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 Encanto (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 Encanto. 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 southeast 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 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.
Encanto is located in San Diego 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 Diego County: Imperial, Orange & Riverside.
Below are the counties that are near Encanto. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Encanto:
- San Diego County (The home county of Encanto)
- The following are listed by their distance from Encanto, with the one closest to Encanto listed first.
- Lemon Grove
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Paradise Hills
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Paradise Hills is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Hills
- La Presa
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- La Presa is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Presa
- Spring Valley
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Bonita
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Sunnyside
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Sunnyside is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnyside
- Lincoln Acres
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- National City
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- South Crest
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- South Crest is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Crest
- La Mesa
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- East San Diego
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- East San Diego is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East San Diego
- Grossmont
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Grossmont is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grossmont
- Chula Vista
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Encanto, see our County-by-County Page for Encanto.
Cemeteries Near Encanto ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Encanto.
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 Encanto - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Encanto covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Encanto, with the one closest to Encanto listed first.
- Holy Cross Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- La Vista Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Mt. Hope Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mt. Hope Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Mt. Hope Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in San Diego.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8175 <2>
- Greenwood Memorial Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Home of Peace Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Greenwood Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Glen Abbey Memorial Park
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- El Cajon Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Mt. Olivet Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- St. Francis Xavier Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Miramar National Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (7 more) ...
- El Camino Memorial Park
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Carmel Valley Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
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 Encanto in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Encanto.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Encanto, with the one closest to Encanto listed first.
- National City
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Bonita
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Sunnyside
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Sunnyside is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnyside
- La Presa
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- La Presa is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Presa
- Spring Valley
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- La Mesa
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Chula Vista
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- San Diego
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Coronado
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Coronado Heights ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Coronado Heights is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coronado Heights
- Otay
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Otay is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otay
- El Cajon
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Old Town San Diego
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Old Town San Diego is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town San Diego
- South San Diego
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- South San Diego is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South San Diego
- Nestor
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Nestor is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nestor
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Encanto. See our List of 1890's Communities around Encanto.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Encanto ...
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 345 newspapers that have been published in the area around Encanto.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Encanto. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Encanto and those printed in the larger area surrounding Encanto.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<3> of Encanto.
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 Encanto:
- Websites specific to California
- Pages specific to San Diego 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> | 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- Encanto) 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 Encanto, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |