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 Sandyland (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 Sandyland. 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 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.
Sandyland is located in Santa Barbara 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 Santa Barbara County: Kern, San Luis Obispo & Ventura.
Below are the counties that are near Sandyland. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Sandyland:
- Santa Barbara County (The home county of Sandyland)
- The following are listed by their distance from Sandyland, with the one closest to Sandyland listed first.
- Old Town
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Old Town is located in Santa Barbara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town
- Franciscan Village
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Franciscan Village is located in Santa Barbara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franciscan Village
- Carpinteria
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Toro Canyon
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Toro Canyon is located in Santa Barbara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toro Canyon
- Ortega ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Ortega is located in Santa Barbara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ortega
- Summerland
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Montecito
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Santa Barbara
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Mission Canyon
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Mission Canyon is located in Santa Barbara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission Canyon
- Hope Ranch
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Hope Ranch is located in Santa Barbara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hope Ranch
- Goleta
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- La Patera
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- La Patera is located in Santa Barbara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Patera
- Ventura County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sandyland, with the one closest to Sandyland listed first.
- Sea Cliff
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Sea Cliff is located in Ventura County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sea Cliff
- Oak View
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Meiners Oaks
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Meiners Oaks is located in Ventura County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meiners Oaks
- Mira Monte
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Ojai
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Pierpont Bay
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Pierpont Bay is located in Ventura County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierpont Bay
- Ventura
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Ventura is located in Ventura County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ventura
- Population from the 2020 Census: 107,110 people
- Ventura has also been known as:
- San Buenaventura
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ventura <1>
- Montalvo
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Montalvo is located in Ventura County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montalvo
- Cabrillo Village
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Cabrillo Village is located in Ventura County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cabrillo Village
- Saticoy
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Saticoy is located in Ventura County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saticoy
- El Rio
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- El Rio is located in Ventura County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Rio
- Channel Islands Beach
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Sandyland, see our County-by-County Page for Sandyland.
Cemeteries Near Sandyland ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sandyland.
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 Sandyland - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Sandyland covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Sandyland, with the one closest to Sandyland listed first.
- Carpinteria Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Santa Barbara Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Calvary Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Goleta Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- La Patera Catholic Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Ojai Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Nordhoff Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Memorial Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Ivy Lawn Memorial Park
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Santa Clara Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Santa Paula Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Hueneme Masonic Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hueneme Masonic Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Hueneme Masonic Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Port Hueneme.
- The Hueneme Masonic Cemetery has also been known as:
- Masonic Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8145 <2>
- Japanese Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
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 Sandyland in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Sandyland.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Sandyland, with the one closest to Sandyland listed first.
- Serena
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Serena is located in Santa Barbara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Serena
- Carpinteria
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Ortega ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Ortega is located in Santa Barbara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ortega
- Summerland
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Sea Cliff
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Sea Cliff is located in Ventura County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sea Cliff
- Santa Barbara
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Matilija
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Matilija is located in Ventura County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matilija
- Goleta
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- La Patera
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- La Patera is located in Santa Barbara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Patera
- Ventura
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Ventura is located in Ventura County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ventura
- Population from the 2020 Census: 107,110 people
- Ventura has also been known as:
- San Buenaventura
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ventura <1>
- Ellwood
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Ellwood is located in Santa Barbara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellwood
- Montalvo
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Montalvo is located in Ventura County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montalvo
- Continue List (4 more) ...
- Naples ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Naples is located in Santa Barbara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Naples
- Saticoy
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Saticoy is located in Ventura County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saticoy
- Santa Paula
(27 miles [43.5 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 Sandyland. See our List of 1890's Communities around Sandyland.
Newspapers Published in Sandyland ...
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 81 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sandyland.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sandyland, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sandyland.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Sandyland:
- Websites specific to California
- Pages specific to Santa Barbara 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 Sandyland, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | 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- Sandyland) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |