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 Ventnor (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 Ventnor. 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 Ventnor ...

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 49 newspapers that have been published in the area around Ventnor.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Ventnor, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Ventnor.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Ventnor:

• 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 Ventnor ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Ventnor.

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

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

• South Mountain Union Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • The South Mountain Union Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Union Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the South Mountain Union Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2353787 <2>
• South Gower Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the South Gower Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1973889 <2>
• Dixons Corners South / Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dixons Corners South / Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery
• South Dixon's Corners Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the South Dixon's Corners Cemetery
• Oxford Mills Union Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • The Oxford Mills Union Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Oxford Mills United Presbyterian Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oxford Mills Union Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2353456 <2>
• Bishop's Mills Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bishop's Mills Cemetery
• Spruce Haven Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Spruce Haven Cemetery
• Johnstown Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • The Johnstown Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Common Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Johnstown Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2342889 <2>
• O'Neill Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the O'Neill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the O'Neill Cemetery
• Iroquois United Church Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • The Iroquois United Church Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Iroquois Point Cemetery
  • Iroquois Presbyterian Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Iroquois United Church Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2630505 <2>
• Maynard Cemetery
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Maynard Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2161791 <2>
• St. Mark's RC Cemetery
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Mark's RC Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2273319 <2>
• Continue List   (130 more) ...
  • Briggs Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Briggs Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Briggs Cemetery
  • Livingston Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Livingston Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Livingston Cemetery
  • Kemptville Public Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Kemptville Public Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Kemptville.
    • The Kemptville Public Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Kemptville Cemetery
    • Kemptville Union Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kemptville Public Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2190814 <2>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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