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 Mexican Town (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 Mexican Town. 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 doctors and hospitals 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.

Mexican Town is located in Pima 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 Pima County: Cochise, Graham, Maricopa, Pinal, Santa Cruz & Yuma.

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

• Pima County     (The home county of Mexican Town)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Mexican Town, with the one closest to Mexican Town listed first.
  • Ajo
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ajo
    • Ajo is located in Pima County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ajo <1>
  • Childs
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Childs
    • Childs is located in Pima County
  • Why
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Why
    • Why is located in Pima County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Why <1>
  • Schuchuli
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Schuchuli have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schuchuli
    • Schuchuli is located in Pima County
    • Schuchuli has also been known as:
    • Gunsight Ranch
    • Gunsight Well
    • Gunsight
    • Sialatuck
  • Charco
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charco
    • Charco is located in Pima County

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

Newspapers Published in Mexican Town ...

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 3 newspapers that have been published in the area around Mexican Town.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Mexican Town, there are papers which were published within Less than 2 miles<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Mexican Town.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Mexican Town:

• 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 Pima County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties

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

Cemeteries Near Mexican Town ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mexican Town.

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

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

• Ajo Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ajo Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2217485 <4>
• Childs Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Childs Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the southeast of Childs.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Childs Cemetery
• Gunsight Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gunsight Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gunsight Cemetery
• Stoa Pitk Cemetery
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stoa Pitk Cemetery
• Hickiwan Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hickiwan Cemetery
• Gu Vo Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gu Vo Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

The official website for Pima County: www.co.pima.az.us/

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