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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 Moyina (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 Moyina. 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 hospitals 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.

Moyina is located in Klamath County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Klamath County: Modoc (CA), Siskiyou (CA), Deschutes, Douglas, Jackson, Lake & Lane.

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

  • Klamath County     (The home county of Moyina)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Moyina, with the one closest to Moyina listed first.
    • Dairy
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Bonanza
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Pine Grove
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Pine Grove is located in Klamath County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Grove
    • Altamont
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Altamont is located in Klamath County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altamont
    • Oretech
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Klamath Falls
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Pelican City
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Pelican City is located in Klamath County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pelican City
    • Terminal City
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Terminal City is located in Klamath County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terminal City
    • Merrill
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Sprague River
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Midland
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • White Lake City ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • White Lake City is located in Klamath County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Lake City
    • Malin
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Modoc County (CA)
    • Stronghold
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Stronghold is located in Modoc County (CA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stronghold
  • Siskiyou County (CA)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Moyina, with the one closest to Moyina listed first.
    • Tulelake
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Dorris
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Dorris is located in Siskiyou County (CA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorris
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 896 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dorris <1>

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

Cemeteries Near Moyina ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Moyina.

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

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Moyina covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Mt. Calvary Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Hibbert Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Eternal Hills Memorial Gardens
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Bedfield Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Bonanza Memorial Park Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonanza Memorial Park Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Bonanza Memorial Park Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Bonanza.
    • The Bonanza Memorial Park Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Bonanza Memorial Park
    • Lost River Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38593 <2>
  • Gabriel Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Linkville Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linkville Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Linkville Cemetery is located in Klamath Falls.
    • The Linkville Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Linkville Pioneer Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #39046 <2>
  • Klamath Memorial Park
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Mt. Laki Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • IOOF Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Merrill IOOF Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Merrill Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Jackson Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Rock Creek Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Malin Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)

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 Moyina in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Moyina.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Moyina, with the one closest to Moyina listed first.

  • Dairy
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Olene
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Olene is located in Klamath County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olene
  • Hildebrand
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Hildebrand is located in Klamath County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hildebrand
  • Bonanza
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Haynesville
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Haynesville is located in Klamath County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haynesville
  • Plevna ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Plevna is located in Klamath County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plevna
  • Keno
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Langell Valley
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Langell Valley is located in Klamath County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langell Valley
  • Bly
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Moyina ...

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 42 newspapers that have been published in the area around Moyina.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Moyina, 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 Moyina.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to 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 Moyina:

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 Moyina, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Moyina) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.