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 Welland (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 Welland. 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 Welland ...

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 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around Welland.

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

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 websites either 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 Welland:

• 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 Welland ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Welland.

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

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

• Japanese Martyrs RC Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • The Japanese Martyrs RC Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Church Street RC Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Japanese Martyrs RC Cemetery
• Smith Street / Holy Trinity Anglican Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • The Smith Street / Holy Trinity Anglican Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Holy Trinity Anglican Cemetery
  • Holy Trinity Anglican Columbarium
  • Smith Street Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Smith Street / Holy Trinity Anglican Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2561457 <2>
• Woodlawn Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • The Woodlawn Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Woodlawn Municipal Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Woodlawn Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2138153 <2>
• Holy Cross Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • The Holy Cross Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Holy Cross RC Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Cross Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2316521 <2>
• O'Reilly's Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • The O'Reilly's Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Park Family Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the O'Reilly's Cemetery
• Doan's Ridge Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Doan's Ridge Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Welland.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Doan's Ridge Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2158966 <2>
• Fonthill Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • The Fonthill Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Fonthill Municipal Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fonthill Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2284915 <2>
• St. Paul's Anglican Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • 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
• Pelham Evangelical Friends Church Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • The Pelham Evangelical Friends Church Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Friends Brick Church Cemetery
  • Pelham Evangelical Friends Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pelham Evangelical Friends Church Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2314025 <2>
• Hicksite Burial Ground
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Hicksite Burial Ground. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hicksite Burial Ground
• Clarke Family Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Clarke Family Cemetery
• Immaculate Conception RC Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Immaculate Conception RC Cemetery
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  • Pleasantview Memorial Gardens
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • 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 <2>
  • Hillside Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Hillside Cemetery is located in Pelham.
    • The Hillside Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Dawdy Burial Ground
    • Dawdy Cemetery
    • Dawdy's Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hillside Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2189998 <2>
  • Overholt Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • The Overholt Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery
    • Overholt / Bethel Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Overholt Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2230621 <2>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Welland: www.welland.ca/

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