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 Rock Island (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 Rock Island. 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 Rock Island ...

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 Rock Island: Rock Is. (in Canada, 'Isld.' is the more common abbreviation.)

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 Rock Island ...

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 1 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rock Island.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rock Island, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Rock Island.

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 helpful 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 Rock Island:

• 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 Rock Island ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rock Island.

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

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

• Fortin Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fortin Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fortin Cemetery
• Derby Line Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Derby Line Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Derby Line Cemetery
• Cowles - Chace Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cowles - Chace Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cowles - Chace Cemetery
• Crystal Lake Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Crystal Lake Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Stanstead.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Crystal Lake Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2168763 <3>
• Morrill - Darling Hill Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Morrill - Darling Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Morrill - Darling Hill Cemetery
• Tice - Marston - Moon Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Tice - Marston - Moon Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tice - Marston - Moon Cemetery
• Tice - Marston Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Tice - Marston Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tice - Marston Cemetery
• Moon Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Moon Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Moon Cemetery
• Beebe Main Street Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beebe Main Street Cemetery
• Derby Center Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Derby Center Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located
  • The Derby Center Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Darby Center Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Derby Center Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #103971 <3>
• Caswellboro Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Caswellboro Cemetery
• Moulton Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Moulton Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2266936 <3>
• Continue List   (179 more) ...
  • Griffin Hill Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Griffin Hill Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2193359 <3>
  • Gilman - Knight Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gilman - Knight Cemetery
  • Kelsey Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kelsey Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kelsey Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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