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 Nawt Vaya (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 Nawt Vaya. 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 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.

Nawt Vaya 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 Nawt Vaya. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Nawt Vaya:

• Pima County     (The home county of Nawt Vaya)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Nawt Vaya, with the one closest to Nawt Vaya listed first.
  • Three Points
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Three Points have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Points
    • Three Points is located in Pima County
  • Schuchk
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schuchk
    • Schuchk is located in Pima County
  • Haivana Nakya
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haivana Nakya
    • Haivana Nakya is located in Pima County
  • Chiawuli Tak
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chiawuli Tak
    • Chiawuli Tak is located in Pima County
  • Comobabi
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comobabi
    • Comobabi is located in Pima County
  • Ali Chukson
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ali Chukson
    • Ali Chukson is located in Pima County
  • Ali Molina
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ali Molina
    • Ali Molina is located in Pima County
  • Chutum Vaya ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chutum Vaya have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chutum Vaya
    • Chutum Vaya is located in Pima County
  • Topawa
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Topawa
    • Topawa is located in Pima County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Topawa <2>
  • Ko Vaya
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ko Vaya
    • Ko Vaya is located in Pima County
  • Sells
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sells
    • Sells is located in Pima County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sells <2>
  • Picture Rocks
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Picture Rocks have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Picture Rocks
    • Picture Rocks is located in Pima County
  • Tucson Estates
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tucson Estates have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tucson Estates
    • Tucson Estates is located in Pima County

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

Newspapers Published in Nawt Vaya ...

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 4 newspapers that have been published in the area around Nawt Vaya.

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

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 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 Nawt Vaya:

• 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

• 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 Nawt Vaya ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Nawt Vaya.

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

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

• Haivana Nakya Cemetery
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Haivana Nakya Cemetery
• Sil Nakya Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sil Nakya Cemetery
• Komlic Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Komlic Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2437544 <4>
• Monte Calvario Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Monte Calvario Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Monte Calvario Cemetery
• Twin Buttes Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Twin Buttes Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Twin Buttes Cemetery
• Nolic Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Nolic Cemetery
• Cerro Colorado Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cerro Colorado Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2543544 <4>
• San Xavier Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the San Xavier Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the San Xavier Cemetery
• Silver Bell Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Silver Bell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Silver Bell Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Nawt Vaya. 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/