Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Pooles Resort during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Pooles Resort 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 Pooles Resort (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 Pooles Resort. 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 Pooles Resort ...
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.
While the name of this community is Pooles Resort, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Pooles Resort may originally have been Poole's Resort.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Pooles Resort might be written as Poole Resort.
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 Pooles Resort ...
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 20 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pooles Resort.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pooles Resort, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pooles Resort.
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 professional and volunteer 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 Pooles Resort:
- Websites specific to Ontario
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
Cemeteries Near Pooles Resort ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pooles Resort.
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 Pooles Resort covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Pooles Resort, with the one closest to Pooles Resort listed first.
- Escott Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Mallorytown United Church Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Union Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Barnes Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Barnes Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Barnes Cemetery
- Caintown Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Church Street Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Church Street Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Church Street Cemetery
- Highland Park Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Highland Park Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Highland Park Cemetery
- St. Cyriel Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Cyriel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Cyriel Cemetery
- Rarick Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rarick Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rarick Cemetery
- Pleasant Valley Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pleasant Valley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pleasant Valley Cemetery
- Yonge Mills Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Houghton Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Houghton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Houghton Cemetery
- Continue List (145 more) ...
- Hill Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hill Cemetery
- McDonald Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the McDonald Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McDonald Cemetery
- Riverside Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Riverside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverside Cemetery
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Pooles Resort. See our List of 1890's Communities around Pooles Resort.
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 south past Pooles Resort and then turned east". While Pooles Resort could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Pooles Resort 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Pooles Resort 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 Pooles Resort. |
| <2> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <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- Pooles Resort) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Pooles Resort. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.4308, Longitude: -75.8839 |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | 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. |