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 Diamond A Ranch Estates (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 Diamond A Ranch Estates. 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 Diamond A Ranch Estates ...
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.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Diamond A Ranch Estates: Diamond A Rnch. Ests.
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 northeast 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 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.
Diamond A Ranch Estates is located in Sonoma County.
Below are the counties that are near Diamond A Ranch Estates. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Diamond A Ranch Estates:
Sonoma County (The home county of Diamond A Ranch Estates)
The following are listed by their distance from Diamond A Ranch Estates, with the one closest to Diamond A Ranch Estates listed first.
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Sobrante. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Mare Island ‑ Historic (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Mare Island. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Diamond A Ranch Estates.
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).
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Diamond A Ranch Estates, with the one closest to Diamond A Ranch Estates listed first.
Eldridge Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Thompson Family Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Francis Solano Catholic Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Cypress Hill Memorial Park (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cypress Hill Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
B'nai Israel Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the B'nai Israel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Petaluma Calvary Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Partrick Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
To give a relative sense of its location, the Partrick Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<4> to the southeast of Napa.
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Brothers of the Christian Schools Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
The Brothers of the Christian Schools Cemetery has also been known as:
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Napa Redwood Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
To give a relative sense of its location, the Napa Redwood Cemetery is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<4> to the southeast of Napa.
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pythian Home Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Bennett Valley Cemetery (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bennett Valley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Dry Creek Cemetery (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
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.<6>
While we didn't find Diamond A Ranch Estates in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Diamond A Ranch Estates.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Diamond A Ranch Estates, with the one closest to Diamond A Ranch Estates listed first.
Madrone ‑ Historic (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Madrone have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Lakeville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
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 51 newspapers that have been published in the area around Diamond A Ranch Estates.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Diamond A Ranch Estates, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Diamond A Ranch Estates.
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 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 Diamond A Ranch Estates:
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The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
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An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
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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- Diamond A Ranch Estates) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Diamond A Ranch Estates. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.3041, Longitude: -122.5453 In this case, the coordinates for Diamond A Ranch Estates have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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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.
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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 Diamond A Ranch Estates, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.