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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 Barclay (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 Barclay. 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.

Cemeteries Near Barclay ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Barclay.

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 Barclay - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Wabigoon Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wabigoon Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Wabigoon Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Wabigoon.
    • The Wabigoon Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Wabigon Community Cemetery
    • Wabigon Community Twp. Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2581002 <1>
  • Dryden Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dryden Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Dryden Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the north of Dryden.
    • The Dryden Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Dryden Municipal Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2163174 <1>
  • Saint George's Anglican Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Trinity Lutheran Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Oxdrift Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Minnitaki Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Minnitaki Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Minnitaki Cemetery is located 5 miles [8 km]<2> to the east of Eagle River.
  • Mountainview Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mountainview Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mountainview Cemetery is located 10 miles [16.1 km]<2> to the southeast of Dinorwic.
    • The Mountainview Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Dyment Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2551331 <1>
  • Eagle River Cemetry East
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Gold Rock Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gold Rock Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Gold Rock Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Gold Rock Cemetery is located 23 miles [37 km]<2> to the south of Dryden.
  • Eagle River Cemetry West
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
  • Waldhof Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Waldhof Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Waldhof Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<2> to the east of Waldhof.
  • Vermilion Bay Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Vermilion Bay Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Vermilion Bay Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<2> to the east of Vermilion Bay.

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

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 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 Barclay:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Barclay) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Barclay. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 49.7667, Longitude: -92.7000    
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.