Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Halsteads Bay during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Halsteads Bay 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 Halsteads Bay (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 Halsteads Bay. 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 Halsteads Bay ...
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.
While the name of this community is Halsteads Bay, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Halsteads Bay may originally have been Halstead's Bay.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Halsteads Bay might be written as Halstead Bay.
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.
Cemeteries Near Halsteads Bay ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Halsteads Bay.
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 Halsteads Bay covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Halsteads Bay, with the one closest to Halsteads Bay listed first.
- Cross Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Marble Rock Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Gananoque Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Thurso Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Thurso Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Thurso Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Willow Bank Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Willow Bank Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Willow Bank Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<5> to the east of Gananoque.
- The Willow Bank Cemetery has also been known as:
- Willowbank Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2146560 <3>
- Riverside Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverside Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Riverside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Houghton Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Houghton Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Houghton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Union Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Omar Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Omar Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Omar Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Church Street Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Church Street Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Church Street Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Highland Park Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Highland Park Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Highland Park Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- St. Cyriel Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Cyriel Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Cyriel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Continue List (146 more) ...
- Escott Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Escott Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Escott Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Escott.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2328632 <3>
- Pine Grove Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- St. Johns Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Halsteads Bay. See our List of 1890's Communities around Halsteads Bay.
Newspapers Published in Halsteads Bay ...
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 25 newspapers that have been published in the area around Halsteads Bay.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Halsteads Bay, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Halsteads Bay.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Halsteads Bay:
- Websites specific to Ontario
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
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 Halsteads Bay and then turned west". While Halsteads Bay could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Halsteads Bay 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 Halsteads Bay 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 Halsteads Bay. |
| <2> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <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> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <5> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Halsteads Bay) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Halsteads Bay. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.3494, Longitude: -76.0917 |