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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 Bristow Point (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 Bristow Point. 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 Bristow Point ...

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 occur.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Bristow Point: Bristow Pt.

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.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Bristow Point is located in Pittsburg County.

To see how the shape of Oklahoma's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pittsburg County: Atoka, Coal, Haskell, Hughes, Latimer, McIntosh & Pushmataha.

Below are the counties that are near Bristow Point. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Bristow Point:

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Bristow Point, see our County-by-County Page for Bristow Point.

Cemeteries Near Bristow Point ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bristow Point.

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 Bristow Point - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Massey Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Masonic Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Red Oak Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • McDougal Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Featherston Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Old Mellette Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Indianola Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Lawson Williams Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Shady Grove Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Scott Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Wesley Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Bower Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (126 more) ...
    • New Mellette Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Courts Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Washington Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Bristow Point ...

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 88 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bristow Point.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bristow Point, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bristow Point.

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 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 Bristow Point:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 'straight-line' (or 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- Bristow Point) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.