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 Ray Place (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 Ray Place. 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.

Name Variations for Ray Place ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Ray Place: Ray Pl. (or less commonly used: Ray Plc.)

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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.

Ray Place is located in Mohave 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 Mohave County: Coconino, La Paz, Yavapai, San Bernardino (CA), Clark (NV), Lincoln (NV), Kane (UT) & Washington (UT).

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

• Mohave County     (The home county of Ray Place)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Ray Place, with the one closest to Ray Place listed first.
  • Gold Basin ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Gold Basin. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Basin
    • Gold Basin is located in Mohave County
  • Meadview
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadview
    • Meadview is located in Mohave County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Meadview <2>
  • South Cove
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Cove
    • South Cove is located in Mohave County
  • White Hills
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Hills
    • White Hills is located in Mohave County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for White Hills <2>
  • Dolan Springs
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dolan Springs
    • Dolan Springs is located in Mohave County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dolan Springs <2>
  • Temple Bar Marina
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Temple Bar Marina
    • Temple Bar Marina is located in Mohave County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Temple Bar Marina <2>
  • Antares
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antares
    • Antares is located in Mohave County
  • Chloride
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chloride
    • Chloride is located in Mohave County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Chloride <2>

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

Newspapers Published in Ray Place ...

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 10 newspapers that have been published in the area around Ray Place.

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

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 Ray Place:

• 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 Mohave 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 Mohave County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Arizona
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Arizona
  • Cemeteries of Mohave County

Cemeteries Near Ray Place ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Ray Place.

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

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

• Gold Basin Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • The Gold Basin Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Basin Cemetery
  • Burnt Mill Ranch Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gold Basin Cemetery
• White Hills Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the White Hills Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the White Hills Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2252714 <4>

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<5>

While we didn't find Ray Place in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Ray Place.

• Gold Basin ‑ Historic
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Gold Basin. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Basin
  • Gold Basin is located in Mohave County

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

The official website for Mohave County: www.co.mohave.az.us/

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