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 Kayenta (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 Kayenta. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Kayenta is located in Navajo County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Navajo County: Apache, Coconino, Gila, Graham & San Juan (UT).

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

• Navajo County     (The home county of Kayenta)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Kayenta, with the one closest to Kayenta listed first.
  • Tsegi
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tsegi
    • Tsegi is located in Navajo County
  • Baby Rocks
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baby Rocks
    • Baby Rocks is located in Navajo County
  • Chilchinbito
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chilchinbito
    • Chilchinbito is located in Navajo County
  • Oljato - Monument Valley
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oljato - Monument Valley
    • Oljato - Monument Valley is located in Navajo County
  • Shonto
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shonto
    • Shonto is located in Navajo County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Shonto <1>
• Apache County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Kayenta, with the one closest to Kayenta listed first.
  • Dennehotso
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dennehotso
    • Dennehotso is located in Apache County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dennehotso <1>
  • Rough Rock
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rough Rock have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rough Rock
    • Rough Rock is located in Apache County
• San Juan County (UT)
  • Oljato
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oljato
    • Oljato is located in San Juan County (UT)
    • Oljato has also been known as:
    • Moonlight
    • Oljato Trading Post
    • Olje
    • Oljeto Trading Post
    • Oljeto
    • Oljetoh Trading Post

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

Newspapers Published in Kayenta ...

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 1 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kayenta.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kayenta, 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 Kayenta.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Kayenta:

• Websites specific to Arizona
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the //www.azlibrary.gov/arm

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

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

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

Cemeteries Near Kayenta ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kayenta.

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).

• Kayenta Community Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kayenta Community Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2134517 <4>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

The official website for Navajo County: www.co.navajo.az.us/

The official website for State of Arizona: https://az.gov/