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 Vaughn (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 Vaughn. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

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

• Guadalupe County     (The home county of Vaughn)
  • Pastura
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pastura
    • Pastura is located in Guadalupe County
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Pastura
    • From Vaughn to Pastura
• Torrance County
  • Encino
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Encino
    • Encino is located in Torrance County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 79 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Encino <1>
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Encino
    • From Vaughn to Encino

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

Cemeteries Near Vaughn ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Vaughn.

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

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

• Evergreen Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Evergreen Cemetery
  • The Evergreen Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Vaughn Evergreen Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2129451 <2>
  • Google driving directions:
  • From your current location to the Evergreen Cemetery
  • From Vaughn to the Evergreen Cemetery
• Duran Cemetery
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Duran Cemetery
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Duran Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
• Duran Cemetery
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Duran Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38031 <2>
  • Google driving directions:
  • From your current location to the Duran Cemetery
  • From Vaughn to the Duran Cemetery
• Hindi Cemetery
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hindi Cemetery
  • The Hindi Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Hindi Family Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38115 <2>
  • Google driving directions:
  • From your current location to the Hindi Cemetery
  • From Vaughn to the Hindi Cemetery
• Guadalupe Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Guadalupe Cemetery
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Guadalupe Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Encino.
  • The Guadalupe Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Encino Catholic Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38096 <2>
  • Google driving directions:
  • From your current location to the Guadalupe Cemetery
  • From Vaughn to the Guadalupe Cemetery
• Encino Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Encino Cemetery
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Encino Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Encino.
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38047 <2>
  • Google driving directions:
  • From your current location to the Encino Cemetery
  • From Vaughn to the Encino Cemetery
• St. Helen Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Helen Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2302375 <2>
  • Google driving directions:
  • From your current location to the St. Helen Cemetery
  • From Vaughn to the St. Helen Cemetery
• Sombrio Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sombrio Cemetery
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sombrio Cemetery is located 19 miles [30.6 km]<4> to the south of Vaughn.
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38459 <2>
  • Google driving directions:
  • From your current location to the Sombrio Cemetery
  • From Vaughn to the Sombrio Cemetery
• Negra Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Negra Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38270 <2>
  • Google driving directions:
  • From your current location to the Negra Cemetery
  • From Vaughn to the Negra Cemetery
• Old Pintada Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Pintada Cemetery
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old Pintada Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38297 <2>
• Pinos Wells Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pinos Wells Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38326 <2>
  • Google driving directions:
  • From your current location to the Pinos Wells Cemetery
  • From Vaughn to the Pinos Wells Cemetery
• Pinos Wells Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pinos Wells Cemetery
  • The Pinos Wells Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Pinos Wells Cemetery (South)
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2229544 <2>
  • Google driving directions:
  • From your current location to the Pinos Wells Cemetery
  • From Vaughn to the Pinos Wells Cemetery
• San Ignacio Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the San Ignacio Cemetery
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the San Ignacio Cemetery is located 9 miles [14.5 km]<4> to the south of Pastura.
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38405 <2>
  • Google driving directions:
  • From your current location to the San Ignacio Cemetery
  • From Vaughn to the San Ignacio Cemetery
• Red Hills Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Red Hills Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38352 <2>
  • Google driving directions:
  • From your current location to the Red Hills Cemetery
  • From Vaughn to the Red Hills Cemetery

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Vaughn ...

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 7 newspapers that have been published in the area around Vaughn.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

• A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Vaughn. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Vaughn and those printed in the larger area surrounding Vaughn.
• An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<4> of Vaughn.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Vaughn:

• 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 Guadalupe County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Torrance 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 Guadalupe County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Cemeteries of Guadalupe County

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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