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 La Nacion (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 La Nacion. 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 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.
La Nacion 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 La Nacion. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to La Nacion:
- San Diego County (The home county of La Nacion)
- The following are listed by their distance from La Nacion, with the one closest to La Nacion listed first.
- Paradise Hills
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Paradise Hills is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Hills
- Lincoln Acres
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Bonita
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- National City
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- South Crest
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- South Crest is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Crest
- Chula Vista
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Sunnyside
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Sunnyside is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnyside
- La Presa
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- La Presa is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Presa
- Cockatoo Grove
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Cockatoo Grove is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cockatoo Grove
- Lemon Grove
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Palm City
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Palm City is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palm City
- Coronado Heights ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Coronado Heights is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coronado Heights
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to La Nacion, see our County-by-County Page for La Nacion.
Cemeteries Near La Nacion ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of La Nacion.
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 La Nacion - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for La Nacion covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from La Nacion, with the one closest to La Nacion listed first.
- La Vista Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Glen Abbey Memorial Park
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Holy Cross Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Greenwood Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Greenwood Memorial Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Mt. Hope Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- 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>
- Home of Peace Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Mt. Olivet Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- St. Francis Xavier Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- El Cajon Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Miramar National Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- El Camino Memorial Park
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Carmel Valley Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 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 La Nacion in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of La Nacion.
These communities are listed based on their distance from La Nacion, with the one closest to La Nacion listed first.
- Bonita
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- National City
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Chula Vista
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Sunnyside
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Sunnyside is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnyside
- La Presa
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- La Presa is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Presa
- Coronado Heights ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Coronado Heights is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coronado Heights
- San Diego
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- South San Diego
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- South San Diego is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South San Diego
- Nestor
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Nestor is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nestor
- Otay
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Otay is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otay
- Spring Valley
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Coronado
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- La Mesa
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Old Town San Diego
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Old Town San Diego is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town San Diego
- Jamul
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around La Nacion. See our List of 1890's Communities around La Nacion.
Newspapers Published in La Nacion ...
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 366 newspapers that have been published in the area around La Nacion.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of La Nacion, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for La Nacion.
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 La Nacion:
- 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' (or 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- La Nacion) 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 La Nacion, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |