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 Fort Frances (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 Fort Frances. 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 Fort Frances ...

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.

Another variation: Fort Francis.

• A typical abbreviation for Fort Frances: Ft. Frances

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 Fort Frances ...

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 9 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fort Frances.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fort Frances, 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 Fort Frances.

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 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 Fort Frances:

• 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 Fort Frances ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fort Frances.

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

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

• Holy Cross Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Cross Cemetery
• Ft. Frances Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Frances Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2209769 <2>
• Riverview Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverview Cemetery
• Forest Hill Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Forest Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Forest Hill Cemetery
• Our Lady of Lourdes Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Our Lady of Lourdes Cemetery
• Ericsburg Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ericsburg Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ericsburg Cemetery
• Devlin Cemetery
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Devlin Cemetery
• Oakley Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • The Oakley Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Littlefork Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oakley Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #82738 <2>
• Ray Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ray Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ray Cemetery
• Lyman Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lyman Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lyman Cemetery
• Riverside Cemetery
  (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • 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
• Riverside Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • 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
• Continue List   (10 more) ...
  • Emo Municipal Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Emo Municipal Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2245611 <2>
  • Indus Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • 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
  • Lindford Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lindford Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lindford Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Fort Frances: www.fort-frances.com/

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