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 Wyntoon (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 Wyntoon. 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.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Wyntoon is located in Siskiyou County.
To see how the shape of California's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Siskiyou County: Del Norte, Humboldt, Modoc, Shasta, Trinity, Jackson (OR), Josephine (OR) & Klamath (OR).
Below are the counties that are near Wyntoon. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Wyntoon:
- Siskiyou County (The home county of Wyntoon)
- The following are listed by their distance from Wyntoon, with the one closest to Wyntoon listed first.
- McCloud
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Algoma ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Algoma is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Algoma
- Dunsmuir
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Shasta Springs
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Shasta Springs is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shasta Springs
- Cantara ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Cantara is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cantara
- Mount Shasta
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Slagger ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Slagger is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slagger
- Hambone ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Hambone is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hambone
- Carrick
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Carrick is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrick
- Weed
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Edgewood
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Edgewood is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewood
- Cougar ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Cougar is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cougar
- Tennant
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Tennant is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tennant
- Shasta County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wyntoon, with the one closest to Wyntoon listed first.
- Castle Crags ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Castle Crags is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Crags
- Castella
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Big Bend
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Big Bend is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Bend
- Former names for Big Bend:
- Elena
- Henderson
- Indian Springs
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Big Bend <1>
- Conant ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Conant is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conant
- Sweetbriar
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Sweetbriar is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetbriar
- Flume ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Flume is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flume
- Sims
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Sims is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sims
- Wengler
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Wengler is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wengler
- Fisher ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Fisher is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisher
- Gibson ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Gibson is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibson
- Pineland ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Pineland is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pineland
- Pollard Flat
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Pollard Flat is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pollard Flat
- Hatchet Mountain ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Hatchet Mountain is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatchet Mountain
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Wyntoon, see our County-by-County Page for Wyntoon.
Cemeteries Near Wyntoon ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wyntoon.
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.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Wyntoon - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Wyntoon covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Wyntoon, with the one closest to Wyntoon listed first.
- McCloud Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Dunsmuir Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Mt. Shasta Memorial Park
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Cove Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Winema Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Pioneer Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Burney Falls Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Delta Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delta Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Delta Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Delta.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2291419 <2>
- Dana Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Halcumb Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Arbaugh - Dunlap Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<3>
While we didn't find Wyntoon in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Wyntoon.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Wyntoon, with the one closest to Wyntoon listed first.
- McCloud
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Dunsmuir
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Mott
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Mott is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mott
- Cantara ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Cantara is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cantara
- Sims
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Sims is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sims
- Gibson ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Gibson is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibson
- Igerna
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Igerna is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Igerna
- Lamoine
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Lamoine is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamoine
- Former names for Lamoine:
- Slate Creek
- Slatonis
- Cayton
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Cayton is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cayton
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Delta
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Delta is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delta
- Former name for Delta:
- Bayles
- Montgomery Creek
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Dana
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Dana is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dana
- Edgewood
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Edgewood is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewood
- Round Mountain
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Ydaloom ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Ydaloom is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ydaloom
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Wyntoon. See our List of 1890's Communities around Wyntoon.
Newspapers Published in Wyntoon ...
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 23 newspapers that have been published in the area around Wyntoon.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Wyntoon, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Wyntoon.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Wyntoon:
- Websites specific to California
- Pages specific to Siskiyou County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for California
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <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> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Wyntoon, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Wyntoon) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |