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 Rooneys Place (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 Rooneys Place. 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.

Name Variations for Rooneys Place ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

• A typical abbreviation for Rooneys Place: Rooneys Pl. (or less commonly used: Rooneys Plc.)

• While the name of this community is Rooneys Place, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Rooneys Place may originally have been Rooney's Place.
  
  Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Rooneys Place might be written as Rooney Place.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

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 south 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.

Rooneys Place is located in Brewster County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Brewster County: Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio & Terrell.

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

• Brewster County     (The home county of Rooneys Place)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Rooneys Place, with the one closest to Rooneys Place listed first.
  • Hot Springs ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hot Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hot Springs
    • Hot Springs is located in Brewster County
  • Rio Grande Village
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio Grande Village
    • Rio Grande Village is located in Brewster County
  • Boquillas Crossing
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boquillas Crossing
    • Boquillas Crossing is located in Brewster County
  • Castolon ‑ Historic
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Castolon have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castolon
    • Castolon is located in Brewster County

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

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 Rooneys Place:

• Websites specific to Texas
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the //www.tsl.texas.gov/

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

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

Cemeteries Near Rooneys Place ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rooneys Place.

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

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

• Glenn Springs Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Glenn Springs Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Glenn Springs Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2315711 <4>
• Rice Cemetery
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rice Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #6357 <4>
• Nina Marie Seawell Hannold Gravesite
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Nina Marie Seawell Hannold Gravesite
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2314954 <4>
• Coyote Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Coyote Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #3091 <4>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

The official website for State of Texas: https://texas.gov/