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 LaSalle (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 LaSalle. 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 LaSalle ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of LaSalle.
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 LaSalle covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from LaSalle, with the one closest to LaSalle listed first.
- Sacred Heart Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Ecorse Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ecorse Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ecorse Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Saint Francis Xavier Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Mt. Carmel Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Carmel Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mt. Carmel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Oakwood Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oakwood Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Oakwood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Woodmere Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Heavenly Rest Catholic Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Assumption Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- St. Stephen's Anglican Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Victoria Memorial Gardens
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Windsor Memorial Gardens
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Reves - Wilhelm Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Reves - Wilhelm Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Reves - Wilhelm Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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- Ferndale Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ferndale Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ferndale Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Bloomdale Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> 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 LaSalle. See our List of 1890's Communities around LaSalle.
Newspapers Published in LaSalle ...
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 544 newspapers that have been published in the area around LaSalle.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of LaSalle, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for LaSalle.
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 LaSalle:
- Websites specific to Ontario
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <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. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- LaSalle) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in LaSalle. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.2347, Longitude: -83.0953 |