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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 Double Mills (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 Double Mills. 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 Double Mills ...

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 Double Mills: Double Mls. (or less commonly used: Double Mlls.)

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 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.

Double Mills is located in Guadalupe 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 Guadalupe County: DeBaca, Lincoln, Quay, San Miguel & Torrance.

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

  • Guadalupe County     (The home county of Double Mills)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Double Mills, with the one closest to Double Mills listed first.
    • Cuervo
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Santa Rosa
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Newkirk
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Colonias
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colonias
      • Colonias is located in Guadalupe County
    • Pastura
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pastura
      • Pastura is located in Guadalupe County
  • San Miguel County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Double Mills, with the one closest to Double Mills listed first.
    • Trementina ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Trementina have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trementina
      • Trementina is located in San Miguel County
    • Hooverville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hooverville
      • Hooverville is located in San Miguel County
    • Conchas
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Double Mills ...

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 15 newspapers that have been published in the area around Double Mills.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Double Mills, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Double Mills.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful 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 Double Mills:

Cemeteries Near Double Mills ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Double Mills.

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 Double Mills covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

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 Double Mills in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Double Mills.

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

  • Santa Rosa
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Puerto De Luna
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Puerto De Luna have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Puerto De Luna
    • Puerto De Luna is located in Guadalupe County

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

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

The official website for State of New Mexico: www.newmexico.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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Double Mills) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Double Mills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.0656, Longitude: -104.5230       In this case, the coordinates for Double Mills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>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.
<5>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 Double Mills, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024