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California Birth, Marriage, & Death Records
California Birth Indexes & Birth Records
- US – United States Births and Christenings, 1867-1931, index
- US – United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index links to images
- California – California Birth Index, 1905-1995, index
- California – California birth indexes on CD, 1905-1995
- California – California Births and Christenings, 1812-1988, index
- California – California, Church Records, 1864-1985, index links to images
- California – California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994, index & images
- California – California, county birth and death records, 1849-1994
- California – Genealogical records of Sherman Lee Pompey
- California – Indexes for brides and grooms, 1949-1959, State of California
- California – Limited information from miscellaneous California counties
- California – Unpublished records of the families of California pioneers: Collections of the State Committee of Genealogical Research, Daughters of the American Revolution (California)
- California – Agency records, 1915-1934 (Bureau of Indian Affairs, Yuma AZ Agency)
- California – Vital records from cemeteries
- California – Jugoslav-American immigrant history series (especially San Francisco)
- Nevada – Nevada County Birth and Death Records, 1871-1992, index & images
- Los Angeles County – California, Los Angeles County, North Hollywood, Pierce Brothers Memorial Park Cemetery, Memorial Tablets, 1943-1980, index links to images
- San Francisco County – California, San Francisco County Records, 1824-1997, index & images
- San Mateo County – California, San Mateo County Records, 1851-1991, index & images
- Colorado River – Indian census rolls, Colorado River, 1885-1940
- Fort Yuma – Indian census rolls, Fort Yuma, 1905-1935
- Hoopa Valley – Birth and death certificates, 1901-1947 (Bureau of Indian Affairs, Hoopa Valley Agency)
- Hoopa Valley – Indian census rolls, Hoopa Valley, 1885-1939
- Oakland – California, Oakland Family History Center newspaper record collection, 1980-2011
- Oakland – California, Oakland, Alameda County, newspaper record collection, 1985-2011
- Oakland – California, Oakland, Alameda County, newspaper record collection, 1985-2011
- Palo Alto, San Francisco region – Vital records from the Daily Alta California, including record from the Golden Era and the Wild West, 1854
- Round Valley – Birth and death records, 1901-1924 (Bureau of Indian Affairs, Round Valley Agency)
- Sacramento – California historical research, birth records/notices from various newspapers, 1863-1874 (Sacramento Daily Union)
- Sacramento – California/Nevada historical research, birth records/notices, 1863-1914
- Sacramento – Vital statistics index, California State Library, Sacramento, California : ca. 1800’s-1920
- Sacramento Valley – Births and deaths, 1910-1947 (Bureau of Indian Affairs, Sacramento Agency)
- Tule River Valley – Births and deaths, 1924-1938 (Bureau of Indian Affairs, Tule River Agency)
California Marriage Indexes & Marriage Records
- US – United States Western States Marriage Index, index
- US – United States, GenealogyBank Historic Newspaper Marriages, 1815-2011, index links to images
- California – California Divorce Index, 1966-1984, index
- California – California Marriage Index, 1960-1985, index
- California – California Marriages, 1850-1945, index
- California – California, County Marriages, 1850-1952, index & images
- California – California, Church Records, 1864-1985, index links to images
- California – Agency records, 1915-1934 (Bureau of Indian Affairs, Yuma AZ Agency)
- California – Genealogical records of Sherman Lee Pompey
- California – Indexes for brides and grooms, 1949-1959, State of California
- California – Limited information from miscellaneous California counties
- California – Northern California marriage index, 1850-1860 : marriages from twenty-two northern California counties
- California – Unpublished records of the families of California pioneers: Collections of the State Committee of Genealogical Research, Daughters of the American Revolution (California)
- California – Jugoslav-American immigrant history series (esp. San Francisco area)
- Nevada – Nevada Marriage Index, 1956-2005, index
- Alameda County – California, Oakland, Alameda County, Newspaper Record Collection, 1985-2011, index & images
- San Francisco County – California, San Francisco County Records, 1824-1997, index & images
- San Mateo County – California, San Mateo County Records, 1851-1991, index & images
- Colorado River – Indian census rolls, Colorado River, 1885-1940
- Fort Yuma – Indian census rolls, Fort Yuma, 1905-1935
- Hoopa Valley – Indian census rolls, Hoopa Valley, 1885-1939
- Oakland – California, Oakland Family History Center newspaper record collection, 1980-2011
- Oakland – California, Oakland, Alameda County, newspaper record collection, 1985-2011
- Oakland – California, Oakland, Alameda County, newspaper record collection, 1985-2011
- Palo Alto, San Francisco region – Vital records from the Daily Alta California, including record from the Golden Era and the Wild West, 1854
- Sacramento – California/Nevada historical research, marriage records/notices, ca. 1847-1910
- Sacramento – Vital statistics index, California State Library, Sacramento, California : ca. 1800’s-1920
California Divorce Indexes & Divorce Records
- California – California, divorce index, 1966-1984
California Death Indexes & Death Records
- US – United States Deaths and Burials, 1867-1961, index
- US – United States Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968, index & images
- US – United States Korean War Dead and Army Wounded, 1950-1953, index
- US – United States Military Personnel who Died During the Vietnam War, 1956-2003, index
- US – United States Register of Confederates and Civilians Who Died in the North,1861-1865, index & images
- US – United States Social Security Death Index, index
- US – United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index links to images
- US – United States, Panama Canal Zone, Index to the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Registers, 1906-1991, index
- California – Agency records, 1915-1934 (Bureau of Indian Affairs, Yuma AZ Agency)
- California – California Death Index, 1905-1939, index & images
- California – California Death Index, 1940-1997, index
- California – California death indexes on CD
- California – California death indexes, 1905-1988 ; 1940-1994
- California – California Deaths and Burials, 1776-2000, index links to images
- California – California, Church Records, 1864-1985, index links to images
- California – California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994, index & images
- California – California, county birth and death records, 1849-1994
- California – California, county birth and death records, 1849-1994
- California – California, death index, 1905-1939
- California – California, death index, 1940-1997
- California – California, Oakland, Alameda County, Newspaper Record Collection, 1985-2011, index & images
- California – Genealogical records of Sherman Lee Pompey
- California – Indexes for brides and grooms, 1949-1959, State of California
- California – Limited information from miscellaneous California counties
- California – Unpublished records of the families of California pioneers: Collections of the State Committee of Genealogical Research, Daughters of the American Revolution (California)
- California –California census, 1880
- Colorado River – Indian census rolls, Colorado River, 1885-1940
- Fort Yuma – Indian census rolls, Fort Yuma, 1905-1935
- Hoopa Valley – Birth and death certificates, 1901-1947 (Bureau of Indian Affairs, Hoopa Valley Agency)
- Hoopa Valley – Indian census rolls, Hoopa Valley, 1885-1939
- California – Jugoslav-American immigrant history series (esp. San Francisco area)
- Sacramento region – Mortuary records 1849-1900 (northern California)
- Nevada – Nevada County Birth and Death Records, 1871-1992, index & images
- New Jersey – New Jersey, Death Index, 1901-1903, index links to images
- Oakland – California, Oakland Family History Center newspaper record collection, 1980-2011
- Oakland – California, Oakland, Alameda County, newspaper record collection, 1985-2011
- Oakland – California, Oakland, Alameda County, newspaper record collection, 1985-2011
- Palo Alto, San Francisco region – Vital records from the Daily Alta California, including record from the Golden Era and the Wild West, 1854
- Round Valley – Birth and death records, 1901-1924 (Bureau of Indian Affairs, Round Valley Agency)
- Sacramento – Vital statistics index, California State Library, Sacramento, California : ca. 1800’s-1920
- Sacramento Valley – Births and deaths, 1910-1947 (Bureau of Indian Affairs, Sacramento Agency)
- San Francisco County – California, San Francisco County Records, 1824-1997, index & images
- San Leandro – Death claim registers, 1880-1979; membership registers, 1880-1964
- San Mateo County – California, San Mateo County Records, 1851-1991, index & images
- Tule River Valley – Births and deaths, 1924-1938 (Bureau of Indian Affairs, Tule River Agency)
Cemeteries
- US – BillionGraves Index, index links to images
- US – Find A Grave Index, index links to images
- US – United States, Cemetery Abstracts, 1949-1969, index links to images
- US – United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images
- US – United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images
- US – United States, Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921, index & images
- California – California Cemetery Transcriptions, 1850-1960, index & images
- California – Vital records from cemeteries
- Lassen County – California, Lassen County, State Board of Health, Burial Permits, 1931-1988, index links to images
- Los Angeles County – California, Los Angeles County, North Hollywood, Pierce Brothers Memorial Park Cemetery, Memorial Tablets, 1943-1980, index links to images
- Mendocino County – California, Mendocino County, Ukiah, Russian River Cemetery District, Index to Burials, 1850-1990, index links to images
- Santa Clara County – California, Santa Clara County, San Jose, Oak Hill Cemetery Headstone Inscriptions, 1838-1985, index links to images
- Los Angeles – California, Los Angeles, Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery, Deceased Card File Index, 1877-1989, index links to images
- Los Gatos – California, Los Gatos, Los Gatos Memorial Park Cemetery Card Index to Burials, 1889-1989, index links to images
- Oakland – California, Oakland, Mountain View Cemetery Records, 1857-1973, index links to images
- Sacramento – California, Sacramento Cemetery Records, 1900-1959, index links to images
- California – California cemetery transcriptions, 1850-1960
- Mortuary records 1849-1900 (northern California)
- San Mateo County – California, San Mateo County, Colma, Italian Cemetery Records, 1899-2011
- Burials in some small abandoned California cemetaries
- California cemetery inscriptions
- California cemetery records
- California cemetery records : miscellaneous. [19–]
- California cemetery transcriptions, 1850-1960
- California’s old burying grounds
- Cemeteries of El Dorado County, California, Heart of the 1949 gold fields, vol. 1
- Cemetery records of California
- California – Jugoslav-American immigrant history series (esp. San Francisco area)
- Limited information from miscellaneous California counties
- List of deaths copied from records in the California State Library
- San Francisco – San Francisco death index – the book of the dead – miscellaneous
- Tombstone inscriptions and/or cemetery records : [Clay surnames]
- Vital records from cemeteries
- Vital records from cemeteries in California, to 1962
Funeral Homes
- San Francisco – California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records, 1835-1979, index & images
- California – List of deaths copied from records in the California State Library
Obituaries
- US – Currentobituary.com index, 2001-2014, index links to images
- US – United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011, index links to images
- US – United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014, index & images
- US – United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images
- Butte County – California, Napa and Butte Counties, Obituaries, 1866-1992, index & images
- Fresno County – California, Fresno and Napa Counties, Obituaries, 1974-1997, index & images
- Napa County – California, Fresno and Napa Counties, Obituaries, 1974-1997, index & images
- Napa County – California, Napa and Butte Counties, Obituaries, 1866-1992, index & images
- San Joaquin County – California, San Joaquin, County Public Library Obituary Index, 1850-1991, index & images
- Fresno Bee obituary index for California, 1982-1987
- California obituaries, 1983-2014
- California/Nevada historical research, newspaper death notices, 1863-1930
- Deaths: Rev. Arthur F. Brainard
- Graves family news
- Limited information from miscellaneous California counties
- Our deepest sympathy : Vera Glen Studebaker
- Pahrump, Nevada Genealogical Society obits 1970-2009
- Vital records from cemeteries
- Western states Deseret News deaths (card file) 1970
Wills & Probate
- US – United States Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1800-c. 1955
- US – United States Internal Revenue Assessment Lists, 1862-1874
- US – United States, Cancelled, Relinquished, or Rejected Land Entry Case Files, 1861-1932
- US – United States, Homestead Final Certificates, 1863-1909
- US – United States, Freedmen’s Branch Records, 1872-1878
- California – California, probate estate files, 1833-1991
- California – California, Collections of the California Genealogical Society, 1700-1942
California Residence Records
Census
- 1790 – The census of 1790 : a demographic history of colonial California
- 1796-1798 – California, census records : pre-statehood census, 1796-1798
- 1848-1863 – Missourians in the San Francisco, California death records, 1848-1863 : [and] Missourians in the 1870 mortality census records of California [and] Missourians in the death records of Marysville, Yuba County, California, 1870-1900
- 1848-1970 – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images
- 1850 – United States Census, 1850, index & images
- 1850 – California, 1850 federal census
- 1850-1880 – Jugoslav-American immigrant history series
- 1852 – 1852 California census
- 1852 – 1852 California census (continued)
- 1852 – 1852 California census continued
- 1852 – 1852 California state census
- 1852 – California census of 1852
- 1852 – California state census, 1852
- 1852 – California State Census, 1852, index
- 1852 – California, state census, 1852
- 1852 – Censuses of California, 1852, 1860, 1870, 1880
- 1852 – Censuses of California, 1852, 1860, 1870, 1880: Chinese names in census rolls
- 1860 – California, 1860 federal census
- 1860 – Censuses of California, 1852, 1860, 1870, 1880
- 1860 – Censuses of California, 1852, 1860, 1870, 1880: Chinese names in census rolls
- 1860 – Index to Federal census, California, 1860, p. 415
- 1860 – United States Census, 1860, index & images
- 1870 – California, 1870 federal census
- 1870 – Censuses of California, 1852, 1860, 1870, 1880
- 1870 – Censuses of California, 1852, 1860, 1870, 1880: Chinese names in census rolls
- 1870 – United States Census, 1870, index & images
- 1870 – St. Catherine’s Academy
- 1880 – 1880 census-California
- 1880 – Arthur’s in California
- 1880 – California census, 1880
- 1880 – California, 1880 federal census
- 1880 – California, 1880 federal census
- 1880 – Censuses of California, 1852, 1860, 1870, 1880
- 1880 – Censuses of California, 1852, 1860, 1870, 1880 : Chinese names in census rolls
- 1880 – Censuses of California, 1852, 1860, 1870, 1880: Chinese names in census rolls
- 1880 – Special census of Indians, 1880
- 1880 – United States Census, 1880, index & images
- 1885-1939 – Indian census rolls, Hoopa Valley, 1885-1939
