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 Comet (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 Comet. 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 Comet ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Comet.
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 Comet covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Comet, with the one closest to Comet listed first.
- Hutchins Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hutchins Cemetery
- 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.<1>
- Erie Memorial Gardens
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Erie Memorial Gardens
- 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 Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2253168 <2>
- Colchester Memorial Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Colchester Memorial Cemetery
- 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 Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2244580 <2>
- Harrow British Methodist Episcopal Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Ferriss Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ferriss Cemetery
- 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.<1>
- Iler Baptist Old Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Iler Baptist New Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Iler Baptist New Cemetery
- The Iler Baptist New Cemetery has also been known as:
- Iler Settlement Baptist Cemetery
- New Iler Baptist Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2395779 <2>
- St. Clements Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Rose Hill Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rose Hill Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Rose Hill Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Amherstburg.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2310239 <2>
- St. John the Baptist Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- St. John The Baptist RC Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Christ Church Anglican Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (163 more) ...
- East Rockwood Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the East Rockwood Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the East Rockwood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Greenhill Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Greenhill Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Greenhill Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Kingsville.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2141940 <2>
- Church of the Epiphany Anglican Church Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Comet. See our List of 1890's Communities around Comet.
Newspapers Published in Comet ...
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 491 newspapers that have been published in the area around Comet.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Comet, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Comet.
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 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 Comet:
- Websites specific to Ontario
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Comet. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <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> | 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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Comet) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Comet. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.0133, Longitude: -82.9858 |