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 Port Dalhousie (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 Port Dalhousie. 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 Port Dalhousie ...

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 Port Dalhousie: Prt. Dalhousie

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 Port Dalhousie ...

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 33 newspapers that have been published in the area around Port Dalhousie.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Port Dalhousie, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Port Dalhousie.

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 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 Port Dalhousie:

• 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 Port Dalhousie ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Port Dalhousie.

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 Port Dalhousie covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

• St. John's Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. John's Cemetery
• St. Andrews Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Andrews Cemetery
• May Family Burying Ground
  (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the May Family Burying Ground. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the May Family Burying Ground
• Schram / Tinlin Family Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Schram / Tinlin Family Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Schram / Tinlin Family Cemetery
• William Servos Burial Plot
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the William Servos Burial Plot
• McCombs Family Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the McCombs Family Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McCombs Family Cemetery
• Victoria Lawn Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Victoria Lawn Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Saint Catharines.
  • The Victoria Lawn Cemetery has also been known as:
  • St. Catharines Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Victoria Lawn Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #639409 <3>
• Homer Anglican Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • The Homer Anglican Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Homer Burying Ground / The Ten Anglican Cemetery
  • Homer Burying Ground
  • Horner Anglican Cemetery
  • Ten Anglican Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Homer Anglican Cemetery
• Christ Church Anglican Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • The Christ Church Anglican Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Christ Church Cemetery
  • McNab Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Christ Church Anglican Cemetery
• Oak Lawn Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • The Oak Lawn Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Jordan Station United Church Cemetery
  • Oaklawn Cemetery
  • Oaklawn / Jordan Station United Church Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oak Lawn Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2386143 <3>
• Boyd / Turney / Christie Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Boyd / Turney / Christie Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Boyd / Turney / Christie Cemetery
• Rockway Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • The Rockway Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Rockway Presbyterian Church Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rockway Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2257882 <3>
• Continue List   (251 more) ...
  • Nicholas Smith Family Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Nicholas Smith Family Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Nicholas Smith Family Cemetery
  • Beaverdams Burying Ground
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beaverdams Burying Ground
  • Thorold Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Thorold Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Port Dalhousie: www.portdalhousie.com/

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