Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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

We've added Tinaja to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Tinaja, 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 Tinaja (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 Tinaja. 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 southwest 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 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 west 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Tinaja is historic, it would have been located within present day 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 Tinaja. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Tinaja:

• Brewster County     (The home county of Tinaja)
  • Maxon ‑ Historic
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxon
    • Maxon is located in Brewster County
    • Maxon has also been known as:
    • Maxon Springs

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

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 either 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 Tinaja:

• 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 Tinaja ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tinaja.

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).

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.

While we didn't find Tinaja in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Tinaja.

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

• Maxon ‑ Historic
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxon
  • Maxon is located in Brewster County
  • Maxon has also been known as:
  • Maxon Springs
• Haymond
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Haymond have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haymond
  • Haymond is located in Brewster County

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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