Sometimes Lin does field research. He once edited a history covering the 280-year past of his hometown, Hsinchuangtzu. He also worked on a survey of the (now assimilated) Pingpu aboriginal people in central Taiwan, discovering stone coffin burial sites at Shihtunkeng near Puli.
有時間林金連也做田野調查，他曾經為自己家鄉新莊子整理出二百八十年的鄉史；還從事過中部地區平埔族的調查，發現埔里石墩坑石棺墓葬遺址。