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 Maljamar (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 Maljamar. 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.

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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

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 north 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.

Maljamar is located in Lea County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lea County: Chaves, Eddy, Roosevelt, Andrews (TX), Cochran (TX), Gaines (TX), Loving (TX), Winkler (TX) & Yoakum (TX).

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

• Lea County     (The home county of Maljamar)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Maljamar, with the one closest to Maljamar listed first.
  • Lovington
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lovington have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovington
    • Lovington is located in Lea County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 11,474 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lovington <2>
  • Arkansas Junction
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkansas Junction
    • Arkansas Junction is located in Lea County
  • Hillburn City
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hillburn City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillburn City
    • Hillburn City is located in Lea County
• Eddy County
  • Loco Hills
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loco Hills
    • Loco Hills is located in Eddy County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Loco Hills <2>

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

Newspapers Published in Maljamar ...

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 7 newspapers that have been published in the area around Maljamar.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Maljamar, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Maljamar.

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 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 Maljamar:

• Websites specific to New Mexico
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the State Records Center and Archives

• Pages specific to Lea County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Eddy County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

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

Cemeteries Near Maljamar ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Maljamar.

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

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

• Crockett Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Crockett Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Crockett Cemetery
• Morgan Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Morgan Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Morgan Cemetery
• Lovington Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lovington Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lovington Cemetery
• Rest Haven Gardens
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rest Haven Gardens have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rest Haven Gardens

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

The official website for Lea County: www.leacounty.net/

The official website for State of New Mexico: www.newmexico.gov/