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 Home Place Well (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 Home Place Well. 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 Home Place Well ...
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 Home Place Well: Home Pl. Well (or less commonly used: Home Plc. Well)
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 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.
Home Place Well is located in Roosevelt 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 Roosevelt County: Chaves, Curry, Lea, Quay, Bailey (TX) & Cochran (TX).
Below are the counties that are near Home Place Well. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Home Place Well:
- Roosevelt County (The home county of Home Place Well)
- The following are listed by their distance from Home Place Well, with the one closest to Home Place Well listed first.
- Kenna
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenna
- Kenna is located in Roosevelt County
- Elida
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Milnesand
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Dora
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Lea County
- Crossroads
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Home Place Well, see our County-by-County Page for Home Place Well.
Cemeteries Near Home Place Well ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Home Place Well.
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 Home Place Well covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Home Place Well, with the one closest to Home Place Well listed first.
- Spillman Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Spillman Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Spillman Cemetery is located 5 miles [8 km]<2> to the west of Kenna.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38463 <3>
- Old Kenna Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Kenna Cemetery
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Old Kenna Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Old Kenna Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<2> to the northwest of Kenna.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38294 <3>
- Kenna Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kenna Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Kenna Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<2> to the north of Kenna.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38150 <3>
- Kenna Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kenna Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kenna Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Elida Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Elida Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Elida Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the north of Elida.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38045 <3>
- Eagle Hill Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Eagle Hill Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Eagle Hill Cemetery is located 21 miles [33.8 km]<2> to the northwest of Kenna.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38034 <3>
- Boaz Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Boaz Cemetery
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Boaz Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Boaz Cemetery is located 38 miles [61.2 km]<2> to the southwest of Roswell.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #37960 <3>
- New Hope Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the New Hope Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the New Hope Cemetery is located 23 miles [37 km]<2> to the west of Kenna.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38272 <3>
- Liston Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Liston Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Liston Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Richland Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Richland Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Richland Cemetery is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<2> to the north of Dora.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38362 <3>
- Ingram Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ingram Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Ingram Cemetery is located 13 miles [20.9 km]<2> to the southeast of Elida.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38133 <3>
- Jenkins Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (5 more) ...
- Mt. Zion Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Zion Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Mt. Zion Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<2> to the south of Dora.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38257 <3>
- Upton Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Upton Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Upton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38496 <3>
- Upton Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Upton Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Upton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Home Place Well. See our List of 1890's Communities around Home Place Well.
Newspapers Published in Home Place Well ...
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 6 newspapers that have been published in the area around Home Place Well.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Home Place Well, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Home Place Well.
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 professional and volunteer 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 Home Place Well:
- Websites specific to New Mexico
- Pages specific to Roosevelt County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for New Mexico
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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Home Place Well) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Home Place Well. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.7543, Longitude: -103.7100 In this case, the coordinates for Home Place Well have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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> | 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. |