Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

Although we found mention of Low Forest during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Low Forest was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..

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 Low Forest (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 Low Forest. 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.

Name Variations for Low Forest ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Low Forest: Low Frst.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

Newspapers Published in Low Forest ...

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 3 newspapers that have been published in the area around Low Forest.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Low Forest, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Low Forest.

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 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 Low Forest:

Websites specific to Quebec
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search

Cemetery Information and Directories for Quebec
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Quebec
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Quebec
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Quebec
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Quebec

Cemeteries Near Low Forest ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Low Forest.

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

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

Notre Dame Du St. Rosaire
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- The Notre Dame Du St. Rosaire has also been known as:
- Cimetiere Catholique De Sawyerville
- Sawyerville Catholic Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Notre Dame Du St. Rosaire
Grove Hill Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grove Hill Cemetery
East Clifton Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the East Clifton Cemetery
Martinville Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Martinville Cemetery
Ives Hill Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ives Hill Cemetery
St. Malo Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Malo Cemetery
Ascot Corner Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ascot Corner Cemetery
Ascot Corner Pioneer Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ascot Corner Pioneer Cemetery
Malvern Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Malvern Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2170395 <3>
St. Antoine Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- The St. Antoine Cemetery has also been known as:
- Cimetiere Catholique St. Antonine
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Antoine Cemetery
Westbury Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Westbury Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2371453 <3>
Bown Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bown Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2534145 <3>
Continue List (41 more) ...
- St. Michel Cemetery
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Michel Cemetery
- Elmwood Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Elmwood Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2212405 <3>
- North Hatley Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  - The North Hatley Cemetery has also been known as:
  - Reedsville Cemetery
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the North Hatley Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Province of Quebec: https://www.quebec.ca/

Footnotes ...

<1>	If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Low Forest and then turned west". While Low Forest could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Low Forest as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Low Forest could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. Since confusion between is common, we searched and weren't able to find another Quebec community named Low Forest.
<2>	Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Low Forest) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Low Forest. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.3200, Longitude: -71.6172
<3>	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.