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 Tusayan (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 Tusayan. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Tusayan is located in Coconino 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 Coconino County: Gila, Mohave, Navajo, Yavapai, Kane (UT) & San Juan (UT).

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

• Coconino County     (The home county of Tusayan)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Tusayan, with the one closest to Tusayan listed first.
  • Grand Canyon
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Canyon
    • Grand Canyon is located in Coconino County
    • Grand Canyon has also been known as:
    • Grand Canyon Village
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grand Canyon <1>
  • North Rim
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Rim
    • North Rim is located in Coconino County
  • Willaha
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willaha
    • Willaha is located in Coconino County
  • Valle
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valle
    • Valle is located in Coconino County

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Tusayan:

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

Cemeteries Near Tusayan ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tusayan.

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).

• Grand Canyon Pioneer Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Grand Canyon Pioneer Cemetery is located
  • The Grand Canyon Pioneer Cemetery has also been known as:
  • American Legion Cemetery
  • Grand Canyon Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grand Canyon Pioneer Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #669406 <2>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Tusayan: www.tusayan-az.gov/

The official website for Coconino County: www.co.coconino.az.us/

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