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 Crystal 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 Crystal 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 Crystal 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 Crystal Beach: Crystal 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.

Newspapers Published in Crystal 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 47 newspapers that have been published in the area around Crystal Beach.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Crystal Beach, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Crystal 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 websites either 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 Crystal Beach:

• Websites specific to Ontario
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Ontario
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Ontario
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Ontario
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Ontario

Cemeteries Near Crystal Beach ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Crystal 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 Crystal Beach covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Crystal Beach, with the one closest to Crystal Beach listed first.

• Ridgeway Memorial Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Ridgeway Memorial Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Ridgeway.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ridgeway Memorial Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2230405 <2>
• Ridgeway Old Memorial Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ridgeway Old Memorial Cemetery
• Hershey Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hershey Cemetery
• Zion Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • The Zion Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Zion United Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Zion Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2318216 <2>
• Emmanuel Lutheran Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • The Emmanuel Lutheran Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Blach's Burying Ground
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Emmanuel Lutheran Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2370791 <2>
• Shisler Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • The Shisler Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Shisler Point Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Shisler Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2510503 <2>
• Brethern in Christ Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • The Brethern in Christ Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Bertie Brethern in Christ Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brethern in Christ Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2351833 <2>
• Ft. Erie Coloured Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • The Ft. Erie Coloured Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Curtis Road Cemetery
  • Dennahower Coloured Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Erie Coloured Cemetery
• St. John's Anglican Church Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • The St. John's Anglican Church Cemetery has also been known as:
  • St. John's Cemetery
  • St. John's Church Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. John's Anglican Church Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2146544 <2>
• Black Creek Pioneer Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • The Black Creek Pioneer Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Bolden Cemetery
  • Tunkar Cemetery
  • Winger Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Black Creek Pioneer Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2367833 <2>
• United Brethren Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the United Brethren Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
  • The United Brethren Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Beam United Brethren Cemetery
  • Beams Mills Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the United Brethren Cemetery
• Stevensville Reformed Mennonite Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Stevensville Reformed Mennonite Cemetery is located outside and to the west of Stevensville.
  • The Stevensville Reformed Mennonite Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Reformed Mennonite Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stevensville Reformed Mennonite Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2287407 <2>
• Continue List   (288 more) ...
  • St. Joseph's RC Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Joseph's RC Cemetery
  • St. Joseph's Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Joseph's Cemetery
  • Greenwood Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • The Greenwood Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Greenwood Municipal Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Greenwood Cemetery

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Crystal Beach. See our List of 1890's Communities around Crystal Beach.

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Crystal Beach. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/