- 1885-1940 – Indian census rolls, Colorado River, 1885-1940
- 1885-1940 – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images
- 1890 – United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890, index & images
- 1899-1904, 1915-1920 – Indians census rolls, Digger, 1899-1904 and 1915-1920
- 1900 – California, 1900 federal census
- 1900 – California, 1900 federal census
- 1900 – United States Census, 1900, index & images
- 1900-1940 – United States Enumeration District Maps for the Twelfth through the Sixteenth US Censuses, 1900-1940
- 1905-1935 – Indian census rolls, Fort Yuma, 1905-1935
- 1908-1910 – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images
- 1910 – California, 1910 federal census
- 1910 – California, 1910 federal census
- 1910 – United States Census, 1910, index & images
- 1915-1930 – Indian census rolls, Fort Bidwell, 1915-1930
- 1916-1923 – Indians census rolls, Greenville, 1916-1923
- 1920 – California, 1920 federal census
- 1920 – California, 1920 federal census
- 1920 – United States Census, 1920, index & images
- 1930 – California, 1930 federal census
- 1930 – United States Census of Merchant Seamen, 1930, index
- 1930 – United States Census, 1930, index & images
- 1940 – California, 1940 population census
- 1940 – United States Census, 1940, index & images
Colonization
Directories
- The California register: the only statewide directory for California listing prominent citizens; their addresses; telephone numbers; social, cultural, and philanthropic affiliations; and family members …
- Disturnell’s business directory and gazetteer of the West Coast of North America, 1882-1883
- Handbook almanac for the Pacific states: an official register and business directory
- Langley’s Pacific Coast business directory, 1871-1873
- McKenney’s Pacific Coast directory, 1883-1884
- Mercantile guide to cities and suburbs of the United States of America
- Pacific Coast business directory, 1867
- The Pacific Coast directory: giving name, business, and address of business and professional men of California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, and New Mexico together with sketches of the different towns, giving location, population, etc.
- The Russian Molokan directory : Arizona, California, Oregon, Lower California, Mexico
- San Francisco blue book and Pacific Coast elite directory, 1890-1892
- San Jose city directory: including Santa Clara, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, San Benito, and Monterey counties, 1889, 1899
Emigration/Immigration/Migration
- United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, index & images
- United States, California, List of United States Citizens Arriving at San Francisco, 1930-1949, index links to images
- United States, California, San Francisco, Records of Chinese Laborers Returning to the US, 1882-1888, index links to images
- United States Index to Alien Case Files, 1940-2003, index links to images
- California, San Pedro, Immigration Office Special Inquiry Records, 1930-1936, index & images
- United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956, index
- United States Border Crossings from Mexico to United States, 1903-1957, index
- California Immigration Registers of Japanese, Filipinos, and Hawaiians at San Francisco, 1928-1942, index & images
- California, Airplane Passenger Lists from Honolulu, Hawaii, 1947-1948, index & images
- California, Chinese Partnerships and Departures from San Francisco, 1893-1943, index & images
- California, Los Angeles Passenger Lists, 1907-1948, index & images
- California, Northern U.S. District Court Naturalization Index, 1852-1989, index & images
- California, Pioneer Migration Index, Compiled 1906-1935, index links to images
- California, San Diego Naturalization Index, 1868-1958, index links to images
- California, San Diego Passenger Lists, 1904-1952, index & images
- California, San Diego, Airplane Passenger and Crew Lists, 1929-1954, index & images
- California, San Diego, Chinese Passenger and Crew Lists, 1905-1923, index & images
- California, San Francisco Airplane Arrival Card Index, 1936-1949, index & images
- California, San Francisco Passenger Lists, 1893-1953, index & images
- California, San Francisco Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving, 1954-1957, index & images
- California, San Francisco, Immigration Office Special Inquiry Records, 1910-1941, index & images
- California, San Francisco, Register of Chinese Immigrant Court Cases and Foreign Seamen Tax Cards, 1883-1924, index & images
- Early American highways : Oregon, California and Mormon Trails
- Index to The argonauts of California, [by] Charles Warren Haskins
- Alien crew manifests of vessels arriving at San Francisco, California, 1896-1921 : NARA publication M1437
- Alphabetical index of ships arrival at the port of San Francisco, California, from ca. 1840 to 1 December 1954
- The argonauts of ‘forty-nine : some recollections of the plains and the diggings
- California, Los Angeles passenger lists, 1907-1948
- Chinese immigration certificate of identity, California, 1908-1943 : NARA, RG 85
- Crew lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco, California, 1905-1921 : NARA publication M1416
- Early California and Nogales, Arizona lists of expeditionary members, soldiers and residents, 1752, 1775, 1781-1837 : material emphasizes Santa Barbara, Calif.
- Lists of Chinese applying for admission to the United States through the port of San Francisco, California, 1903-1921 : NARA RG85 publication M1476
- Lists of Chinese passengers arriving in San Francisco, California, 1882- 1914 : NARA publication M1414
- Manifests of alien arrivals at San Ysidro (Tia Juana) California, April 21, 1908-December 1952 : NARA RG85 series M1767
- The overland stage to California : Personal reminiscences and authentic history of the great overland stage line and pony express from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean
- Passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Pedro/Wilmington/Los Angeles, California, June 29, 1907-June 30, 1948 : record group 85, M1764
- Pioneer index file (California), 1906-1935
- Records of the Russian Consular Offices in the United States : NARA publication M1486, 1862-1928
- Register of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of California : a record of descent from passengers on the good ship Mayflower, A.D. 1620, with an appendix
- Registers of Chinese laborers returning to the U.S. through the port of San Francisco, 1882-1888 : NARA RG85 publication M1413
- Unpublished records of the families of California pioneers : Collections of the State Committee of Genealogical Research, Daughters of the American Revolution (California)
- What I saw in California : its soil, climate, productions, and gold mines, with routes, and advice to intending emigrants
Land & Property
- California as it is: Being a concise description of the state by counties … Compiled from late and authentic sources. Preceded by a sketch of early California … Also, an elaborate appendix … including information concerning government and state lands, of importance to intending settlers
- California, land records: private land claims dockets, 1849-1895
- Historical and biographical atlas of the New Jersey coast
- History of Marin County (California): including its geography, geology, topography and climatography, together with a record of the Mexican grants, names, of pioneers, a complete political history and biographical sketches of its early settlers and representative men, also a historical sketch of the state of California, in which is embodied the rising of the bear flag
- Index and calendar to private land grant cases, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 1853-1904
- Index by county to private land grant cases, U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern districts of California
- Index to private land grant cases, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
- Land records 1851-1936 (California)
- Private land grant cases in the Circuit Court of the Northern District of California, 1852-1910
- Ranchos of California, a list of Spanish concessions, 1775-1822, and Mexican grants, 1822-1846
- Spanish archives, 1833-1845
- Index to patents (California), 1850-1900
Maps, Almanacs, & Gazetteers
- California county boundaries : a study of the division of the state into counties and the subsequent changes in their boundaries, with maps
- Historical diagram of New Mexico
- Disturnell’s business directory and gazetteer of the West Coast of North America, 1882-1883
- California county boundaries : a study of the division of the state into counties and the subsequent changes in their boundaries, with maps
- The Famous Mormon way-bill to the gold mines of California : an offset reproduction of the famous Way-Bill published in 1851 that directed thousands of gold seekers during the mid-century 1800’s
- Historical atlas of California
Medical
- US – United States, Panama Canal Zone, Index to the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Registers, 1906-1991, index
Naturalization & Citizenship
- United States, New England Petitions for Naturalization Index, 1791-1906, index & images
- California, Southern District Court (Central) Naturalization Index, 1915-1976, index & images
- California County Naturalizations, 1831-1985, index & images
- California, northern U.S. District Court naturalization index, 1852-1989
- General card index to naturalized citizens, 1915-1978
- Index cards to overseas military petitions of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, Central Division (Los Angeles), 1943-45, 1954, 1955-56 : NARA RG21 publication M1606
- Index to naturalization in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, ca. 1860-1989
- Naturalization Records in the Superior Court of San Diego, California, 1883-1958 ; Index to Naturalized Citizens from the Superior Court of San Diego, California, 1868-1958 : NARA publications M1609, M1612, M1613, and M1526
- Selected indexes to naturalization records of the U.S. Circuit and District Courts, Northern District of California, 1852-1928 : NARA RG21 publication T1220
- California county naturalizations, 1831-1985
- California court deposited declarations of intention from out-of-state, 1846-1903
- Declarations of intention, 1927-1948
- Military petition record of naturalizations (San Francisco, California), 1918 : NARA, RG
- Monthly reports of naturalization papers (California), 1939-1990 : NARA
- Naturalization records of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, Central Division (Los Angeles), 1887-1940 ; index to naturalization records of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, Central Division, Los Angeles, 1887-1937 : NARA publications M1524 and M1607
- Naturalization records, 1903-1991 (San Francisco, California)
Passport
- United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, index & images
Taxation
- Internal revenue assessment lists for California, 1862-1866
- Nevada County, California, tax deeds, 1866-1916 ; index, 1866-1911
Voting
- California Great Registers, 1866-1910, index
- Great registers of California : miscellaneous county voting registers, 1867-1890
California Daily Life Records
Alumni, Schools, & Yearbooks
- Record of students, 1897-1911, 1915
- School records, 1896-1942
- School records, 1897-1916
- School records, 1920-1940
Bibliography
Biography
- Biography card index, California State Library, Sacramento, ca. 1890-1950
- California, pioneer migration index, compiled 1906-1935
- Index to American Biography and Genealogy : California edition v. 1 & 2
- Mormons and their neighbors : an index to over 75,000 biographical sketches from 1820 to the present
- Pioneers of California index : index to the Daughters of the American Revolution collection of 26 volumes of California pioneer biographies
- American biography and genealogy : California
- Bench and bar of California, 1937-38
- California and Californians
- California and Californians
- California och dess svenska befolkning, af Ernst Skarstedt : Med en färglagd karta öfver California, öfver 200 portätt och 100 andra illustrationer. På eget förlag
- California of the south : a history
- California pioneer register and index, 1542-1848 : including inhabitants of California, 1769-1800, and list of pioneers
- California, 1849-1913 : or, The rambling sketches and experiences of sixty-four years’ residence in that state
- Capitol’s state who’s who combined with who’s who for the Western states : July, 1953 issue
- Chronicles of the builders of the commonwealth : historical character study
- Davis’ commercial encyclopedia of the pacific southwest : California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona
- The Gila Trail : the Texas Argonauts and the California gold rush
- Greater Los Angeles and southern California : their portraits and chronological record of their careers
- Greater Los Angeles and Southern California : their portraits and chronological records of their careers
- Historical and biographical record of southern California : containing a history of southern California from its earliest settlement to the opening year of the twentieth century ; also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present
- A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties : also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present
- A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties : also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present
- A history of California and an extended history of Los Angeles and environs : also containing biographies of well known citizens of the past and present
- History of the bench and bar of California
- History of the bench and bar of California : being biographies of many remarkable men, a store of humorous and pathetic recollections, accounts of important legislation and extraordinary cases, comprehending the judicial history of the state
- History of the bench and bar of California : being biographies of many remarkable men, a store of humorous and pathetic recollections, accounts of important legislation and extraordinary cases, comprehending the judicial history of the state
- A History of the medical profession of southern California
- History of the state of California and biographical record of coast counties, California : an historic story of the state’s marvelous growth from its earliest settlement to the present time ; also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present
- History of the state of California and biographical record of coast counties, California : an historical story of the state’s marvelous growth from its earliest settlement to the present time
- History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin Valley, California : an historical story of the state’s marvelous growth from its earliest settlement to the present time, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present
- History of the Supreme Court Justices of California
- An illustrated history of Southern California
- An illustrated history of southern California : embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the peninsula of lower California, from the earliest period of occupancy to the present time, together with glimpses of their prospects, also, full-page portraits of some of their eminent men, and biographical mention of many of their pioneers and of prominent citizens of to-day
- Journalism in California
- A Memorial and biographical history of northern California
- A memorial and biographical history of northern California, illustrated : containing a history of this important section of the Pacific coast from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time, together with glimpses of its prospective future; full-page steel portraits of its most eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers and also of prominent citizens of today
- A memorial and biographical history of the coast counties of Central California : containing a history of this important section of the Pacific coast from the earliest period of its discovery to the present time, together with glimpses of its auspicious future; illustrations and full-page portraits of some of its eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers, and prominent citizens of to-day
- A memorial and biographical history of the counties of Merced, Stanislaus, Calaveras, Tuolumne and Mariposa, California..
- Men of California : western personalities and their affiliations
- Men of California, 1900 to 1902
- Military records
- Moore’s who is who in California, 1958
- Pioneer days in California : historical and personal sketches
- Pioneer index file (California), 1906-1935
- Press reference library : notables of the Southwest, being the portraits and biographies of progressive men of the Southwest who have helped in the development and history making of this wonderful country
- Press reference library : notables of the west, being the portraits and biographies of the progressive men of the West who have helped in the development and history making of this wonderful country
- Register of pioneer inhabitants of California, 1542 to 1848, : an index to information concerning them in Bancroft’s history of California, volumes I-V
- Register of the California Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
- Tennesseans in California
- Unpublished records of the families of California pioneers : Collections of the State Committee of Genealogical Research, Daughters of the American Revolution (California)
- A Volume of memoirs and genealogy of representative citizens of northern California : including biographies of many of those who have passed away
- Who’s who among the women of California : an annual devoted to the representative women of California with an authoritative review of their activities in civic, social, athletic, philanthropic, art and music, literary and dramatic circles
- Who’s who among the women of California : an annual devoted to the representative women of California with an authoritative review of their activities in civic, social, athletic, philanthropic, art and music, literary and dramatic circles
- Who’s who in California, 1928-29: a biographical directory
- Who’s who in California, 1942-1943
- Pan-Pacific who’s who, an international reference work: a biographical encyclopedia of men and women of substantial achievement in the Pan-Pacific area: Alaska, Australia, British Columbia, California, Canal Zone, China, Hawaii, Japan, New Zealand, Oregon, Philippines, Washington
- Who’s who in the Pacific southwest: a compilation of authentic biographical sketches of citizens of Southern California and Arizona
Business Records & Commerce
- Death claim registers, 1880-1979; membership registers, 1880-1964
- Employee records, 1894-1950
- Notice industrielle sur la Californie, par m. Ch. Bouchacourt …
- Records of the Russian-American Company, 1802-1867
- Slavery era insurance registry
Church
- California, births and christenings, 1812-1988
- California, church records, 1864-1985
- California, marriages, 1850-1945
- California annual conference : lay association and lay electoral conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held at Pacific Grove, September 12-15, 1911
- Church records (California & Nevada), 1863-1878
- Church records, 1867-1917
- Church records, 1869-1916
- Church records, 1876-1945
- The fruitage of fifty years in California : A history of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of California, in connection with the United Lutheran Church in America, 1891-1941 ; together with a brief sketch of each of the congregations of the Synod, and a biography of the sons and daughters of the Synod who have given themselves in full time service to the church
- In Memoriam 1957 : Southern California-Arizona annual conference, the Methodist Church, 17 June 1957
- Journal of Reverend William Hiram Leflar Marshall, 1910-1956
- Mission registers, 1772-1906
- Records of the American Missionary Association (Congregational) among the Chinese : principally in California
- Records of the First United Presbyterian Congregation in Cambridge, in the village of Cambridge, Washington County, N. Y
- Santa Clara Mission, index to baptismal records, 1777-1855
- California Mormons, the first 100 years
- A century of Mormon activities in California
- The Church of Jesus Christ in California during the Gold Rush
- Churches of El Dorado County, California : their history covering a period of ninety years from 1850 to 1940
- Early California Mormons
- The early days of my Episcopate
- The fruitage of fifty years in California : A history of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of California, in connection with the United Lutheran Church in America, 1891-1941 ; together with a brief sketch of each of the congregations of the Synod, and a biography of the sons and daughters of the Synod who have given themselves in full time service to the church
- Glimpses of California and the missions
- Historical sketch of the Synod of New Jersey for the quarter of a centur y, from 1861 to 1886 : a discourse delivered in the First Presbyterian Church of Camden, N.J., at the opening of the Synod, October 18th, 1886
- History of the California Conference of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America, 1893-1953
- The king’s highway : El Camino Real y Neustra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles
- The Methodist pioneers of California : souvenir booklet of the hundredth anniversary of Methodism in California, 1847-1947
- The missions and missionaries of California
- The missions and missionaries of California
- The missions of California and the old Southwest
- The missions of California, their establishment, progress and decay
- Mormon gold : the story of California’s Mormon argonauts
- Records of the American Missionary Association (Congregational) among the Chinese : principally in California
- The romance of Lutheranism in California : compiled in commemoration of the Centennial of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod on the Pacific Coast
- The secularization of the California missions, 1810-1846
- A century of Mormon activities in California
- California mission
- The Calimis : California Mission news bulletin
Court Records
- Admiralty case files of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, 1850-1900
- Court records, 1854-1938
- Private land grant cases in the Circuit Court of the Northern District of California, 1852-1910
- Records from court houses and churches in California, volume I
- Records of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and predecessor courts, 1851-1950
- Index to records of Appellate Court cases, 1900-1930
- Index to records of Supreme Court cases, 1850-1930
- Index to transcripts of court cases in State Archives, Attorney General, State of California
Description & Travel
- Afoot and alone : a walk from sea to sea by the southern route. Adventures and observations in southern California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, etc.
