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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 Lind (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 Lind. 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.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Lind is located in Waupaca County.

To see how the shape of Wisconsin's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Waupaca County: Marathon, Outagamie, Portage, Shawano, Waushara & Winnebago.

Below are the counties that are near Lind. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Lind:

  • Waupaca County     (The home county of Lind)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lind, with the one closest to Lind listed first.
    • Waupaca
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Waupaca is located in Waupaca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waupaca
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,857 people
    • King
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Rural
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Weyauwega
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Weyauwega is located in Waupaca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weyauwega
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,745 people
    • Gills Landing
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Baldwins Mill
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Fremont
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Cobb Town
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Cobb Town is located in Waupaca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cobb Town
    • Sheridan
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Ogdensburg
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Ogdensburg is located in Waupaca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogdensburg
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 175 people
    • Little Wolf ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Ostrander
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Scandinavia
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Scandinavia is located in Waupaca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scandinavia
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 349 people
  • Adams County
  • Green Lake County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lind, with the one closest to Lind listed first.
    • Berlin
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Princeton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Marquette County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lind, with the one closest to Lind listed first.
    • Neshkoro
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Neshkoro is located in Marquette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neshkoro
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 425 people
    • Germania
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Outagamie County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lind, with the one closest to Lind listed first.
    • Hortonville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Medina
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Bear Creek
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Bear Creek is located in Outagamie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Creek
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 439 people
    • Greenville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Greenville is located in Outagamie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenville
    • Shiocton
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Shiocton is located in Outagamie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shiocton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 914 people
  • Portage County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lind, with the one closest to Lind listed first.
    • Blaine
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Amherst
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Almond
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Amherst Junction
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Amherst Junction is located in Portage County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amherst Junction
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 392 people
    • Lake Emily ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Nelsonville
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Arnott
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Garfield
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Custer
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Alban
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Polonia
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Rosholt
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Rosholt is located in Portage County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosholt
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 481 people
    • Plover
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Plover is located in Portage County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plover
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,252 people
  • Shawano County
  • Waushara County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lind, with the one closest to Lind listed first.
    • West Bloomfield
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Saxeville
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Pine River
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Poy Sippi
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Wild Rose
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Mount Morris
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Lohrville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Lohrville is located in Waushara County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lohrville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 389 people
    • Redgranite
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Silver Lake
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Silver Lake is located in Waushara County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Lake
    • Wautoma
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Wautoma is located in Waushara County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wautoma
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,114 people
    • Rodney ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Rodney is located in Waushara County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rodney
    • Plainfield
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Plainfield is located in Waushara County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 832 people
    • Hancock
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Hancock is located in Waushara County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hancock
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 402 people
  • Winnebago County

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Lind, see our County-by-County Page for Lind.

Cemeteries Near Lind ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lind.

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

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

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

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 Lind in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Lind.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Lind ...

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 120 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lind.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lind, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lind.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 Lind:

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 Lind, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 from Point A (ie- Lind) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.