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 Estrellita (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 Estrellita. 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.
Estrellita is located in Trinity 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 Trinity County: Humboldt, Mendocino, Shasta, Siskiyou & Tehama.
Below are the counties that are near Estrellita. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Estrellita:
- Trinity County (The home county of Estrellita)
- The following are listed by their distance from Estrellita, with the one closest to Estrellita listed first.
- Minersville ‑ Historic
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Minersville is located in Trinity County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minersville
- Trinity Center
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Deadwood ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Deadwood is located in Trinity County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deadwood
- Lewiston
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Weaverville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Carrville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Carrville is located in Trinity County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrville
- Douglas City
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Junction City
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Helena ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Helena is located in Trinity County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helena
- Big Bar
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Hayfork
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Shasta County
- The following are listed by their distance from Estrellita, with the one closest to Estrellita listed first.
- Jillsonville ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Jillsonville is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jillsonville
- Morrowville ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Morrowville is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrowville
- French Gulch
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Fielding ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Fielding is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fielding
- Oak Bottom ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Oak Bottom is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Bottom
- Delta
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Delta is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delta
- Former name for Delta:
- Bayles
- Vollmers
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Vollmers is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vollmers
- Iron Mountain ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Iron Mountain is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Mountain
- Whiskeytown ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Whiskeytown is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whiskeytown
- Former names for Whiskeytown:
- Blair
- Franklin City
- Schilling
- Stella
- Whiskey Creek
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Whiskeytown <1>
- Elmore ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Elmore is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmore
- Boralma ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Boralma is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boralma
- Coram ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Coram is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coram
- Siskiyou County
- Cecilville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Cecilville is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cecilville
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Estrellita, see our County-by-County Page for Estrellita.
Cemeteries Near Estrellita ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Estrellita.
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 Estrellita - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Estrellita covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Estrellita, with the one closest to Estrellita listed first.
- Ridgeville Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Weaverville Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- French Gulch Catholic Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- French Gulch Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Carrville Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Trinity County Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trinity County Cemetery
- The Trinity County Cemetery has also been known as:
- Helena - Bagdad Cemetery
- Delta Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delta Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Delta Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Delta.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2291419 <2>
- Whiskeytown Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Shasta Catholic Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Shasta Union Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Churntown Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Buckeye Pioneer Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (19 more) ...
- Central Valley Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- St. Joseph Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Philpott Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 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 Estrellita in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Estrellita.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Estrellita, with the one closest to Estrellita listed first.
- Minersville ‑ Historic
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Minersville is located in Trinity County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minersville
- Trinity Center
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Lewiston
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Deadwood ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Deadwood is located in Trinity County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deadwood
- Weaverville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Dedrick ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Dedrick is located in Trinity County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dedrick
- French Gulch
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Carrville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Carrville is located in Trinity County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrville
- Junction City
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Douglas City
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Delta
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Delta is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delta
- Former name for Delta:
- Bayles
- Elmore ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Elmore is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmore
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Lamoine
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Lamoine is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamoine
- Former names for Lamoine:
- Slate Creek
- Slatonis
- Copley ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Copley is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copley
- Former name for Copley:
- Motion
- Kennett ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Kennett is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennett
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Estrellita. See our List of 1890's Communities around Estrellita.
Newspapers Published in Estrellita ...
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 32 newspapers that have been published in the area around Estrellita.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Estrellita, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Estrellita.
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 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 Estrellita:
- Websites specific to California
- Pages specific to Trinity County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Shasta County
- Siskiyou 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 '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- Estrellita) 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 Estrellita, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |