Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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

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 Indian Fields: Indian Flds.

You might be interested that there are other communities that are also called Indian Fields. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Indian Fields.

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 Indian Fields ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Indian Fields.

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 Indian Fields - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

Upper Clyde Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Upper Clyde Cemetery
Bonnycastle Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bonnycastle Cemetery
Christ Church Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Christ Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2413588 <2>
Pine Grove Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pine Grove Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2358436 <2>
Gavelton Meeting House Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gavelton Meeting House Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2589457 <2>
Ste. Anne Parish Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ste. Anne Parish Cemetery
- The Ste. Anne Parish Cemetery has also been known as:
- Ste. Anne du Ruisseau Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2559601 <2>
Dall Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dall Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Dall Cemetery is located outside and to the southeast of Lower Sandy Point.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2647200 <2>
Allendale Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Allendale Cemetery
Clyde River Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Clyde River Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2451598 <2>
Buchanan Memorial Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Buchanan Memorial Cemetery
Lydgate Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lydgate Cemetery
Osborne Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Osborne Cemetery
Continue List (5 more) ...
- Rockland Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rockland Cemetery
- Havelock Cemetery
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Havelock Cemetery
  - The Havelock Cemetery has also been known as:
  - Lakeside Cemetery
  - Nowlans Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2221026 <2>

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

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 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 Indian Fields:

Websites specific to Nova Scotia
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search

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

Footnotes ...

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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 Indian Fields and then turned west". While Indian Fields could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Indian Fields 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 Indian Fields 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 Nova Scotia community named Indian Fields.

<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.