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 Waterton (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 Waterton. 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 Waterton ...

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 20 newspapers that have been published in the area around Waterton.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Waterton, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Waterton.

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 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 Waterton:

• 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 Waterton ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Waterton.

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

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

• Escott Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Escott Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Escott.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Escott Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2328632 <2>
• Union Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Union Cemetery
• Mallorytown United Church Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • The Mallorytown United Church Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Mallory Town Cemetery
  • Mallorytown Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mallorytown United Church Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2255580 <2>
• Church Street Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Church Street Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Church Street Cemetery
• Highland Park Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Highland Park Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Highland Park Cemetery
• St. Cyriel Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Cyriel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Cyriel Cemetery
• Caintown Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Caintown Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2317855 <2>
• Cross Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cross Cemetery
• Riverside Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Riverside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverside Cemetery
• Houghton Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Houghton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Houghton Cemetery
• Barnes Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Barnes Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Barnes Cemetery
• Yonge Mills Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • The Yonge Mills Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Yonge Mills Stone Church Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Yonge Mills Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2321192 <2>
• Continue List   (145 more) ...
  • Marble Rock Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Marble Rock Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2319373 <2>
  • Hill Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hill Cemetery
  • McDonald Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the McDonald Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McDonald Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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