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 Hospah (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 Hospah. 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 southwest 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 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 west 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.

Hospah 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 Hospah. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Hospah:

• McKinley County     (The home county of Hospah)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Hospah, with the one closest to Hospah listed first.
  • Whitehorse
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitehorse
    • Whitehorse is located in McKinley County
  • Pueblo Pintado
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pueblo Pintado have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pueblo Pintado
    • Pueblo Pintado is located in McKinley County
  • Crownpoint
    (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crownpoint
    • Crownpoint is located in McKinley County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Crownpoint <2>
  • Smith Lake
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smith Lake
    • Smith Lake is located in McKinley County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Smith Lake <2>
  • Prewitt
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prewitt
    • Prewitt is located in McKinley County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Prewitt <2>
• Sandoval County
  • Torreon
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Torreon have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torreon
    • Torreon is located in Sandoval County

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

Newspapers Published in Hospah ...

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 1 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hospah.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hospah, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hospah.

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 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 Hospah:

• Websites specific to New Mexico
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the State Records Center and Archives

• Pages specific to McKinley County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Sandoval County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for New Mexico
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Cemeteries of McKinley County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Cemeteries of McKinley County

Cemeteries Near Hospah ...

We're sorry, but we don't know of any cemeteries in the area around Hospah.

This is a new section of our Gazetteer and we're still collecting data about cemeteries and their location. If you know of a cemetery that should be included, please let us know.

We are looking for information such as the name of the cemetery, its GPS location, whether the cemetery is still in use or if it is historic (ie- defunct, abandoned,  etc.). If it applies, we would also like to learn of any past or alternate names that the cemetery has been known by.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our collection of Genealogy Websites.

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Hospah. 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: www.newmexico.gov/