Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Pomona during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Pomona 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 Pomona (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 Pomona. 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 Pomona ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pomona.
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 Pomona covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Pomona, with the one closest to Pomona listed first.
- Ebenezer Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ebenezer Cemetery
- The Ebenezer Cemetery has also been known as:
- Durham Road Presbyterian Cemetery
- Smellie Pioneer Cemetery
- Smellies Cemetery
- Smilies Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2405922 <2>
- McNeil Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Old Durham Road Pioneer Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Durham Road Pioneer Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Old Durham Road Pioneer Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the west of Priceville.
- The Old Durham Road Pioneer Cemetery has also been known as:
- Priceville Black Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1966298 <2>
- Evergreen Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Flesherton Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Markdale Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Trinity Anglican Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Amos Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Amos Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Amos Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Swinton Park.
- The Amos Cemetery has also been known as:
- Amos Presbyterian Cemetery
- Amos Presbyterian Church / Dromore Presbyterian Cemetery
- Dromore Presbyterian Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2318820 <2>
- Swinton Park Presbyterian Church / St. Andrew's Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Community of Christ Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Salem Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Salem Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Salem Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Eugenia.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2381104 <2>
- Cookes Presbyterian Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (141 more) ...
- St. Matthias Anglican Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Rocky Saugeen Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Durham Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Pomona. See our List of 1890's Communities around Pomona.
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 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 Pomona:
- 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 north past Pomona and then turned east". While Pomona could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Pomona 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 Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller 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 Pomona 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 Pomona. |
| <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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Pomona) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Pomona. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.2392, Longitude: -80.6506 |