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 Harmony (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 Harmony. 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.
Cemeteries Near Harmony ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Harmony.
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 Harmony covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Harmony, with the one closest to Harmony listed first.
- St. Joseph Twp. Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Johnston Family Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Johnston Family Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Johnston Family Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Presbyterian Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Presbyterian Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Presbyterian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Grace United Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Laitinen Family Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Laitinen Family Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Laitinen Family Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Catholic Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Catholic Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Catholic Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Anderson Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Anderson Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Anderson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Tenby Bay Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- St. Boniface Catholic Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Duck Island Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Duck Island Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Duck Island Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Desbarats Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Fairview Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairview Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fairview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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- Goetzville Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Goetzville Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Goetzville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Laird Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Barbeau Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Barbeau Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Barbeau Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Harmony. See our List of 1890's Communities around Harmony.
Newspapers Published in Harmony ...
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 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Harmony.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Harmony, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Harmony.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Harmony:
- Websites specific to Ontario
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Harmony. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Harmony) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Harmony. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.2256, Longitude: -84.0439 |