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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 Wyckoff Gardens (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 Wyckoff Gardens. 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 Wyckoff Gardens ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Wyckoff Gardens: Wyckoff Gdns. (or less commonly used: Wyckoff Gardns., Wyckoff Grdens. or Wyckoff Grdns.)

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.

Cemeteries Near Wyckoff Gardens ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wyckoff Gardens.

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 Wyckoff Gardens - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Wyckoff Gardens covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Quaker Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Green - Wood Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green - Wood Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Green - Wood Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Brooklyn.
    • The Green - Wood Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Greenwood Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #64718 <1>
  • Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • First Shearith Israel Graveyard
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • St. Paul's Churchyard Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Trinity Churchyard Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • New York City Marble Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Second Cemetery of the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Holy Cross Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • New York Marble Cemetery, 2nd Ave
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Barkaloo Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
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    • Washington Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • The Evergreens Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Evergreens Cemetery
      • The Evergreens Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Cemetery of the Evergreens
    • Most Holy Trinity Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Most Holy Trinity Cemetery
      • The Most Holy Trinity Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Henicke Cemetery
      • Holy Trinity Cemetery

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.<2>

While we didn't find Wyckoff Gardens in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Wyckoff Gardens.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Wyckoff Gardens, with the one closest to Wyckoff Gardens listed first.

  • New York
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • New York is located in Kings County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New York
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,253,213 people
  • Brooklyn
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Flatbush
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Flatbush is located in Kings County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flatbush
  • Williamsburg
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Williamsburg is located in Kings County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williamsburg
  • Parkville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Parkville is located in Kings County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkville
  • Bushwick
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Bushwick is located in Kings County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bushwick
  • Greenpoint
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Greenpoint is located in Kings County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenpoint
  • Jersey City
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jersey City is located in Hudson County (NJ)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jersey City
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 262,664 people
  • Bay Ridge
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Bay Ridge is located in Kings County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bay Ridge
  • New Utrecht
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • New Utrecht is located in Kings County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Utrecht
  • Flatlands
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Flatlands is located in Kings County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flatlands
  • Ridgewood
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
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    • Fresh Pond
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Fresh Pond is located in Queens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fresh Pond
    • Hoboken
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Hoboken is located in Hudson County (NJ)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoboken
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 53,081 people
    • Blissville
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Blissville is located in Queens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blissville

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

Newspapers Published in Wyckoff Gardens ...

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 112 newspapers that have been published in the area around Wyckoff Gardens.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Wyckoff Gardens, there are papers which were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Wyckoff Gardens.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Wyckoff Gardens:

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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 Wyckoff Gardens, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Wyckoff Gardens) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.