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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 Curry Village (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 Curry Village. 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 Curry Village ...

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 occur.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Curry Village: Curry Vlg. (in Canada, 'Vlge.' is the more common abbreviation.)

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 northwest 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 north.

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 north 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.

Curry Village is located in Mariposa County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Mariposa County: Madera, Merced, Mono, Stanislaus & Tuolumne.

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

  • Mariposa County     (The home county of Curry Village)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Curry Village, with the one closest to Curry Village listed first.
    • Yosemite Valley
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Yosemite Valley is located in Mariposa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yosemite Valley
    • Yosemite Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Yosemite Village is located in Mariposa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yosemite Village
    • Yosemite West
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Yosemite West is located in Mariposa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yosemite West
    • El Portal
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Wawona
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Fish Camp
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Jerseydale
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Jerseydale is located in Mariposa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jerseydale
    • Darrah
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Darrah is located in Mariposa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darrah
    • Midpines
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Bootjack
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Bootjack is located in Mariposa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bootjack
    • Mariposa
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Mount Bullion
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Mount Bullion is located in Mariposa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Bullion
    • Dogtown
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Dogtown is located in Mariposa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dogtown
  • Madera County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Curry Village, with the one closest to Curry Village listed first.
    • Nipinnawasee ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Nipinnawasee is located in Madera County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nipinnawasee
    • Yosemite Forks
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Yosemite Forks is located in Madera County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yosemite Forks
    • Ahwahnee
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Bass Lake
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Oakhurst
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • The Pines
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • The Pines is located in Madera County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Pines
    • Wishon
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Wishon is located in Madera County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wishon
  • Mono County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Curry Village, with the one closest to Curry Village listed first.
    • Bennettville ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Bennettville is located in Mono County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennettville
      • Former names for Bennettville:
      • Bennett City
      • Tioga
    • Dana City ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Dana City is located in Mono County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dana City
    • Lundy
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Lundy is located in Mono County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lundy
      • Former name for Lundy:
      • Mill Creek
    • June Lake
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • June Lake Junction
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • June Lake Junction is located in Mono County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for June Lake Junction
    • Lee Vining
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Mono Lake ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Mono Lake is located in Mono County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mono Lake
    • Dunderberg Mill ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Dunderberg Mill is located in Mono County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunderberg Mill
  • Tuolumne County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Curry Village, with the one closest to Curry Village listed first.
    • Mather
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Mather is located in Tuolumne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mather
    • Golden Crown Mine ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Golden Crown Mine is located in Tuolumne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Crown Mine

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

Cemeteries Near Curry Village ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Curry Village.

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.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Curry Village - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Curry Village covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Bloody Canyon Gravesite
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Mariposa Masonic Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mariposa Masonic Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mariposa Masonic Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Mariposa.
    • The Mariposa Masonic Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Masonic Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2205021 <3>
  • St. Joseph Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Oakhill Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Lundy Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Adeline Carson Stilts Burial Site
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)

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.<4>

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

These communities are listed based on their distance from Curry Village, with the one closest to Curry Village listed first.

  • Wawona
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Sequoia
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Sequoia is located in Tuolumne County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sequoia
  • Jerseydale
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Jerseydale is located in Mariposa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jerseydale
  • Lundy
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Lundy is located in Mono County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lundy
    • Former name for Lundy:
    • Mill Creek
  • Mariposa
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Mono Lake ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Mono Lake is located in Mono County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mono Lake

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

Newspapers Published in Curry Village ...

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 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around Curry Village.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Curry Village, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Curry Village.

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 Curry Village:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Curry Village) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<4>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Curry Village, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.