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 Surprise Valley (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 Surprise Valley. 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 Surprise Valley ...

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 Surprise Valley: Surprise Vly. (or less commonly used: Surprise Vally. or Surprise Vlly.)

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 Surprise Valley ...

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 10 newspapers that have been published in the area around Surprise Valley.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Surprise Valley, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Surprise Valley.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Surprise Valley:

• 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 Surprise Valley ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Surprise Valley.

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

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

• Chapel Grove Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Chapel Grove Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<1> to the south of Minton.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chapel Grove Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2232072 <2>
• Wankel Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Wankel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wankel Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #21157 <2>
• St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery
• Ceylon Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Ceylon Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Ceylon.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ceylon Cemetery
• Highland Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Highland Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Highland Cemetery
• Christensen Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Christensen Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Christensen Cemetery
• Dooley Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Dooley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dooley Cemetery
• McCall - Gibson Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McCall - Gibson Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #20985 <2>
• Radville / Laurier Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Radville / Laurier Cemetery is located outside and to the west of Radville.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Radville / Laurier Cemetery
• Lone Tree Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lone Tree Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #20976 <2>
• Emmanuel Lutheran Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Emmanuel Lutheran Cemetery
• Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • The Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Emmanuel Lutheran Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2590461 <2>
• Continue List   (19 more) ...
  • Trail Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Trail Cemetery
  • Comertown Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Comertown Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Comertown (MT).
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Comertown Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #20825 <2>
  • Our Saviors Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Our Saviors Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #21030 <2>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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