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 Julian (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 Julian. 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 hospitals and 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.
Julian is located in Kenedy County.
To see how the shape of Texas' counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Kenedy County: Brooks, Hidalgo, Kleberg & Willacy.
Below are the counties that are near Julian. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Julian:
- Kenedy County (The home county of Julian)
- Armstrong
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Armstrong is located in Kenedy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armstrong
- Brooks County
- The following are listed by their distance from Julian, with the one closest to Julian listed first.
- Encino
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Flowella
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Flowella is located in Brooks County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flowella
- Airport Road Addition
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Cantu Addition
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Cantu Addition is located in Brooks County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cantu Addition
- Hidalgo County
- The following are listed by their distance from Julian, with the one closest to Julian listed first.
- San Manuel
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- San Manuel is located in Hidalgo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Manuel
- Linn
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Hargill
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Laguna Seca
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Laguna Seca is located in Hidalgo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laguna Seca
- Faysville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Faysville is located in Hidalgo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Faysville
- Monte Alto
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Starr County
- The following are listed by their distance from Julian, with the one closest to Julian listed first.
- Delmita
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Arkansas City
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Arkansas City is located in Starr County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkansas City
- Willacy County
- The following are listed by their distance from Julian, with the one closest to Julian listed first.
- Lasara
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Ranchette Estates
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Ranchette Estates is located in Willacy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ranchette Estates
- Ranchette Estates has also been known as:
- Ranchette Estates Colonia
- Los Angeles Subdivision
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Raymondville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Lyford
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- San Perlita
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Lyford South
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Lyford South is located in Willacy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyford South
- Lyford South has also been known as:
- Lyford South Colonia
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Julian, see our County-by-County Page for Julian.
Cemeteries Near Julian ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Julian.
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 Julian - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Julian covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Julian, with the one closest to Julian listed first.
- Norias Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- El Lucero Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Benavides Family Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Garcia Family Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Longoria Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- El Rucio Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Vallerreno Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- La Mesa Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Santa Anita Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Perez Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Lasara Memorial Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Garcia Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Continue List (32 more) ...
- Garcia Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garcia Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Garcia Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Lasara.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #3744 <3>
- San Luis Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Luis Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the San Luis Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<2> to the southeast of Lasara.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #6714 <3>
- San Martin Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
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 Julian in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Julian.
- Los Angeles
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Los Angeles is located in Hidalgo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Los Angeles
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Julian. See our List of 1890's Communities around Julian.
Newspapers Published in Julian ...
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 9 newspapers that have been published in the area around Julian.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Julian, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Julian.
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 Julian:
- Websites specific to Texas
- Pages specific to Kenedy County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Brooks County
- Hidalgo County
- Starr County
- Willacy County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Texas
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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Julian) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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> | 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 Julian, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |