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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 Saint John Harbor (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 Saint John Harbor. 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 Saint John Harbor ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Saint John Harbor: St. John Hbr. (or less commonly used: St. John Harb. or St. John Hrbr.)

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.

Newspapers Published in Saint John Harbor ...

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 11 newspapers that have been published in the area around Saint John Harbor.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Saint John Harbor, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Saint John Harbor.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Saint John Harbor:

Cemeteries Near Saint John Harbor ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Saint John Harbor.

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).

  • Petersburg Memorial Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Petersburg Memorial Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Petersburg.
    • The Petersburg Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Turn Point Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Petersburg Memorial Cemetery

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

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

The official website for State of Alaska: alaska.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>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- Saint John Harbor) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Saint John Harbor. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 56.4397, Longitude: -132.9636       In this case, the coordinates for Saint John Harbor have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 09 Mar 2024