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 Lyn (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 Lyn. 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.

Newspapers Published in Lyn ...

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 46 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lyn.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lyn, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lyn.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Lyn:

• 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

Cemeteries Near Lyn ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lyn.

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 Lyn covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

• Lyn Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Lyn Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Lyn.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lyn Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2237356 <2>
• Howard Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Howard Cemetery
• Old St. Peters Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • The Old St. Peters Cemetery has also been known as:
  • St. Peter's Anglican Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old St. Peters Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2279513 <2>
• Old Protestant Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • The Old Protestant Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Brockville Old Protestant Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Protestant Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2279513 <2>
• Oakland Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Oakland Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Brockville.
  • The Oakland Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Oakland Anglican and Protestant Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oakland Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1791202 <2>
• St. Francis Xavier Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Francis Xavier Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2175090 <2>
• Yonge Mills Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • The Yonge Mills Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Yonge Mills Stone Church Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Yonge Mills Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2321192 <2>
• Glen Buell Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Glen Buell Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2314403 <2>
• Caintown Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Caintown Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2317855 <2>
• Greenwood Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Greenwood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Greenwood Cemetery
• Pine Hill Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pine Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pine Hill Cemetery
• Sunnyside Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunnyside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunnyside Cemetery
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  • Mallorytown United Church Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • The Mallorytown United Church Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Mallory Town Cemetery
    • Mallorytown Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mallorytown United Church Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2255580 <2>
  • Pleasant Valley Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pleasant Valley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pleasant Valley Cemetery
  • Manhard Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Manhard Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2223739 <2>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Lyn. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/