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 Gananoque (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 Gananoque. 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 Gananoque ...

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 22 newspapers that have been published in the area around Gananoque.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Gananoque, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Gananoque.

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 Gananoque:

• 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 Gananoque ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Gananoque.

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

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

• Gananoque Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gananoque Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2240616 <2>
• Willow Bank Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Willow Bank Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<1> to the east of Gananoque.
  • The Willow Bank Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Willowbank Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Willow Bank Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2146560 <2>
• Thurso Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Thurso Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Thurso Cemetery
• Cross Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cross Cemetery
• Marble Rock Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Marble Rock Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2319373 <2>
• Pine Grove Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pine Grove Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2331483 <2>
• Sand Hill Presbyterian Church Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • The Sand Hill Presbyterian Church Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Sand Hill Cemetery
  • Storrington Cemetery
  • Storrington Sand Hill Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sand Hill Presbyterian Church Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2331618 <2>
• Sand Bay Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sand Bay Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sand Bay Cemetery
• Riverside Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • 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
• St. James Anglican Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. James Anglican Cemetery
• Trinity Anglican Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Trinity Anglican Cemetery
• Omar Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Omar Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Omar Cemetery
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  • Houghton Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Houghton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Houghton Cemetery
  • St. Lawrence Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Lawrence Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Lawrence Cemetery
  • St. Johns Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Johns Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #65993 <2>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Gananoque: www.townofgananoque.ca/

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