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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 Old Adobe (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 Old Adobe. 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 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.

Old Adobe is located in San Luis Obispo 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 Luis Obispo County: Kern, Kings, Monterey, Santa Barbara & Ventura.

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

  • San Luis Obispo County     (The home county of Old Adobe)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Old Adobe, with the one closest to Old Adobe listed first.
    • San Miguel
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Wellsona
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Wellsona is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellsona
    • Estrella
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Estrella is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Estrella
    • Oak Park
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Oak Park is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Park
    • El Paso de Robles
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • El Paso de Robles is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Paso de Robles
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 31,521 people
    • Paso Robles
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Lake Nacimiento
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Templeton
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Linne
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Linne is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linne
    • Bee Rock
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Bee Rock is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bee Rock
    • Atascadero
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Creston
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Fresno County
    • Parkfield Junction
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Parkfield Junction is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkfield Junction
  • Monterey County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Old Adobe, with the one closest to Old Adobe listed first.
    • Bradley
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Parkfield
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Pleyto ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Pleyto is located in Monterey County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleyto
    • San Ardo
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Lockwood
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Martinus Corner
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Martinus Corner is located in Monterey County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martinus Corner
  • San Mateo County

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

Cemeteries Near Old Adobe ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Old Adobe.

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 Old Adobe - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Paso Robles District Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Adelaida Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Templeton Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Atascadero Pine Mtn. Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atascadero Pine Mtn. Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Atascadero Pine Mtn. Cemetery is located in Atascadero.
    • The Atascadero Pine Mtn. Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Atascadero Cemetery
    • Pine Mtn. Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2154678 <2>
  • Imusdale Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Clark Memorial Park
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Parkfield Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Shandon Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Cayucos - Morro Bay District Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • Cambria Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Santa Rosa Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Santa Margarita Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Warthan Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Lockwood Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Quintana 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.<3>

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

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

  • San Miguel
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Estrella
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Estrella is located in San Luis Obispo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Estrella
  • Paso Robles
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Valleton
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Valleton is located in Monterey County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valleton
  • Bradley
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Adelaida
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Adelaida is located in San Luis Obispo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adelaida
  • Templeton
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Linne
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Linne is located in San Luis Obispo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linne
  • Asuncion
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Asuncion is located in San Luis Obispo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Asuncion
  • Creston
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Parkfield
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Pleyto ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Pleyto is located in Monterey County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleyto
  • Continue List   (11 more) ...
    • Shandon
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Dove ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Dove is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dove
    • Cholame
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)

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

Newspapers Published in Old Adobe ...

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 33 newspapers that have been published in the area around Old Adobe.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Old Adobe, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Old Adobe.

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 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 Old Adobe:

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>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 Old Adobe, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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- Old Adobe) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.