Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Facer during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Facer 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 Facer (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 Facer. 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 Facer ...
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 37 newspapers that have been published in the area around Facer.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Facer, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Facer.
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 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 Facer:
- Websites specific to Ontario
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
Cemeteries Near Facer ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Facer.
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 Facer covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Facer, with the one closest to Facer listed first.
- Victoria Lawn Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Victoria Lawn Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Saint Catharines.
- The Victoria Lawn Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Catharines Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Victoria Lawn Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #639409 <3>
- Homer Anglican Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- The Homer Anglican Cemetery has also been known as:
- Homer Burying Ground / The Ten Anglican Cemetery
- Homer Burying Ground
- Horner Anglican Cemetery
- Ten Anglican Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Homer Anglican Cemetery
- McCombs Family Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the McCombs Family Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McCombs Family Cemetery
- May Family Burying Ground
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the May Family Burying Ground. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the May Family Burying Ground
- St. Andrews Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Old Lakeview Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Thorold Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- William Servos Burial Plot
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- St. John's Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Boyd / Turney / Christie Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Boyd / Turney / Christie Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Boyd / Turney / Christie Cemetery
- Beaverdams Burying Ground
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Lakeview Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (243 more) ...
- New Lakeview Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Christ Church Anglican Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Schram / Tinlin Family Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Schram / Tinlin Family Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Schram / Tinlin Family Cemetery
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Facer. See our List of 1890's Communities around Facer.
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 Facer and then turned west". While Facer could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Facer 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Facer 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 Facer. |
| <2> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Facer) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Facer. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.1764, Longitude: -79.2239 |
| <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. |