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 Boulder Bay (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 Boulder Bay. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Boulder Bay is located in San Bernardino 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 San Bernardino County: La Paz (AZ), Mohave (AZ), Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside & Clark (NV).
Below are the counties that are near Boulder Bay. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Boulder Bay:
- San Bernardino County (The home county of Boulder Bay)
- The following are listed by their distance from Boulder Bay, with the one closest to Boulder Bay listed first.
- Fawnskin
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Big Bear Lake
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Minnelusa
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Minnelusa is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnelusa
- Moonridge
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Big Bear
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Sugarloaf
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Angelus Oaks
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Green Valley Lake
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Arrowbear Lake
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Arrowbear Lake is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arrowbear Lake
- Running Springs
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Forest Falls
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Mountain Home Village
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Mountain Home Village is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Home Village
- Cedar Glen
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Riverside County
- The following are listed by their distance from Boulder Bay, with the one closest to Boulder Bay listed first.
- Calimesa
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Cherry Valley
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Ordway
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Ordway is located in Riverside County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ordway
- Banning
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Beaumont
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Cabazon
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Bonnie Bell
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Bonnie Bell is located in Riverside County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonnie Bell
- Highgrove
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Highgrove is located in Riverside County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highgrove
- Moreno Valley
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- White Water
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- White Water is located in Riverside County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Water
- Gilman Hot Springs
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Gilman Hot Springs is located in Riverside County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilman Hot Springs
- Bannockburn Village
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Bannockburn Village is located in Riverside County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bannockburn Village
- Lakeview
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Lakeview is located in Riverside County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Boulder Bay, see our County-by-County Page for Boulder Bay.
Cemeteries Near Boulder Bay ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Boulder Bay.
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 Boulder Bay - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Boulder Bay covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Boulder Bay, with the one closest to Boulder Bay listed first.
- Wilbur Grave
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Lucerne Valley Memorial Park
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Indian Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Hillside Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside Cemetery
- The Hillside Cemetery has also been known as:
- Hillside Cemetery Park
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8029 <2>
- Campo Santo Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Mountain View Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Mountain View Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Mt. View Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- San Gorgonio Memorial Park
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Sunnyslope Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- St. Marys Catholic Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Continue List (16 more) ...
- Home of Eternity Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Pioneer Memorial Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Moravian Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 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.<4>
While we didn't find Boulder Bay in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Boulder Bay.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Boulder Bay, with the one closest to Boulder Bay listed first.
- Mentone
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Eastbern ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Eastbern is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastbern
- Arrowhead Springs
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Arrowhead Springs is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arrowhead Springs
- Lugonia ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Lugonia is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lugonia
- Redlands
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Victoria
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Victoria is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victoria
- Banning
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- San Bernardino
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Mound City ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Mound City is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mound City
- Colton
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Colton is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 54,661 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Colton <1>
- Hesperia
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Rialto
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Rialto is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rialto
- Population from the 2020 Census: 104,132 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rialto <1>
- Grapeland ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Grapeland is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grapeland
- Cajon
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Cajon is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cajon
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Boulder Bay. See our List of 1890's Communities around Boulder Bay.
Newspapers Published in Boulder Bay ...
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 153 newspapers that have been published in the area around Boulder Bay.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Boulder Bay, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Boulder Bay.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Boulder Bay:
- Websites specific to California
- Pages specific to San Bernardino County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- 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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Boulder Bay) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Boulder Bay, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |