Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Silverdale during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> We believe that Silverdale had a post office at one time. We have done a cursory search and haven't been able to find any evidence that the community 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 Silverdale (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 Silverdale. 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 Silverdale ...
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 27 newspapers that have been published in the area around Silverdale.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Silverdale, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Silverdale.
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 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 Silverdale:
- Websites specific to British Columbia
- Cemetery Information and Directories for British Columbia
Cemeteries Near Silverdale ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Silverdale.
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 Silverdale covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Silverdale, with the one closest to Silverdale listed first.
- Mt. Lehman Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Aberdeen Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Hatzic Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- MacLure Road Mennonite Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Hazelwood Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Ft. Langley Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- South Poplar Mennonite Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Musselwhite Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Murrayville Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Murrayville Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Murrayville.
- The Murrayville Cemetery has also been known as:
- Historic Murrayville Cemetery
- Langley Prairie Cemetery
- Odd Fellows Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Murrayville Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2136809 <3>
- Maple Ridge Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Langley Lawn Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Berthusen Memorial Park
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Berthusen Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Berthusen Memorial Park
- Continue List (44 more) ...
- Indian Joe Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Indian Joe Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Indian Joe Cemetery
- Monumenta Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Hazelmere Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Silverdale. See our List of 1890's Communities around Silverdale.
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Province of British Columbia: https://www.gov.bc.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 Silverdale and then turned west". While Silverdale could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Silverdale 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 Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller Creek 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 Silverdale 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 British Columbia community named Silverdale. |
| <2> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Silverdale) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Silverdale. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 49.1500, Longitude: -122.4000 |
| <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. |
| <4> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |