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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 Naschitti (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 Naschitti. 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 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.

Naschitti is located in San Juan County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of San Juan County: Apache (AZ), Archuleta (CO), La Plata (CO), Montezuma (CO), McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval & San Juan (UT).

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

  • San Juan County     (The home county of Naschitti)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Naschitti, with the one closest to Naschitti listed first.
    • Sheep Springs
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Newcomb
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Crystal
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Crystal is located in San Juan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal
    • Toadlena
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Toadlena is located in San Juan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toadlena
    • White Rock ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • White Rock is located in San Juan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Rock
    • Sanostee
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Lake Valley
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Lake Valley is located in San Juan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Valley
  • McKinley County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Naschitti, with the one closest to Naschitti listed first.
    • Tohatchi
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Brimhall Nizhoni
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Brimhall Nizhoni is located in McKinley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brimhall Nizhoni
    • Mexican Springs
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Mexican Springs is located in McKinley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mexican Springs
      • Mexican Springs has also been known as:
      • Nakai Beto
      • Nakai Bito
      • Nakaibeto
      • Nakaibito
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mexican Springs <1>
    • Navajo
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Twin Lakes
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Twin Lakes is located in McKinley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Lakes
    • Yah-ta-hey
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Yah-ta-hey is located in McKinley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yah-ta-hey
  • Apache County (AZ)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Naschitti, with the one closest to Naschitti listed first.
    • Wheatfields
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Wheatfields is located in Apache County (AZ)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheatfields
    • Sawmill
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Sawmill is located in Apache County (AZ)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sawmill
    • Sehili
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Sehili is located in Apache County (AZ)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sehili

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

Cemeteries Near Naschitti ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Naschitti.

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 Naschitti - one of the links might be able to help.

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Naschitti:

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 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.