Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Cheeseborough during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Cheeseborough 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 Cheeseborough (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 Cheeseborough. 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 Cheeseborough ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cheeseborough.
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 Cheeseborough covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Cheeseborough, with the one closest to Cheeseborough listed first.
- Gananoque Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Willow Bank Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Willow Bank Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Willow Bank Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the east of Gananoque.
- The Willow Bank Cemetery has also been known as:
- Willowbank Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2146560 <2>
- Marble Rock Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Thurso Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Thurso Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Thurso Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Cross Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Pine Grove Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Sand Hill Presbyterian Church Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- St. James Anglican Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Lillies Baptist Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Riverside Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverside Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Riverside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Union Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Trinity Anglican Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (138 more) ...
- Sand Bay Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sand Bay Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sand Bay Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Val Luven Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Val Luven Cemetery
- The Val Luven Cemetery has also been known as:
- Van Luven Burying Ground
- Omar Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Omar Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Omar Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> 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 Cheeseborough. See our List of 1890's Communities around Cheeseborough.
Newspapers Published in Cheeseborough ...
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 21 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cheeseborough.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cheeseborough, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cheeseborough.
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 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 Cheeseborough:
- 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 north past Cheeseborough and then turned west". While Cheeseborough could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Cheeseborough 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Cheeseborough 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 Cheeseborough. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <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 from Point A (ie- Cheeseborough) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Cheeseborough. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.3600, Longitude: -76.1797 |
| <4> | 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. |