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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 Thorold South (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 Thorold South. 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.

Newspapers Published in Thorold South ...

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 44 newspapers that have been published in the area around Thorold South.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Thorold South, there are papers which were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Thorold South.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Thorold South:

Cemeteries Near Thorold South ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Thorold South.

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 Thorold South covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Allanburg Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Lakeview Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • New Lakeview Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Old Lakeview Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Thorold Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Beaverdams Burying Ground
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Pleasantview Memorial Gardens
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Lundy's Lane Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Lundy's Lane Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Niagara Falls.
    • The Lundy's Lane Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Garner Cemetery
    • Green's Corners Cemetery
    • Lundy's Lane Methodist Cemetery
    • Lundy's Lane United Cemetery
    • Stamford Twp. Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lundy's Lane Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2142403 <2>
  • McCombs Family Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • 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.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McCombs Family Cemetery
  • Boyd / Turney / Christie Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • 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.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Boyd / Turney / Christie Cemetery
  • Immaculate Conception RC Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • St. Paul's Anglican Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (248 more) ...
    • Stamford Presbyterian Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Homer Anglican Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • 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
    • Victoria Lawn Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)

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

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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- Thorold South) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Thorold South. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.1034, Longitude: -79.1931    
<2>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.
<3>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.









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024