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 Ruscom Station (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 Ruscom Station. 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 Ruscom Station ...

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 Ruscom Station: Ruscom Sta. (in Canada, 'Stn.' is the more common abbreviation.)

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 Ruscom Station ...

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 480 newspapers that have been published in the area around Ruscom Station.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Ruscom Station, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Ruscom Station.

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 helpful 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 Ruscom Station:

• 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 Ruscom Station ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Ruscom Station.

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 Ruscom Station covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

• Albuna Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Albuna Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2304856 <2>
• St. Simon & St. Jude Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • The St. Simon & St. Jude Cemetery has also been known as:
  • St. Simon & St. Jude RC Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Simon & St. Jude Cemetery
• Irwin Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Irwin Cemetery
• Cottam Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Cottam Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Cottam.
  • The Cottam Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Cottom Anglican Cemetery
  • Cottam Methodist Cemetery
  • Cottam United Cemetery
  • Malott Cemetery
  • Trinity Anglican Church Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cottam Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2300348 <2>
• McDowell Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McDowell Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2180711 <2>
• Our Lady of Lourdes Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Our Lady of Lourdes Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2431132 <2>
• North Ridge Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the North Ridge Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located between<3> the communities of Essex and North Ridge.  The cemetery lies less than 2 miles<1> to the northwest of North Ridge.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the North Ridge Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2539741 <2>
• Olinda United Church Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Olinda United Church Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2408338 <2>
• Graceland Universalist Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Graceland Universalist Cemetery is located in the vicinity of Olinda
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Graceland Universalist Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2364659 <2>
• Olinda Baptist Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Olinda Baptist Cemetery
• Hope Lane / Fox Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Hope Lane / Fox Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hope Lane / Fox Cemetery
• Annunciation RC / L'Annonciation Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Annunciation RC / L'Annonciation Cemetery
• Continue List   (128 more) ...
  • St. William Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • The St. William Cemetery has also been known as:
    • St. William's RC Church Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. William Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2333506 <2>
  • Kingsville Memorial Gardens
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Kingsville Memorial Gardens is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<1> to the south of Kingsville.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kingsville Memorial Gardens
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2643722 <2>
  • St. Francis Xavier Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Francis Xavier Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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