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 (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. 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 ...

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 36 newspapers that have been published in the area around Thorold.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Thorold, 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.

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 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:

• 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 Thorold ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Thorold.

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

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

• Beaverdams Burying Ground
  (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beaverdams Burying Ground
• Old Lakeview Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Lakeview Cemetery
• Thorold Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Thorold Cemetery
• Allanburg Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Allanburg Cemetery
• McCombs Family Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 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.<2>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McCombs Family Cemetery
• Lakeview Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lakeview Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2186735 <3>
• New Lakeview Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the New Lakeview Cemetery
• Boyd / Turney / Christie Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 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.<2>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Boyd / Turney / Christie Cemetery
• Pleasantview Memorial Gardens
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • The Pleasantview Memorial Gardens has also been known as:
  • Pleasantview Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pleasantview Memorial Gardens
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #639408 <3>
• Homer Anglican Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 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
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • 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>
• Immaculate Conception RC Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Immaculate Conception RC Cemetery
• Continue List   (250 more) ...
  • St. Paul's Anglican Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • The St. Paul's Anglican Cemetery has also been known as:
    • St. Paul's Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Paul's Anglican Cemetery
  • Lundy's Lane Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 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 <3>
  • Nicholas Smith Family Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • 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

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Thorold: www.thorold.com/

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