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 Big Bend Rancheria (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 Big Bend Rancheria. 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.
Big Bend Rancheria is located in Shasta County.
To see how the shape of California's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Shasta County: Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Siskiyou, Tehama & Trinity.
Below are the counties that are near Big Bend Rancheria. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Big Bend Rancheria:
- Shasta County (The home county of Big Bend Rancheria)
- The following are listed by their distance from Big Bend Rancheria, with the one closest to Big Bend Rancheria listed first.
- Big Bend
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Big Bend is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Bend
- Former names for Big Bend:
- Elena
- Henderson
- Indian Springs
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Big Bend <1>
- Wengler
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Wengler is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wengler
- Pineland ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Pineland is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pineland
- Hatchet Mountain ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Hatchet Mountain is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatchet Mountain
- Hillcrest
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Hillcrest is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillcrest
- Montgomery Creek
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Cayton
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Cayton is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cayton
- Round Mountain
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Burney
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Johnson Park
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Johnson Park is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnson Park
- Dana
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Dana is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dana
- Cassel
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Furnaceville ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Furnaceville is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Furnaceville
- Lassen County
- Pittville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Pittville is located in Lassen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittville
- Siskiyou County
- The following are listed by their distance from Big Bend Rancheria, with the one closest to Big Bend Rancheria listed first.
- Algoma ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Algoma is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Algoma
- McCloud
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Dunsmuir
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Slagger ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Slagger is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slagger
- Shasta Springs
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Shasta Springs is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shasta Springs
- Hambone ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Hambone is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hambone
- Cantara ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Cantara is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cantara
- Mount Shasta
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Big Bend Rancheria, see our County-by-County Page for Big Bend Rancheria.
Cemeteries Near Big Bend Rancheria ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Big Bend Rancheria.
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 Big Bend Rancheria - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Big Bend Rancheria covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Big Bend Rancheria, with the one closest to Big Bend Rancheria listed first.
- Cove Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Halcumb Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Burney Falls Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Pioneer Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Burney Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burney Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Burney Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Burney.
- Be careful not to confuse this cemetery with another one that is also named Burney Cemetery (located 68 miles to the north).
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7866 <2>
- Burney Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burney Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Burney Cemetery is located in Burney.
- The Burney Cemetery has also been known as:
- Burney District Cemetery
- Be careful not to confuse this cemetery with another one that is also named Burney Cemetery (located 69 miles to the north).
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2362619 <2>
- Dana Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- McCloud Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Dunsmuir Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Eastman Ranch Indian Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Oak Run Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Fall River Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Fern Pioneer Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Delta Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delta Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Delta Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Delta.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2291419 <2>
- Whitmore Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
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 Big Bend Rancheria in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Big Bend Rancheria.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Big Bend Rancheria, with the one closest to Big Bend Rancheria listed first.
- Montgomery Creek
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Cayton
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Cayton is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cayton
- Round Mountain
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Dana
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Dana is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dana
- McCloud
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Cassel
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Alfa ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Alfa is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alfa
- Dunsmuir
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Ydaloom ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Ydaloom is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ydaloom
- Sims
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Sims is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sims
- Oak Run
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Mott
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Mott is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mott
- Continue List (9 more) ...
- Baird ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Baird is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baird
- Fall River Mills
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Cantara ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Cantara is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cantara
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Big Bend Rancheria. See our List of 1890's Communities around Big Bend Rancheria.
Newspapers Published in Big Bend Rancheria ...
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 24 newspapers that have been published in the area around Big Bend Rancheria.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Big Bend Rancheria, 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 Big Bend Rancheria.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Big Bend Rancheria:
- Websites specific to California
- Pages specific to Shasta County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Lassen County
- Siskiyou County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for California
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 Big Bend Rancheria, 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 from Point A (ie- Big Bend Rancheria) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |