Klondyke Cemetery

It's been a while since I wrote something on this blog.  I wondered what could I write about.  Then the thought came to mind that I could write about the different cemeteries in Barrhead County.

A cemetery we had copied back in 1994 was the Klondyke or Doris-Timeu Cemetery.  It is located at NW 7 63 4 W5 northeast of Fort Assiniboine, Alberta. At that time there were about six or seven rows. Some of the family names buried there are as follows: Ashby, Anderson, Chaney, Cooper, Ehl, Graham, Hughes, McKeigue, Marcel, Mitchell, Mowery, Nelson, Nickols(Nichols), Schulte, Sheren, Thom, Thiede and Utas.

The local history book "Echoe's of Fort Assiniboine & Districts" written in 1982 has a story written about Klondike City - Now Doris. You can find this book online: http://www.ourroots.ca
Go to "browse" and choose the letters in the title.   (http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=7546)

On page 69 you will find the story by Fern Rader about Klondike City.  The earliest settlers in the district were Ollie Finstead and Anton Holmes.  In 1924 Mrs. Elmer Nichols died in childbirth at a nursing home in Westlock. The mother and baby were buried in a corner of the yard, and were the first graves in the present cemetery.  Read the rest of the story on pages 70-72.

Obituary Collection - 1928-2009

I have a collection of obituaries from the Barrhead newspapers, from 1928-2009. Are you looking for names and dates of family members who lived in the Barrhead area?  Please send me an e-mail, and I will look if I have them in my database.

Provincial Archives

The Provincial Archives of Alberta is another valuable place to do research. It is located in Edmonton at 8555 Roper Road, T6E 5W1. Find more information at these websites: www.cd.gov.ab.ca or www.servicealberta.ca

Alberta Genealogy Society

The Alberta Genealogical Society was founded in 1973 to promote the study of genealogy and genealogical research in the province of Alberta. Find out about events, services and membership at: http://abgensoc.ca/

Newspapers

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Newspapers can be important sources for family researchers. They contain stories of people's achievements, new businesses, graduations, announcements of births, marriages and deaths. Check out the Barrhead Leader at: www.barrheadleader.com

Tracing Your Roots

Finding out where a person was born, where he married, where he died and was buried is helpful information to locating where our families lived. Then we can find the location of birth certificates, church records, cemetery records, census, land records and so on. And that can be very exciting!

Local History Book

Check out Barrhead's local history book: Our Golden Years online:
http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/toc.aspx?id=4191

or you can search for history books at the following website:  http://www.ourroots.ca/