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 Norias (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 Norias. 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 and 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.
Norias is located in Kenedy County.
To see how the shape of Texas' counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Kenedy County: Brooks, Hidalgo, Kleberg & Willacy.
Below are the counties that are near Norias. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Norias:
- Kenedy County (The home county of Norias)
- The following are listed by their distance from Norias, with the one closest to Norias listed first.
- Armstrong
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Armstrong is located in Kenedy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armstrong
- Sarita
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Brooks County
- Encino
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Hidalgo County
- The following are listed by their distance from Norias, with the one closest to Norias listed first.
- Linn
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- San Manuel
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- San Manuel is located in Hidalgo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Manuel
- Hargill
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Willacy County
- The following are listed by their distance from Norias, with the one closest to Norias listed first.
- Los Angeles Subdivision
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Ranchette Estates
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Ranchette Estates is located in Willacy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ranchette Estates
- Ranchette Estates has also been known as:
- Ranchette Estates Colonia
- Raymondville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- San Perlita
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Lasara
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Willamar
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Willamar is located in Willacy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willamar
- Lyford South
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Lyford South is located in Willacy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyford South
- Lyford South has also been known as:
- Lyford South Colonia
- Lyford
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Port Mansfield
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Sebastian
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Zapata Ranch
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Zapata Ranch is located in Willacy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zapata Ranch
- Zapata Ranch has also been known as:
- Zapata Ranch Colonia
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Norias, see our County-by-County Page for Norias.
Cemeteries Near Norias ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Norias.
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 Norias - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Norias covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Norias, with the one closest to Norias listed first.
- Norias Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- La Piedad Cementerio #2 Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- La Piedad Cementerio #1 Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Raymondville Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raymondville Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Raymondville Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Raymondville.
- El Toro Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- El Lucero Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Lasara Memorial Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Garcia Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Garcia Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garcia Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Garcia Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Lasara.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #3744 <3>
- San Luis Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Luis Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the San Luis Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<2> to the southeast of Lasara.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #6714 <3>
- San Martin Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Benavides Family Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Garcia Family Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- El Rucio Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Chavez Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chavez Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Chavez Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<2> to the southeast of Lasara.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2882 <3>
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.<4>
While we didn't find Norias in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Norias.
- Los Angeles
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Los Angeles is located in Hidalgo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Los Angeles
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Norias. See our List of 1890's Communities around Norias.
Newspapers Published in Norias ...
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 9 newspapers that have been published in the area around Norias.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Norias, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Norias.
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 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 Norias:
- Websites specific to Texas
- Pages specific to Kenedy County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Brooks County
- Hidalgo County
- Willacy County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Texas
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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Norias) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | 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 Norias, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |