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 Pleasant Valley (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 Pleasant Valley. 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.

Name Variations for Pleasant Valley ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Pleasant Valley: Pleasant Vly. (or less commonly used: Pleasant Vally. or Pleasant Vlly.)

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

Newspapers Published in Pleasant Valley ...

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 474 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pleasant Valley.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pleasant Valley, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pleasant Valley.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with 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 Pleasant Valley:

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 Pleasant Valley ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pleasant Valley.

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

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

Ferriss Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Ferriss Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ferriss Cemetery
Harrow British Methodist Episcopal Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Harrow British Methodist Episcopal Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2446059 <3>
Iler Baptist Old Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- The Iler Baptist Old Cemetery has also been known as:
- Old Iler Baptist Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Iler Baptist Old Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2253156 <3>
Iler Baptist New Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- The Iler Baptist New Cemetery has also been known as:
- Iler Settlement Baptist Cemetery
- New Iler Baptist Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Iler Baptist New Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2395779 <3>
Colchester Memorial Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Colchester Memorial Cemetery is located in Colchester.
- The Colchester Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
- Colchester Memorial Park
- Memorial Park
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Colchester Memorial Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2244580 <3>
Erie Memorial Gardens
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Erie Memorial Gardens is a large cemetery that is located in Colchester.
- The Erie Memorial Gardens has also been known as:
- Erie Methodist Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Erie Memorial Gardens
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2253168 <3>
Hutchins Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Hutchins Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hutchins Cemetery
Greenhill Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Greenhill Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Kingsville.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Greenhill Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2141940 <3>
Church of the Epiphany Anglican Church Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- The Church of the Epiphany Anglican Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- Epiphany Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Church of the Epiphany Anglican Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2322522 <3>
Kingsville Memorial Gardens
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Kingsville Memorial Gardens is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<1> to the south of Kingsville.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kingsville Memorial Gardens
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2643722 <3>
St. Clements Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Clements Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2275469 <3>
Cottam Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Cottam Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Cottam.
- The Cottam Cemetery has also been known as:
- Cottom Anglican Cemetery
- Cottam Methodist Cemetery
- Cottam United Cemetery
- Malott Cemetery
- Trinity Anglican Church Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cottam Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2300348 <3>
Continue List (135 more) ...
- North Ridge Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  - To give a relative sense of its location, the North Ridge Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located between<4> the communities of Essex and North Ridge. The cemetery lies less than 2 miles<1> to the northwest of North Ridge.
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the North Ridge Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2539741 <3>
- Graceland Universalist Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  - To give a relative sense of its location, the Graceland Universalist Cemetery is located in the vicinity of Olinda
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Graceland Universalist Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2364659 <3>
- Olinda Baptist Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Olinda Baptist Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>	Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Pleasant Valley) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Pleasant Valley. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.0542, Longitude: -82.8673
<2>	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.
<3>	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.
<4>	To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Essex and North Ridge. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location.