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 Pasqual (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 Pasqual. 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 northwest 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 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 west 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.
San Pasqual 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 San Pasqual. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to San Pasqual:
- San Diego County (The home county of San Pasqual)
- The following are listed by their distance from San Pasqual, with the one closest to San Pasqual listed first.
- Ramona
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Escondido
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Rancho Bernardo
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Poway
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Valley Center
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Mussey Grove ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Mussey Grove is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mussey Grove
- San Diego Country Estates
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Mesa Grande ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Mesa Grande is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Grande
- San Marcos
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Hidden Meadows
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Hidden Meadows is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hidden Meadows
- Lawrence Welk Resort Village
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Eucalyptus Hills
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Eucalyptus Hills is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eucalyptus Hills
- Lake San Marcos
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Lake San Marcos is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake San Marcos
- Riverside County
- The following are listed by their distance from San Pasqual, with the one closest to San Pasqual listed first.
- Aguanga
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Rainbow Canyon Village
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Lake Village
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Lake Village is located in Riverside County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Village
- Temecula
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to San Pasqual, see our County-by-County Page for San Pasqual.
Cemeteries Near San Pasqual ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of San Pasqual.
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 Pasqual - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for San Pasqual covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from San Pasqual, with the one closest to San Pasqual listed first.
- Memory Gardens Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Oak Hill Memorial Park
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Dearborn Memorial Park
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dearborn Memorial Park
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Dearborn Memorial Park is a large cemetery that is located in Poway.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7932 <2>
- Valley Center Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- St. Bartholomew Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- San Marcos Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Indian Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Pauma Valley Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Olivenhain Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Carmel Valley Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- El Camino Memorial Park
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Miramar National Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (20 more) ...
- Indian Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Pala Tribal Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Julian Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 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.<4>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, San Pasqual had a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from San Pasqual, with the one closest to San Pasqual listed first.
- Escondido
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Poway
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Valley Center
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Ballena
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Ballena is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ballena
- Mesa Grande ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Mesa Grande is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Grande
- San Marcos
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Twin Oaks
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Twin Oaks is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Oaks
- El Capitan ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- El Capitan is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Capitan
- Buena
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Buena is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buena
- Riverview
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Riverview is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview
- Lakeside
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Santa Ysabel
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Continue List (16 more) ...
- Santee
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Wynola
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Wynola is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wynola
- Buena Vista
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Buena Vista is located in San Diego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buena Vista
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around San Pasqual. See our List of 1890's Communities around San Pasqual.
Newspapers Published in San Pasqual ...
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 158 newspapers that have been published in the area around San Pasqual.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of San Pasqual, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for San Pasqual.
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 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 Pasqual:
- Websites specific to California
- Pages specific to San Diego County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- San Pasqual) 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 San Pasqual, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |