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 Penoyar (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 Penoyar. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.
Penoyar is located in Siskiyou 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 Siskiyou County: Del Norte, Humboldt, Modoc, Shasta, Trinity, Jackson (OR), Josephine (OR) & Klamath (OR).
Below are the counties that are near Penoyar. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Penoyar:
- Siskiyou County (The home county of Penoyar)
- The following are listed by their distance from Penoyar, with the one closest to Penoyar listed first.
- Mount Hebron
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Mount Hebron is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Hebron
- Cougar ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Cougar is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cougar
- Tennant
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Tennant is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tennant
- Macdoel
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Somerset
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Somerset is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Somerset
- Little Shasta
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Little Shasta is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Shasta
- Big Springs
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Big Springs is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Springs
- Beswick
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Beswick is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beswick
- Dorris
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Carrick
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Carrick is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrick
- Bogus ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Bogus is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bogus
- Edgewood
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Edgewood is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewood
- Klamath County (OR)
- Worden
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Worden is located in Klamath County (OR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Worden
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Penoyar, see our County-by-County Page for Penoyar.
Cemeteries Near Penoyar ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Penoyar.
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 Penoyar - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Penoyar covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Penoyar, with the one closest to Penoyar listed first.
- Lakeview Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Little Shasta Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Arbaugh - Dunlap Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Picard Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Winema Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Way Cemetery
- The Way Cemetery is located on private property - be sure to secure permission before visiting and respect the owner's property rights.
- We're sorry, but we do not have contact information for the owner.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Way Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Way Cemetery is located 14 miles [22.5 km]<2> to the southwest of Keno (OR).
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #39545 <3>
- Julien Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Foulke Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Montague Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Gazelle Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Mt. Shasta Memorial Park
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Worden Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Continue List (4 more) ...
- Gillems Graveyard
(28 miles [45.1 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 Penoyar in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Penoyar.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Penoyar, with the one closest to Penoyar listed first.
- Mount Hebron
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Mount Hebron is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Hebron
- Little Shasta
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Little Shasta is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Shasta
- Beswick
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Beswick is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beswick
- Edgewood
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Edgewood is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewood
- Bogus ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Bogus is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bogus
- Grenada
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Igerna
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Igerna is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Igerna
- Ager
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Ager is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ager
- Montague
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Gazelle
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- McCloud
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Yreka
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Yreka is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yreka
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,503 people
- Yreka has also been known as:
- Yreka City
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Yreka <1>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Penoyar. See our List of 1890's Communities around Penoyar.
Newspapers Published in Penoyar ...
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 43 newspapers that have been published in the area around Penoyar.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Penoyar, 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 Penoyar.
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 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 Penoyar:
- Websites specific to California
- Pages specific to Siskiyou County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for California
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- Penoyar) 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 Penoyar, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |