Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Adaven. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Adaven to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Adaven, please Contact Us.

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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 Adaven (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 Adaven. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Adaven is historic, it would have been located within present day Nye County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Nye County: Inyo (CA), Churchill, Clark, Esmeralda, Eureka, Lander, Lincoln, Mineral & White Pine.

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

• Nye County     (The home county of Adaven)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Adaven, with the one closest to Adaven listed first.
  • Troy ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troy
    • Troy is located in Nye County
  • Crows Nest ‑ Historic
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crows Nest have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crows Nest
    • Crows Nest is located in Nye County
  • Grant City ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grant City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant City
    • Grant City is located in Nye County
  • Lockes ‑ Historic
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lockes
    • Lockes is located in Nye County
• Lincoln County
  • Heizert City
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heizert City
    • Heizert City is located in Lincoln County

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

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 Adaven:

• Websites specific to Nevada
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the Nevada State Library and Archives

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

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

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

Cemeteries Near Adaven ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Adaven.

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).

• Pine Creek Ranch Family Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pine Creek Ranch Family Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2206817 <3>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Nye County: www.co.nye.nv.us/

The official website for State of Nevada: nv.gov/