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 Brooks Mill (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 Brooks Mill. 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 Brooks Mill ...
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.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.
- A typical abbreviation for Brooks Mill: Brooks Ml. (or less commonly used: Brooks Mll.)
- While the name of this community is Brooks Mill, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Brooks Mill may originally have been Brook's Mill.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Brooks Mill might be written as Brook Mill.
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.
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 Brooks Mill:
- Websites specific to Ontario
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
Cemeteries Near Brooks Mill ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Brooks Mill.
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 Brooks Mill covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Brooks Mill, with the one closest to Brooks Mill listed first.
- Mizpah Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Mizpah Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mizpah Cemetery
- Dwight Union Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Hutcheson Memorial Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- St. Andrew's Presbyterian Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- St. Andrew's United Church Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Holy Trinity Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Sand Lake Pioneer Log Church Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Yearley Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Burk's Falls Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Moores Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Moores Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Moores Cemetery is located between<4> the communities of Beatrice and Bracebridge. The cemetery lies 3 miles [4.8 km]<5> to the southeast of Beatrice.
- The Moores Cemetery has also been known as:
- Moore Pioneer Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Moores Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2388820 <3>
- Langford Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- George Kirk Memorial Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the George Kirk Memorial Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
- To give a relative sense of its location, the George Kirk Memorial Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<5> to the south of Bracebridge.
- The George Kirk Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
- Kirk Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the George Kirk Memorial Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2337292 <3>
- Baptist Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Brooks Mill. See our List of 1890's Communities around Brooks Mill.
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Brooks Mill. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <2> | 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. |
| <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> | To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Beatrice and Bracebridge. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location. |
| <5> | 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- Brooks Mill) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Brooks Mill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.4222, Longitude: -79.0172 |