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 Homer (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 Homer. 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 Homer ...

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 37 newspapers that have been published in the area around Homer.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Homer, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Homer.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start 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 Homer:

• 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 Homer ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Homer.

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

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

• Victoria Lawn Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Victoria Lawn Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Saint Catharines.
  • The Victoria Lawn Cemetery has also been known as:
  • St. Catharines Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Victoria Lawn Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #639409 <2>
• Homer Anglican Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • The Homer Anglican Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Homer Burying Ground / The Ten Anglican Cemetery
  • Homer Burying Ground
  • Horner Anglican Cemetery
  • Ten Anglican Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Homer Anglican Cemetery
• Old Lakeview Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Lakeview Cemetery
• Thorold Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Thorold Cemetery
• William Servos Burial Plot
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the William Servos Burial Plot
• McCombs Family Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the McCombs Family Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McCombs Family Cemetery
• Lakeview Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lakeview Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2186735 <2>
• New Lakeview Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the New Lakeview Cemetery
• Beaverdams Burying Ground
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beaverdams Burying Ground
• St. David's United Methodist Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • The St. David's United Methodist Cemetery has also been known as:
  • St. David's - Queenston United Church Cemetery
  • St. David's United Methodist Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. David's United Methodist Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2305858 <2>
• Sterling / Clement / Sixth Line Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sterling / Clement / Sixth Line Cemetery is located between<4> the communities of Virgil and Saint Davids.  The cemetery lies 2 miles [3.2 km]<1> to the north of Saint Davids.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sterling / Clement / Sixth Line Cemetery
• Christ Church Anglican Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • The Christ Church Anglican Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Christ Church Cemetery
  • McNab Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Christ Church Anglican Cemetery
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  • May Family Burying Ground
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the May Family Burying Ground. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the May Family Burying Ground
  • St. Andrews Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Andrews Cemetery
  • Boyd / Turney / Christie Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Boyd / Turney / Christie Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Boyd / Turney / Christie Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Homer. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

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