Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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

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 Utopia Centre: Utopia Ctre.

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.

Cemeteries Near Utopia Centre ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Utopia Centre.

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

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

Pennfield Presbyterian Kirk Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pennfield Presbyterian Kirk Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Pennfield Presbyterian Kirk Cemetery is located in Pennfield.
- The Pennfield Presbyterian Kirk Cemetery has also been known as:
- Kirk Pennfield Church Cemetery
- Pennfield Kirk Presbyterian Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2224904 <2>
Presbyterian Kirk Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Presbyterian Kirk Cemetery
Pennfield Rural Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pennfield Rural Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Pennfield Rural Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Pennfield.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2279327 <2>
St. George's Catholic Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. George's Catholic Cemetery
Christ Church Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Christ Church Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Christ Church Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Pennfield.
- The Christ Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- Anglican Church Cemetery
- Christ Church Anglican Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2356542 <2>
Pennfield United Baptist Church Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pennfield United Baptist Church Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Pennfield United Baptist Church Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Pennfield.
- The Pennfield United Baptist Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- Baptist United Church Cemetery
- United Baptist Cemetery
- United Baptist Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2439362 <2>
St. George Catholic Church Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. George Catholic Church Cemetery
First Community Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the First Community Cemetery
St. George Rural Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. George Rural Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2270469 <2>
Harbour View Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Harbour View Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Harbour View Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<3> to the north of Beaver Harbour.
Blacks Harbour Community Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Blacks Harbour Community Cemetery
- The Blacks Harbour Community Cemetery has also been known as:
- Black's Harbour Baptist Cemetery
- Blacks Harbour Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2280388 <2>
Stella Maris RC Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stella Maris RC Cemetery
Continue List (56 more) ...
- Second Falls Baptist Church Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Second Falls Baptist Church Cemetery
- Second Falls United Baptist Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Second Falls United Baptist Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2208997 <2>
- Church of the Transfiguration Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Church of the Transfiguration Cemetery

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

Newspapers Published in Utopia Centre ...

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 22 newspapers that have been published in the area around Utopia Centre.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Utopia Centre, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Utopia Centre.

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 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 Utopia Centre:

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

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 Utopia Centre and then turned east". While Utopia Centre could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Utopia Centre 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Utopia Centre 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 Utopia Centre.
<2>	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.
<3>	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 drawn from Point A (ie- Utopia Centre) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Utopia Centre. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.1500, Longitude: -66.7333