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 Tierrasanta (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 Tierrasanta. 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.
Tierrasanta 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 Tierrasanta. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Tierrasanta:
- San Diego County (The home county of Tierrasanta)
- The following are listed by their distance from Tierrasanta, with the one closest to Tierrasanta listed first.
- Linda Vista ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Linda Vista is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linda Vista
- East San Diego
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- East San Diego is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East San Diego
- Clairemont
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Clairemont is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clairemont
- Santee
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Mira Mesa
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- La Mesa
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Bayside Village
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Bayside Village is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayside Village
- Hillcrest
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Hillcrest is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillcrest
- University City
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- University City is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for University City
- Grossmont
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Grossmont is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grossmont
- Lemon Grove
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Old San Diego
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Old San Diego is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old San Diego
- Elvira
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Tierrasanta, see our County-by-County Page for Tierrasanta.
Cemeteries Near Tierrasanta ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tierrasanta.
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 Tierrasanta - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Tierrasanta covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Tierrasanta, with the one closest to Tierrasanta listed first.
- Miramar National Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- El Camino Memorial Park
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Holy Cross Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Home of Peace Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Mt. Hope Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 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 <2>
- Greenwood Memorial Park
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Greenwood Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Dearborn Memorial Park
(10 miles [16.1 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 <2>
- Carmel Valley Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- La Vista Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- El Cajon Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Continue List (11 more) ...
- Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Glen Abbey Memorial Park
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- St. Francis Xavier Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 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.<4>
While we didn't find Tierrasanta in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Tierrasanta.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Tierrasanta, with the one closest to Tierrasanta listed first.
- Linda Vista ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Linda Vista is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linda Vista
- Selwyn ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Selwyn is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selwyn
- La Mesa
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Santee
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Pacific Beach
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Pacific Beach is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pacific Beach
- Old Town San Diego
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Old Town San Diego is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town San Diego
- San Diego
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Spring Valley
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- El Cajon
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Sorrento
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Sorrento is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sorrento
- Coronado
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- National City
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- La Presa
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- La Presa is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Presa
- Lakeside
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Riverview
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Riverview is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Tierrasanta. See our List of 1890's Communities around Tierrasanta.
Newspapers Published in Tierrasanta ...
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 367 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tierrasanta.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Tierrasanta, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Tierrasanta.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Tierrasanta:
- 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Tierrasanta) 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 Tierrasanta, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |