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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 Jenner (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 Jenner. 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 doctors 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.

Jenner is located in Sonoma County.

To see how the shape of California's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sonoma County: Contra Costa, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Napa & Solano.

Below are the counties that are near Jenner. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Jenner:

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Jenner, see our County-by-County Page for Jenner.

Cemeteries Near Jenner ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Jenner.

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).

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Jenner covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Jenner, with the one closest to Jenner listed first.

  • Duncans Mills Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Duncans Mills Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Duncans Mills Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Redwood Memorial Gardens
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Redwood Memorial Gardens
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Redwood Memorial Gardens have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Seaview Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Seaview Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Seaview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Druids Occidental Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Druids Occidental Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Druids Occidental Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Benitz Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Benitz Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Benitz Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Bodega Bay Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bodega Bay Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bodega Bay Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Bodega Calvary Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bodega Calvary Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bodega Calvary Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Bodega Calvary Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Bodega.
  • McPeak Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McPeak Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the McPeak Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Ruoff - Thomas Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ruoff - Thomas Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ruoff - Thomas Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Gilliam Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gilliam Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gilliam Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Green Valley Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Green Valley Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Green Valley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Forestview Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Forestview Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Forestview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Continue List   (41 more) ...
    • Spring Hill Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Spring Hill Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Spring Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Cooper Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cooper Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cooper Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Pleasant Hills Memorial Park
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pleasant Hills Memorial Park
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pleasant Hills Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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 Jenner in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Jenner.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Jenner, with the one closest to Jenner listed first.

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Jenner. See our List of 1890's Communities around Jenner.

Newspapers Published in Jenner ...

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 55 newspapers that have been published in the area around Jenner.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Jenner, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Jenner.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Jenner:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Jenner. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Sonoma County: www.sonoma-county.org/

The official website for State of California: https://www.ca.gov/

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>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.
<3>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.
<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 Jenner, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Jenner) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Jenner. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.4499, Longitude: -123.1155    









 

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