Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

Although we found mention of Oak Haven during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Oak Haven 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 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 Oak Haven (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 Oak Haven. 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 Oak Haven ...

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 Oak Haven: Oak Hvn. (or less commonly used: Oak Havn.)

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 Oak Haven ...

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 18 newspapers that have been published in the area around Oak Haven.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Oak Haven, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Oak Haven.

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 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 Oak Haven:

Websites specific to New Brunswick
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search

Cemetery Information and Directories for New Brunswick
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of New Brunswick
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of New Brunswick
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of New Brunswick
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of New Brunswick

Cemeteries Near Oak Haven ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Oak Haven.

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

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

Calais Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Calais Cemetery
Calais Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Calais Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #89708 <3>
Oak Bay Rural Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- The Oak Bay Rural Cemetery has also been known as:
- Oak Bay Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oak Bay Rural Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2208504 <3>
Bartletts Mills Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Bartletts Mills Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<2> to the northwest of Oak Bay.
- The Bartletts Mills Cemetery has also been known as:
- Bartlett Family Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bartletts Mills Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2246144 <3>
St. Stephen Rural Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Stephen Rural Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1909851 <3>
Sandy Point Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sandy Point Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2207901 <3>
Waweig United Church Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Waweig United Church Cemetery
Old Ridge United Church of Canada Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Ridge United Church of Canada Cemetery
Milltown Catholic Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- The Milltown Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
- Milltown RC Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Milltown Catholic Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2266094 <3>
St. David Heritage Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. David Heritage Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2503985 <3>
Bayside United Baptist Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Bayside United Baptist Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Bayside.
- The Bayside United Baptist Cemetery has also been known as:
- Bayside Baptist Cemetery
- Bayside United Baptist Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bayside United Baptist Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2511464 <3>
Moores Mills Annex Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- The Moores Mills Annex Cemetery has also been known as:
- Moores Mill Annex Cemetery
- Moores Mills New Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Moores Mills Annex Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2464028 <3>
Continue List (51 more) ...
- Moores Mills Rural Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  - To give a relative sense of its location, the Moores Mills Rural Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Moores Mills.
  - The Moores Mills Rural Cemetery has also been known as:
  - Moores Mill Cemetery
  - Moores Mills Cemetery
  - Moores Mills Old Cemetery
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Moores Mills Rural Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2208955 <3>
- Chapel of Ease of St. John the Baptist Church Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  - The Chapel of Ease of St. John the Baptist Church Cemetery has also been known as:
  - St. John The Baptist Chapel of Ease Cemetery
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chapel of Ease of St. John the Baptist Church Cemetery
- Brewer Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  - Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Brewer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brewer Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Province of New Brunswick: https://www.gnb.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 north past Oak Haven and then turned east". While Oak Haven could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Oak Haven 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 Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller 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 Oak Haven 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 New Brunswick community named Oak Haven.
<2>	Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Oak Haven) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oak Haven. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.2000, Longitude: -67.2000
<3>	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.
<4>	The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.