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 Goodale (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 Goodale. 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.
Goodale is located in Tulare 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 Tulare County: Fresno, Inyo, Kern & Kings.
Below are the counties that are near Goodale. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Goodale:
- Tulare County (The home county of Goodale)
- The following are listed by their distance from Goodale, with the one closest to Goodale listed first.
- Lemon Cove
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Woodlake Junction
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Woodlake Junction is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodlake Junction
- Woodlake
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Exeter
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Kaweah
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Three Rivers
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- East Farmersville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- East Farmersville is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Farmersville
- Ivanhoe
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Farmersville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Taurusa
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Taurusa is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taurusa
- Advance ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Advance is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Advance
- Lindsay
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Fresno County
- The following are listed by their distance from Goodale, with the one closest to Goodale listed first.
- Miramonte
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Pinehurst
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Orange Cove
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Dunlap
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Reedley
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Yokuts
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Hume
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Kingsburg
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Goodale, see our County-by-County Page for Goodale.
Cemeteries Near Goodale ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Goodale.
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 Goodale - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Goodale covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Goodale, with the one closest to Goodale listed first.
- Hamilton Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Woodlake Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodlake Cemetery
- The Woodlake Cemetery has also been known as:
- Antelope Cemetery
- Woodlake Public Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #601409 <2>
- Lone Oak Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Deep Creek Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep Creek Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Deep Creek Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the north of Farmersville.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7933 <2>
- Lindsay - Strathmore Public Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Visalia Public Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Visalia Public Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Visalia Public Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Visalia.
- The Visalia Public Cemetery has also been known as:
- Visalia Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #198468 <2>
- Tulare Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Smith Mtn. Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Woodville Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Porterville Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Crabtree Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crabtree Cemetery
- The Crabtree Cemetery has also been known as:
- Crabtree - Globe Cemetery
- Globe Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1960724 <2>
- St. Anne's Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Continue List (9 more) ...
- Vandalia Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- S D A Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Squaw Valley Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 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.<3>
While we didn't find Goodale in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Goodale.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Goodale, with the one closest to Goodale listed first.
- Yokohl
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Yokohl is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yokohl
- Exeter
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Three Rivers
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Kaweah
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Farmersville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Taurusa
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Taurusa is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taurusa
- Lindsay
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Advance ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Advance is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Advance
- Auckland
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Auckland is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auckland
- Visalia
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Milo
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Milo is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo
- Orosi
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Monson
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Monson is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monson
- Tagus
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Tagus is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tagus
- Tulare
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Tulare is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tulare
- Population from the 2020 Census: 66,797 people
- Tulare has also been known as:
- Tulare City
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tulare <1>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Goodale. See our List of 1890's Communities around Goodale.
Newspapers Published in Goodale ...
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 66 newspapers that have been published in the area around Goodale.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Goodale, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Goodale.
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 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 Goodale:
- Websites specific to California
- Pages specific to Tulare 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> | 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 Goodale, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Goodale) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |