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 Steelman (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 Steelman. 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 Steelman ...

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 6 newspapers that have been published in the area around Steelman.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Steelman, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Steelman.

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 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 Steelman:

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

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

Cemeteries Near Steelman ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Steelman.

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

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

Maryland RC Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Maryland RC Cemetery
Hirsch Community Jewish Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hirsch Community Jewish Cemetery
Elm Lawn Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- The Elm Lawn Cemetery has also been known as:
- Elm Lawn RC Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Elm Lawn Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2168765 <2>
Bienfait Civic Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Bienfait Civic Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Bienfait.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bienfait Civic Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2181797 <2>
Alameda Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Alameda Cemetery is located outside and to the southeast of Alameda.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Alameda Cemetery
Woodley Cromar Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Woodley Cromar Cemetery is located between<3> the communities of Benson and Lampman. The cemetery lies 6 miles [9.7 km]<1> to the west of Lampman.
- The Woodley Cromar Cemetery has also been known as:
- Sacred Heart Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Woodley Cromar Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2457652 <2>
Taylorton Heritage Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Taylorton Heritage Cemetery
North Portal Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the North Portal Cemetery
Oxbow Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Oxbow Cemetery is located outside and to the west of Oxbow.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oxbow Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2195962 <2>
Estevan City Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- The Estevan City Cemetery has also been known as:
- Estevan Civic Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Estevan City Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2154883 <2>
Snaasen Pioneer Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Snaasen Pioneer Cemetery
East Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the East Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Portal (ND).
- The East Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. John the Baptist Catholic Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the East Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #101870 <2>
Continue List (17 more) ...
- Benson Sacred Heart RC Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Benson Sacred Heart RC Cemetery
- Souris Valley Memorial Gardens
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
  - To give a relative sense of its location, the Souris Valley Memorial Gardens is a large cemetery that is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<1> to the southeast of Estevan.
  - The Souris Valley Memorial Gardens has also been known as:
  - Estevan Memorial Gardens
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Souris Valley Memorial Gardens
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2185746 <2>
- South Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  - The South Cemetery has also been known as:
  - Portal Cemetery
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the South Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #102590 <2>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

The official website for Province of Saskatchewan: www.saskatchewan.ca/

Footnotes ...

<1>	Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Steelman) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Steelman. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 49.3000, Longitude: -102.6000
<2>	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.
<3>	To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Benson and Lampman. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location.