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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 Dos Tristes (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 Dos Tristes. 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 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.

Dos Tristes is located in McKinley County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of McKinley County: Apache (AZ), Cibola, San Juan & Sandoval.

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

  • Bernalillo County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dos Tristes, with the one closest to Dos Tristes listed first.
    • Rio Rancho
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Paradise Hills
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Hills
      • Paradise Hills is located in Bernalillo County
  • Cibola County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dos Tristes, with the one closest to Dos Tristes listed first.
    • Seboyeta
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Paguate
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Paguate have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paguate
      • Paguate is located in Cibola County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Paguate <1>
    • Encinal
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Encinal
      • Encinal is located in Cibola County
    • Mesita
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Laguna
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Casa Blanca
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Cubero
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Paraje
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paraje
      • Paraje is located in Cibola County
    • Harrisburg
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrisburg
      • Harrisburg is located in Cibola County
    • North Acomita Village
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Acomita Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Acomita Village
      • North Acomita Village is located in Cibola County
    • Seama
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Seama have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seama
      • Seama is located in Cibola County
    • San Fidel
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • Sandoval County
    • Guadalupe
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guadalupe
      • Guadalupe is located in Sandoval County

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

Cemeteries Near Dos Tristes ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dos Tristes.

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 Dos Tristes covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Paguate Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Paguate Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Paguate Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38309 <3>
  • Tohajiilee Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Eckerman Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Eckerman Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Eckerman Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38035 <3>
  • San Jose Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Cubero Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Paraje Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Casa Blanca Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Guadalupe Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Guadalupe Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Guadalupe Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38097 <3>
  • Budville Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • New York Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • San Fidel Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the San Fidel Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the San Fidel Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38402 <3>

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

Newspapers Published in Dos Tristes ...

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 2 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dos Tristes.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Dos Tristes, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Dos Tristes.

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 Dos Tristes:

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

The official website for McKinley County: www.co.mckinley.nm.us/

The official website for State of New Mexico: https://www.nm.gov/

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>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<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>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Dos Tristes) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Dos Tristes. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.2553, Longitude: -107.2370       In this case, the coordinates for Dos Tristes have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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