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 Parran (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 Parran. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.
Parran is located in Churchill County.
To see how the shape of Nevada's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Churchill County: Lander, Lyon, Mineral, Nye, Pershing & Washoe.
Below are the counties that are near Parran. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Parran:
- Churchill County (The home county of Parran)
- The following are listed by their distance from Parran, with the one closest to Parran listed first.
- Huxley ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Huxley is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huxley
- Cressid ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Cressid is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cressid
- Jessup ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jessup is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jessup
- Ragtown ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Ragtown is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ragtown
- Hazen
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Hazen is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazen
- Fallon
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Stillwater
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Stillwater is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stillwater
- Nevada City ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Nevada City is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nevada City
- Diatom
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Diatom is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diatom
- Island City ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Island City is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island City
- Lahontan City ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Lahontan City is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lahontan City
- Lyon County
- The following are listed by their distance from Parran, with the one closest to Parran listed first.
- Darwin ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Darwin is located in Lyon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darwin
- Fernley
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Pershing County
- The following are listed by their distance from Parran, with the one closest to Parran listed first.
- Toulon ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Toulon is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toulon
- Granite Point ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Granite Point is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite Point
- Nightingale ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Nightingale is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nightingale
- Lovelock
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Washoe County
- Wadsworth
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Parran, see our County-by-County Page for Parran.
Cemeteries Near Parran ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Parran.
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 Parran - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Parran covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Parran, with the one closest to Parran listed first.
- Stillwater Indian Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Rosewood Drive Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Churchill County Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Churchill County Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Churchill County Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Fallon.
- The Churchill County Cemetery has also been known as:
- Fallon Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83919 <2>
- Gardens Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardens Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Gardens Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Fallon.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2200424 <2>
- Allen Road Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allen Road Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Allen Road Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Fallon.
- The Allen Road Cemetery has also been known as:
- Eason Cemetery
- Ferguson Cemetery
- St. Clair Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2340981 <2>
- St. Clair Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Fernley Desert Memorial Garden
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Veterans Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Big Meadow Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Meadow Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Big Meadow Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Lovelock.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83909 <2>
- Fraternal Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Wadsworth Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<3>
While we didn't find Parran in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Parran.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Parran, with the one closest to Parran listed first.
- Cressid ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Cressid is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cressid
- Saint Clair
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Saint Clair is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Clair
- Hill ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Hill is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill
- Wadsworth
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Parran. See our List of 1890's Communities around Parran.
Newspapers Published in Parran ...
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 31 newspapers that have been published in the area around Parran.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Parran, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Parran.
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 helpful 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 Parran:
- Websites specific to Nevada
- Pages specific to Churchill County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Lyon County
- Pershing County
- Washoe County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Nevada
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. |
| <3> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Parran, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Parran) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |