Our Genealogy Helper for Brooksdale ...
Although we found mention of Brooksdale during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Brooksdale was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool that can help us with planning our trips.
- That it also helps us to understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
By learning about Brooksdale (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 Brooksdale. 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.
It's still very early in our research, but as we gather more information it will be added to this page.
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 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 Brooksdale:
- Websites specific to Ontario
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Ontario
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Ontario
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Ontario
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Ontario
- Of Special Interest ...
- The GenDisasters website specializes in newspaper articles about tragedies and disasters. While it makes interesting reading all by itself, it should be of special interest to genealogists and family historians looking for people who were either affected by or directly involved in such tragedies.
- Stories from Ontario
Cemeteries Near Brooksdale ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Brooksdale.
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 Brooksdale covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
- Knox Presbyterian Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Knox Presbyterian Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Knox Presbyterian Cemetery
- Broadview United Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Broadview United Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Broadview United Cemetery
- Town Line Methodist Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Town Line Methodist Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Town Line Methodist Cemetery
- Lakeside Methodist Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lakeside Methodist Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Lakeside Methodist Cemetery
- Christ Church Anglican Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Christ Church Anglican Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Christ Church Anglican Cemetery
- North Embro Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the North Embro Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on North Embro Cemetery
- Find-A-Grave: FAG ID #2315936<2>
- Continue List ...
- Methodist Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Methodist Cemetery
- Methodist Cemetery has also been known as:
- South Embro Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Methodist Cemetery
- East Zorra Baptist Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the East Zorra Baptist Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on East Zorra Baptist Cemetery
- McTavish Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McTavish Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on McTavish Cemetery
- Find-A-Grave: FAG ID #2220150<2>
- Gregory Family Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gregory Family Cemetery
- The Gregory Family Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Uniondale.
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Gregory Family Cemetery
- Scottish Pioneer Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Scottish Pioneer Cemetery
- Scottish Pioneer Cemetery lies 6 miles [9.7 km]<3> to the south of Brooksdale.
- Scottish Pioneer Cemetery has also been known as:
- Halliday Cemetery
- Holiday Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Scottish Pioneer Cemetery
- Find-A-Grave: FAG ID #2616860<2>
- Old Log Church Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Log Church Cemetery
- Old Log Church Cemetery lies 6 miles [9.7 km]<3> to the southeast of Brooksdale.
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Old Log Church Cemetery
- Vandecar Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Vandecar Cemetery
- Vandecar Cemetery lies 6 miles [9.7 km]<3> to the east of Brooksdale.
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Vandecar Cemetery
- Trinity Anglican Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Trinity Anglican Cemetery
- Trinity Anglican Cemetery lies 6 miles [9.7 km]<3> to the northeast of Brooksdale.
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Trinity Anglican Cemetery
- Amish Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Amish Cemetery
- Amish Cemetery lies 7 miles [11.3 km]<3> to the west of Brooksdale.
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Amish Cemetery
- Methodist Cemetery
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Brooksdale. See our List of 1890's Communities around Brooksdale.
Other Roadside Stops ...
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.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 Brooksdale and then turned east". While Brooksdale could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Brooksdale 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Brooksdale 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 Ontario community named Brooksdale. |
| <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> | 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 from Point A (ie- Brooksdale) to Point B. If you need the driving distance, we recommend that you use one of the Mapping Services listed on our Map Page for Brooksdale. Since we usually use Google Maps, we've provided the following link for your convenience: Google Map and Driving Directions starting from Brooksdale Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Brooksdale. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.2272, Longitude: -80.9367 |