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 Richards Landing (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 Richards Landing. 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 Richards Landing ...

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.

• A typical abbreviation for Richards Landing: Richards Lndg. (or less commonly used: Richards Lndng.)

• While the name of this community is Richards Landing, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Richards Landing may originally have been Richard's Landing.
  
  Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Richards Landing might be written as Richard Landing.

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 Richards Landing ...

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 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Richards Landing.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Richards Landing, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Richards Landing.

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 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 Richards Landing:

• 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 Richards Landing ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Richards Landing.

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 Richards Landing covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

• St. Joseph Twp. Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Joseph Twp. Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2502997 <3>
• Johnston Family Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Johnston Family Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Johnston Family Cemetery
• Presbyterian Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Presbyterian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Presbyterian Cemetery
• Laitinen Family Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Laitinen Family Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Laitinen Family Cemetery
• Grace United Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Grace United Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Hilton Beach.
  • The Grace United Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Hilton Beach United Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grace United Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2422853 <3>
• Desbarats Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Desbarats Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<2> to the southeast of Desbarats.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Desbarats Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2309736 <3>
• Duck Island Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Duck Island Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Duck Island Cemetery
• Catholic Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Catholic Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Catholic Cemetery
• St. Boniface Catholic Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • The St. Boniface Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
  • St. Boniface Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Boniface Catholic Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2422711 <3>
• Laird Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Laird Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2364578 <3>
• Finnish Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Finnish Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Finnish Cemetery
• Wilwalk Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Wilwalk Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wilwalk Cemetery
• Continue List   (63 more) ...
  • Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
  • Sylvan Valley Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sylvan Valley Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2400082 <3>
  • Barbeau Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Barbeau Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Barbeau Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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