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 Finland (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 Finland. 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 Finland ...

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 8 newspapers that have been published in the area around Finland.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Finland, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Finland.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Finland:

• 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 Finland ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Finland.

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 Finland covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

• Finland Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Finland Cemetery
• Barwick Cemetery
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Barwick Cemetery
• Chapple Cemetery
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chapple Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2425156 <2>
• Emo Municipal Cemetery
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Emo Municipal Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2245611 <2>
• Indus Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Indus Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Indus Cemetery
• Stratton Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stratton Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2560362 <2>
• Birchdale Cemetery
  (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Birchdale Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Birchdale Cemetery
• Riverdale Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Riverdale Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverdale Cemetery
• Devlin Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Devlin Cemetery
• Bergland Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Bergland Cemetery is located in the vicinity of Bergland
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bergland Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2524316 <2>
• Blue Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Blue Cemetery is located 7 miles [11.3 km]<1> to the southwest of Rainy River.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Blue Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2614069 <2>
• Blue Public Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Blue Public Cemetery
• Continue List   (11 more) ...
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Riverside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverside Cemetery
  • Clementson Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Clementson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Clementson Cemetery
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Riverside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverside Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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