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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 Llanada (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 Llanada. 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 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 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.

Llanada is located in San Benito 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 Benito County: Fresno, Merced, Monterey, Santa Clara & Santa Cruz.

Below are the counties that are near Llanada. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Llanada:

  • San Benito County     (The home county of Llanada)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Llanada, with the one closest to Llanada listed first.
    • Panoche
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • Panoche is located in San Benito County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panoche
    • San Benito
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • San Benito is located in San Benito County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Benito
    • Pinnacles
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Pinnacles is located in San Benito County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinnacles
    • Bitterwater
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Bitterwater is located in San Benito County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bitterwater
    • New Idria ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • New Idria is located in San Benito County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Idria
      • New Idria has also been known as:
      • Idria
    • Paicines
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Tres Pinos
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Ridgemark
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Ridgemark is located in San Benito County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgemark
  • Fresno County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Llanada, with the one closest to Llanada listed first.
    • Mercey Hot Springs
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Mercey Hot Springs is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mercey Hot Springs
      • Former name for Mercey Hot Springs:
      • Mercy Hot Springs
    • Oro Loma ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Oro Loma is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oro Loma
    • Panoche Junction
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Panoche Junction is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panoche Junction
    • Giffen Cantua Ranch
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Giffen Cantua Ranch is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Giffen Cantua Ranch
    • Benito
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Benito is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benito
    • Firebaugh
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Merced County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Llanada, with the one closest to Llanada listed first.
    • South Dos Palos
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Dos Palos
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Monterey County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Llanada, with the one closest to Llanada listed first.
    • Soledad
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Greenfield
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • King City
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Gonzales
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Llanada ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Llanada.

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 Llanada - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Cherry Hill Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Bitterwater Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bitterwater Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Bitterwater Cemetery is located outside and to the north of Bitterwater.
    • The Bitterwater Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Pine Hill Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7858 <3>
  • Willow Creek Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Paicines Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Soledad Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Greenfield Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Williams - Duckworth Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Anderson Akers Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Gonzales Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Clayton Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Llanada had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • San Benito
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • San Benito is located in San Benito County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Benito
  • Bitterwater
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Bitterwater is located in San Benito County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bitterwater
  • New Idria ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • New Idria is located in San Benito County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Idria
    • New Idria has also been known as:
    • Idria
  • Paicines
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Lonoak
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Lonoak is located in Monterey County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lonoak
  • Metz
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Metz is located in Monterey County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Metz
  • Soledad
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Tres Pinos
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Gonzales
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • King City
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Llanada ...

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 22 newspapers that have been published in the area around Llanada.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Llanada, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Llanada.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Llanada:

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Llanada) 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 Llanada, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.