Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Penney's Room during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Penney's Room 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 Penney's Room (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 Penney's Room. 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.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Penney's Room:
- Websites specific to Quebec
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Quebec
Cemeteries Near Penney's Room ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Penney's Room.
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 Penney's Room covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Penney's Room, with the one closest to Penney's Room listed first.
- Anglican Cemetery, Forteau
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Anglican Cemetery, Forteau. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Anglican Cemetery, Forteau
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2621559 <3>
- Forteau United Church Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Forteau United Church Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Forteau United Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2621563 <3>
- English Point Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the English Point Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the English Point Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2621564 <3>
- L'Anse Amour Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the L'Anse Amour Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the L'Anse Amour Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2481393 <3>
- L'Anse au Diable Catholic Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the L'Anse au Diable Catholic Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
- The L'Anse au Diable Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
- L'Anse au Diable RC Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the L'Anse au Diable Catholic Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2278882 <3>
- St. John the Evangelist Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the St. John the Evangelist Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. John the Evangelist Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2657453 <3>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Penney's Room. See our List of 1890's Communities around Penney's Room.
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 Penney's Room and then turned west". While Penney's Room could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Penney's Room 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Penney's Room 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 Penney's Room. |
| <2> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
| <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. |