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Genealogy Resources

California Genealogy Resources

  • CaliforniaAncestors.org - California Genealogical Society and Library. The California Genealogical Society, organized in San Francisco on February 12, 1898, is one of the premier genealogical resources in Northern California. The Library is rich in genealogy reference materials, both standard and unique, covering people and places in California and the rest of the country. The Society offers research services, online one-of-a-kind genealogical indexes and databases, and a research library housing over 38,000 reference materials from California, the United States, and around the world.

  • California Births, 1905-1995. From Family Tree Legends.
     
  • Los Angeles County Burial Permits 1870-1892. Southern California Genealogical Society.
     
  • California County History.

  • California County Marriages, 1850-1952 - Name index of marriage records including a number of different type of documents such as licenses, certificates, registers, applications, affidavits, stubs, etc. - 281,432 records as of 13 April 2011.
     
  • California Death Records. (1940-1997)

  • California Digital Library. The California Digital Library supports the assembly and creative use of the world's scholarship and knowledge for the University of California libraries and the communities they serve.
     
  • The California 1890 Great Register of Voters Index. North Salt Lake, Utah: Heritage Quest, 2001, 3 volumes. Compiled by volunteers of various California genealogical societies as part of a project for the California State Genealogical Alliance. Available in book format and on CD.

  • California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records, 1835-1931 – Imaged Records -This project was indexed in partnership with the California Genealogical Society and Library. Name index and images of funeral home records from the Halsted N. Gray – Carew & English Mortuary Collection, located at the San Francisco Public Library. Images for all years in collection can be browsed, but name index currently covers only years 1896-1931. Collection includes a number of different funeral homes acquired over time by the Halsted N. Gray – Carew & English Mortuary company, most from the San Francisco area, but also including some from Burlingame, Stockton, and Sacramento. The collection includes funeral register books, burial registers, account books, case books, etc. Indexes appear at the beginning of some volumes. FamilySearch.

  • California, San Mateo County Records – 1856-1967 – Browsable Images – County records including marriage intentions, naturalizations, deeds, patents, homesteads, and military service discharges.
     
  • California State University, Chico -- Meriam Library Special Collections -- Historic Photographs. The rich visual heritage of northeastern California is documented in over 18.000 historical photographs, many dating from the 19th century and representing a wide variety of early photographic processes.
     
  • California GenWeb.
     
  • California Vital Records Search.  Includes some California county vital records indexes online.
     
  • Foreign-Born Voters of California, 1872.
     
  • Index to the California Information File, 1846-1986.  Microfiche of index cards at the California State Library in Sacramento. Has 717,000 cards bearing about 1.4 million citations to information in California periodicals, newspapers, manuscript collections, selected books, vertical file collections, county histories, government documents, theses, biographical encyclopedias, biographical files, etc. Available on 550 microfiche, beginning with FHL fiche #6333977.
     
  • Index to the Gold Rush Census, California, 1852: An Every Name Index of the 1852 California Census Microfilm and the Subsequent 1935 D.A.R. Transcription. CD-ROM. Burbank, California: Southern California Genealogical Society, 2000. FHL CD # 1017.
     
  • Index to the Great Register of Voters, 1886-1890, County of San Bernardino, State of California. Yucca Valley, California: Genealogical Society of Morongo Basin. This is an alphabetic index of approximately 10,000 names of the men who registered to vote in San Bernardino County, CA during the period 1886-1890.

  • Online Archive of California. The OAC brings together historical materials from a variety of California institutions, including museums, historical societies, and archives. Over 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of documents, letters, and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to collections are available.

  • People of California. Ca.gov. Links.
     
  • San Francisco Call Database 1869-1895. For the 27 year period 1869-1891, the annual birth, marriage, and death records are merged and then broken into smaller files of about 35K each. This will allow a surname search using only one file. Subsequent years are broken into similarly sized files. The smaller file sizes will reduce the access time to download the file.
     
  • San Francisco Genealogy.
     
  • San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection. The collection contains more than 250,000 photographs of San Francisco and California scenes ranging from 1850 to the present.
     
  • Santa Clara-Mission City Memorial Park Burials. Santa Clara County Historical Genealogical Society.
     
  • Western States Marriage Record Index.  For more than two decades, the BYU-Idaho (formerly known as Ricks College) Arthur Porter Special Collections area in Rexburg, Idaho has been extracting early marriage records from counties in the western part of the United States. Virtually all of the pre-1900 marriages are included in the index for Arizona , Idaho and Nevada . Many counties for those same states have been extracted into the 1930's and some, much later. A significant number of marriages from selected counties in California , western Colorado , Montana , Oregon , Utah , eastern Washington , and Wyoming are also included.
     
  • Who Perished: A List of Persons Who Died as a Result of the Great Earthquake of 1906.