemetery
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Tenby Bay Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
- Sacred Heart Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sacred Heart Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sacred Heart Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Maple Grove Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Maple Grove Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Maple Grove Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Bob Hill Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bob Hill Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bob Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Riverview Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverview Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Riverview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- St. Boniface Catholic Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Grace United Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grace United Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Grace United Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Hilton Beach.
- The Grace United Cemetery has also been known as:
- Hilton Beach United Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2422853 <4>
- Anderson Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Anderson Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Anderson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Goetzville Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Goetzville Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Goetzville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Little Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Little Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Little Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Drummond Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Drummond Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Drummond Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Drummond (MI).
- The Drummond Cemetery has also been known as:
- Drummond Island Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #389 <4>
- St. Joseph Twp. Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (45 more) ...
- Bruce Mines / Taylor Street Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Bruce Mines Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bruce Mines Cemetery
- The Bruce Mines Cemetery has also been known as:
- Bruce Mines / Trunk Road Cemetery
- Trunk Road Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2459997 <4>
- Johnston Family Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Johnston Family Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Johnston Family Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Beech Beach. See our List of 1890's Communities around Beech Beach.
Newspapers Published in Beech Beach ...
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 1 newspapers that have been published in the area around Beech Beach.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Beech Beach, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Beech Beach.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Beech Beach:
- Websites specific to Ontario
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
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 Beech Beach and then turned west". While Beech Beach could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Beech Beach 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 Beech Beach 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 Beech Beach. |
| <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> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Beech Beach) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Beech Beach. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.1147, Longitude: -83.8928 |