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 Scripps Ranch (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 Scripps Ranch. 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.
Name Variations for Scripps Ranch ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.
- A typical abbreviation for Scripps Ranch: Scripps Rnch.
- While the name of this community is Scripps Ranch, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Scripps Ranch may originally have been Scripp's Ranch.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Scripps Ranch might be written as Scripp Ranch.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Scripps Ranch 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 Scripps Ranch. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Scripps Ranch:
- San Diego County (The home county of Scripps Ranch)
- The following are listed by their distance from Scripps Ranch, with the one closest to Scripps Ranch listed first.
- Mira Mesa
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Linda Vista ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Linda Vista is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linda Vista
- Poway
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- University City
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- University City is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for University City
- Eucalyptus Hills
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Eucalyptus Hills is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eucalyptus Hills
- Rancho Bernardo
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Fairbanks Ranch
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Fairbanks Ranch is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairbanks Ranch
- Santee
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Elvira
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Clairemont
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Clairemont is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clairemont
- Bayside Village
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Bayside Village is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayside Village
- Del Mar
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Scripps Ranch, see our County-by-County Page for Scripps Ranch.
Cemeteries Near Scripps Ranch ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Scripps Ranch.
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 Scripps Ranch - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Scripps Ranch covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Scripps Ranch, with the one closest to Scripps Ranch listed first.
- El Camino Memorial Park
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Miramar National Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Dearborn Memorial Park
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dearborn Memorial Park
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Dearborn Memorial Park is a large cemetery that is located in Poway.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7932 <3>
- Carmel Valley Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Holy Cross Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Olivenhain Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Home of Peace Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Mt. Hope Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- 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 <3>
- Greenwood Memorial Park
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Greenwood Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- El Cajon Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- La Vista Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Oak Hill Memorial Park
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
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.<5>
While we didn't find Scripps Ranch in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Scripps Ranch.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Scripps Ranch, with the one closest to Scripps Ranch listed first.
- Linda Vista ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Linda Vista is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linda Vista
- Selwyn ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Selwyn is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selwyn
- Poway
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Sorrento
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Sorrento is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sorrento
- Santee
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Pacific Beach
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Pacific Beach is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pacific Beach
- La Mesa
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- El Cajon
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Riverview
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Riverview is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview
- Lakeside
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Del Mar
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Old Town San Diego
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Old Town San Diego is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town San Diego
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Spring Valley
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- San Diego
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- La Presa
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- La Presa is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Presa
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Scripps Ranch. See our List of 1890's Communities around Scripps Ranch.
Newspapers Published in Scripps Ranch ...
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 356 newspapers that have been published in the area around Scripps Ranch.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Scripps Ranch, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Scripps Ranch.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Scripps Ranch:
- Websites specific to California
- Pages specific to San Diego County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for California
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | 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- Scripps Ranch) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <5> | 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 Scripps Ranch, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |