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 Niagara Falls (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 Niagara Falls. 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 Niagara Falls ...

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 65 newspapers that have been published in the area around Niagara Falls.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Niagara Falls, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Niagara Falls.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Niagara Falls:

• 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 Niagara Falls ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Niagara Falls.

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

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

• All Saints Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the All Saints Cemetery
• Drummond Hill Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • The Drummond Hill Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Drummondville Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Drummond Hill Cemetery
• Fairview Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Fairview Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Niagara Falls.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairview Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1976512 <2>
• Lundy's Lane Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Lundy's Lane Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Niagara Falls.
  • The Lundy's Lane Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Garner Cemetery
  • Green's Corners Cemetery
  • Lundy's Lane Methodist Cemetery
  • Lundy's Lane United Cemetery
  • Stamford Twp. Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lundy's Lane Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2142403 <2>
• Stamford Presbyterian Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Stamford Presbyterian Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Stamford.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stamford Presbyterian Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2335915 <2>
• Oakwood Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Oakwood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oakwood Cemetery
• Dell Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Dell Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<1> to the north of Niagara Falls.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dell Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2301442 <2>
• Weaver Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Weaver Cemetery
• Battle of Chippawa Cemetery (War 1812-1814)
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Battle of Chippawa Cemetery (War 1812-1814)
• St. Josephs Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Josephs Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Josephs Cemetery
• Gate of Heaven Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • The Gate of Heaven Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Gate Heaven Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gate of Heaven Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1656404 <2>
• Holy Trinity Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Trinity Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #64895 <2>
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  • Riverdale Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverdale Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #65795 <2>
  • St. David's United Methodist Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • 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>
  • Lapp Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • The Lapp Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Lapp Family Burying Ground
    • Lapp Family Cemetery
    • Lapp / Hershey / Sayler Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lapp Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2413956 <2>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Niagara Falls: www.niagarafalls.ca/

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