Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Herham during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Herham 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 Herham (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 Herham. 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 Herham ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Herham.
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 Herham covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Herham, with the one closest to Herham listed first.
- First Mennonite Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- St. Peter's Lutheran Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Woodland Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Breslau Mennonite Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Bridgeport Memorial Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bridgeport Memorial Cemetery
- The Bridgeport Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
- Bridgeport Cemetery
- Bridgeport Free Cemetery
- Bridgeport Free Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2312378 <2>
- Beth Jacob Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Strasburg Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Cornell - Limerick Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Bloomingdale Mennonite Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bloomingdale Mennonite Cemetery
- The Bloomingdale Mennonite Cemetery has also been known as:
- Snyder's Mennonite Cemetery
- Tobin Farm Cemetery
- Freeport Pioneer Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Parkview Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Kitchener Mt. Hope Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kitchener Mt. Hope Cemetery
- The Kitchener Mt. Hope Cemetery has also been known as:
- Mt. Hope Cemetery
- Mt. Hope Waterloo Cemetery
- Waterloo Mt. Hope Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2130194 <2>
- Continue List (327 more) ...
- Pioneer Park Mennonite Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Doon Presbyterian Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Kinzie - Biehn Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kinzie - Biehn Cemetery
- The Kinzie - Biehn Cemetery has also been known as:
- Kinzie Biehn Pioneer Cemetery
- Pioneer Memorial Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2221240 <2>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Herham. See our List of 1890's Communities around Herham.
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 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 Herham:
- 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 Herham and then turned west". While Herham could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Herham 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 Herham 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 Herham. |
| <2> | 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. |