Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Rhodes during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Rhodes 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 Rhodes (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 Rhodes. 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 Rhodes ...
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 Rhodes, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Rhodes may originally have been Rhode's.
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.
Cemeteries Near Rhodes ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rhodes.
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 Rhodes covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Rhodes, with the one closest to Rhodes listed first.
- North Buxton Community Church / British Methodist Episcopal Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Dolsen Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- St. Thomas Anglican Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Thamesview Lodge Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Immaculate Conception Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Immaculate Conception Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Immaculate Conception Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Pain Court.
- The Immaculate Conception Cemetery has also been known as:
- Immaculate Conception / Pain Court RC Cemetery
- Immaculate Conception RC Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2226018 <3>
- Maple Leaf Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Christ Church Memorial Garden
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Christ Church Memorial Garden
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Christ Church Memorial Garden. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Merlin Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Merlin Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Merlin Cemetery is located outside and to the northeast of Merlin.
- The Merlin Cemetery has also been known as:
- Merlin / Doyle Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2227791 <3>
- Stewart Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stewart Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Stewart Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of Merlin.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2387634 <3>
- Victoria / Baddertown Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Christ Church Anglican Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- McMullin / Traxler Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McMullin / Traxler Cemetery
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the McMullin / Traxler Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Continue List (82 more) ...
- Pardoville Union Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- French's Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the French's Cemetery
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the French's Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2506023 <3>
- St. Philippe RC Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Rhodes. See our List of 1890's Communities around Rhodes.
Newspapers Published in Rhodes ...
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 1 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rhodes.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rhodes, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Rhodes.
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 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 Rhodes:
- 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 Rhodes and then turned east". While Rhodes could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Rhodes 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 Rhodes 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 Rhodes. |
| <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> | 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> | 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. |
| <5> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Rhodes) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rhodes. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.3378, Longitude: -82.2267 |