| Old Republic Title Company, "the Company", was formed in California in 1969 under the name of Founders Title Company with a small office in the town of Concord, Contra Costa County . Success soon brought the expansion that enabled Founders to serve other burgeoning Bay Area communities, beginning in the California counties of San Francisco in 1970; San Mateo and Alameda in 1971; Marin in 1974; San Diego in 1976; Monterey and Santa Cruz in 1977; San Joaquin and Sonoma in 1978, State of Hawaii in 1981, and the California counties of Stanislaus and Tulare in 1991. |