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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 San Geronimo (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 San Geronimo. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

San Geronimo 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 San Geronimo. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to San Geronimo:

  • San Luis Obispo County     (The home county of San Geronimo)
    • The following are listed by their distance from San Geronimo, with the one closest to San Geronimo listed first.
    • Harmony
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Cayucos
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Cambria
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • East Village
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • East Village is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Village
    • Tin City
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Tin City is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tin City
    • West Village
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • West Village is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Village
    • Morro Bay
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Morro Bay is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morro Bay
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,560 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Morro Bay <1>
    • Los Osos
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Templeton
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Atascadero
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • San Simeon
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Lake Nacimiento
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Paso Robles
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Monterey County
    • The following are listed by their distance from San Geronimo, with the one closest to San Geronimo listed first.
    • Pleyto ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Pleyto is located in Monterey County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleyto
    • Bradley
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
  • San Mateo County

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

Cemeteries Near San Geronimo ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of San Geronimo.

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 San Geronimo - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Cayucos - Morro Bay District Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Santa Rosa Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Cambria Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Quintana Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Adelaida Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Los Osos Valley Memorial Park
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Templeton Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Atascadero Pine Mtn. Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • 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>
  • Paso Robles District Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • San Luis Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Luis Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the San Luis Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of San Luis Obispo.
  • Old Mission Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Sutcliffe Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sutcliffe Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sutcliffe Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of San Luis Obispo.
  • Santa Margarita Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)

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 San Geronimo in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of San Geronimo.

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

  • Cayucos
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Cambria
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Adelaida
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Adelaida is located in San Luis Obispo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adelaida
  • Templeton
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Asuncion
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Asuncion is located in San Luis Obispo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Asuncion
  • San Simeon
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Paso Robles
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Dove ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Dove is located in San Luis Obispo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dove
  • Santa Margarita
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • San Luis Obispo
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Bryson
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Bryson is located in Monterey County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryson
  • Linne
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Linne is located in San Luis Obispo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linne
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...
    • San Miguel
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Miles
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Miles is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miles
    • Creston
      (25 miles [40.2 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 San Geronimo. See our List of 1890's Communities around San Geronimo.

Newspapers Published in San Geronimo ...

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 45 newspapers that have been published in the area around San Geronimo.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of San Geronimo, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for San Geronimo.

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 San Geronimo:

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 San Geronimo, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- San Geronimo) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.