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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 La Jolla Amago (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 La Jolla Amago. 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 and hospitals 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.

La Jolla Amago 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 La Jolla Amago. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to La Jolla Amago:

  • San Diego County     (The home county of La Jolla Amago)
    • The following are listed by their distance from La Jolla Amago, with the one closest to La Jolla Amago listed first.
    • Palomar Mountain
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Pauma Valley
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Holcomb Village
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Holcomb Village is located in San Diego County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holcomb Village
    • Oak Grove
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Oak Grove is located in San Diego County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove
    • Mesa Grande ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Mesa Grande is located in San Diego County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Grande
    • Valley Center
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Warner Springs
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Pala
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Hidden Meadows
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Hidden Meadows is located in San Diego County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hidden Meadows
    • Ramona
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Santa Ysabel
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Lawrence Welk Resort Village
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Escondido
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Riverside County
    • The following are listed by their distance from La Jolla Amago, with the one closest to La Jolla Amago listed first.
    • Aguanga
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Rainbow Canyon Village
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Sage
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Sage is located in Riverside County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sage
    • Anza
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Lake Village
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Lake Village is located in Riverside County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Village
    • Temecula
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Auld ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Auld is located in Riverside County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auld
    • Ramona Village
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Ramona Village is located in Riverside County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramona Village
    • Dutch Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Dutch Village is located in Riverside County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dutch Village
    • Murrieta Hot Springs
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Murrieta Hot Springs is located in Riverside County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murrieta Hot Springs
    • Murrieta
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Mountain Center
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to La Jolla Amago, see our County-by-County Page for La Jolla Amago.

Cemeteries Near La Jolla Amago ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of La Jolla Amago.

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 La Jolla Amago - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for La Jolla Amago covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from La Jolla Amago, with the one closest to La Jolla Amago listed first.

  • Indian Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • St. Bartholomew Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Pauma Valley Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Valley Center Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Bergman Family Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Radec Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Indian Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Pala Tribal Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Oak Hill Memorial Park
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Memory Gardens Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • San Marcos Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Cahuilla Indian Reservation Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (9 more) ...
    • Julian Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Temecula Public Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Temecula Public Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Temecula Public Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Temecula.
      • The Temecula Public Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Temecula Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1759791 <2>
    • Dearborn Memorial Park
      (23 miles [37 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.<4>

While we didn't find La Jolla Amago in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of La Jolla Amago.

These communities are listed based on their distance from La Jolla Amago, with the one closest to La Jolla Amago listed first.

  • Mesa Grande ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Mesa Grande is located in San Diego County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Grande
  • Oak Grove
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Oak Grove is located in San Diego County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove
  • Valley Center
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Pala
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • San Pasqual
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • San Pasqual is located in San Diego County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Pasqual
  • Ballena
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Ballena is located in San Diego County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ballena
  • Santa Ysabel
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Escondido
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Wynola
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Wynola is located in San Diego County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wynola
  • Twin Oaks
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Twin Oaks is located in San Diego County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Oaks
  • Rainbow
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Rainbow is located in San Diego County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainbow
  • San Marcos
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Julian
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Ranchita
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Ranchita is located in San Diego County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ranchita
    • Bonsall
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around La Jolla Amago. See our List of 1890's Communities around La Jolla Amago.

Newspapers Published in La Jolla Amago ...

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 108 newspapers that have been published in the area around La Jolla Amago.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of La Jolla Amago, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for La Jolla Amago.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 La Jolla Amago:

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 from Point A (ie- La Jolla Amago) 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 La Jolla Amago, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.