Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Jamestown. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Jamestown to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Jamestown, please Contact Us.

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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 Jamestown (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 Jamestown. 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 and hospitals 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Jamestown is historic, it would have been located within present day Nye County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Nye County: Inyo (CA), Churchill, Clark, Esmeralda, Eureka, Lander, Lincoln, Mineral & White Pine.

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

• Nye County     (The home county of Jamestown)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Jamestown, with the one closest to Jamestown listed first.
  • Carrs Camp ‑ Historic
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrs Camp
    • Carrs Camp is located in Nye County
  • Scottys Junction
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scottys Junction
    • Scottys Junction is located in Nye County
  • Silverbow ‑ Historic
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silverbow have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silverbow
    • Silverbow is located in Nye County
    • Silverbow has also been known as:
    • Silver Bow
  • Bonnie Claire ‑ Historic
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bonnie Claire have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonnie Claire
    • Bonnie Claire is located in Nye County
• Esmeralda County
  • Goldfield
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldfield
    • Goldfield is located in Esmeralda County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Goldfield <3>

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

Newspapers Published in Jamestown ...

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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Jamestown.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Jamestown, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Jamestown.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start 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 Jamestown:

• Websites specific to Nevada
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the Nevada State Library and Archives

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

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

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

Cemeteries Near Jamestown ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Jamestown.

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

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

• Springdale Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Springdale Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Springdale Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2564306 <6>
• Silverbow Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Silverbow Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Silverbow Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2215052 <6>
• Goldfield Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Goldfield Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2136465 <6>
• Goldfield Pioneer Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Goldfield Pioneer Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2247684 <6>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Nye County: www.co.nye.nv.us/

The official website for State of Nevada: nv.gov/