- By sea to the California gold fields 1850-1851
- California and Oregon : or, Sights in the gold region, and scenes by the way
- California as it is : Being a concise description of the state by counties … Compiled from late and authentic sources. Preceded by a sketch of early California … Also, an elaborate appendix … including information concerning government and state lands, of importance to intending settlers
- California pastoral, 1769-1848
- California sketches
- California: for health, pleasure, and residence : A book for travellers and settlers
- Early American highways Westport west : Oregon, California, and Mormon trails
- Hunting for gold : reminis[c]ences of personal experience and research in the early days of the Pacific coast from Alaska to Panama
- In search of gold as told through Riely letters
- In the heart of the Sierras : the Yo Semite Valley, both historical and descriptive, and scenes by the way ; big tree groves ; the High Sierra, with its magnificent scenery, ancient and modern glaciers, and other objects of interest, with tables of distances and altitudes, maps, etc. : A guide to California’s natural attractions : More than one hundred illustrations
- Life at Puget Sound : with sketches of travel in Washington territory, British Columbia, Oregon, and California, 1865-1881
- Mexico, California and Arizona : being a new and revised edition of Old Mexico and her lost provinces
- Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
- The new West : or, California in 1867-1868
- Personal narrative of explorations & incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the U.S. and Mexican boundary commission, during the years 1850, ’51, ’52 and ’53
- Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission during the years 1850, ’51, ’52, and ’53
- Report of explorations in California for railroad routes, to connect with the routes near the 35th and 32d parallels of north latitude
- Report of the exploring expedition of the Rocky mountains in the year 1842 : and to Oregon and north California in the years 1843-’44
- Scenes of wonder and curiosity in California
- Southern California : comprising the counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Ventura..
- Souvenir of California : Yo Semite Valley and the big trees : what to see and how to see it
- A truthful woman in southern California
- What I saw in California : its soil, climate, productions, and gold mines, with routes, and advice to intending emigrants
- The argonauts of ‘forty-nine : some recollections of the plains and the diggings
- Death valley
- Geologic guidebook along highway 49 : -Sierran gold belt, the mother lode country
- Scenes of wonder and curiosity in California
Employees, Officials, & Occupations
- United States National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel Files, 1954-1970, index
- Bench and bar in California : History, anecdotes, reminiscences
- Bench and bar of California, 1937-38
- Employee record cards, 1900-1930 (Southern Pacific Railroad)
- History of the bench and bar of California
- History of the bench and bar of California : being biographies of many remarkable men, a store of humorous and pathetic recollections, accounts of important legislation and extraordinary cases, comprehending the judicial history of the state
- History of the bench and bar of California : being biographies of many remarkable men, a store of humorous and pathetic recollections, accounts of important legislation and extraordinary cases, comprehending the judicial history of the state
- Register of dentists, 1885-1919
- Employee records, 1894-1950
- Roster of public officials of California
- California blue book : an official directory of the judicial, executive, and legislative departments of the government, and county officers
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Ethnic Records
African American Records
- United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images
- United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images
- United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, index & images
- United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872, index & images
- United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, index & images
- United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records, 1865-1872, index & images
- United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images
- United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen’s Complaints, 1865-1872, index & images
- United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images
Japanese American Records
- United States Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1942-1946, index
- United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images
Jewish Records
Native American Records
- United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images
- United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images
- United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images
- Agency records, 1915-1934
- Birth and death certificates, 1901-1947
- Birth and death records, 1901-1924
- Births and deaths, 1910-1947
- Births and deaths, 1924-1938
- Census records for Roseburg, Greenville and Tule River agencies, 1897-1940
- Census records for Tule River Indian Reservation, 1934-1940
- Census records, 1896-1935
- Census records, 1904-1942
- Census records, 1910-1935
- Census records, 1928, 1935
- Census records, 1931-1943
- A century of dishonor : a sketch of the United States government’s dealings with some of the Indian tribes
- A century of dishonor : a sketch of the United States government’s dealings with some of the Indian tribes
- The Chemehuevi Indians of southern California
- The Diegueño Indians : Phonetic elements of the Diegueño language by A. L. Kroeber and J. P. Harrington ; The anniversary: a contemporary Diegueño complex by John A. Woodward
- The federal Indian policy in California, 1846-1860
- Heirship fees due from heirs up to December 31, 1916
- History of the legal status of the American Indian with particular reference to California
- Index cards for Indians living within jurisdiction of Roseburg or Greenville agencies, 1914-1918
- Indian census rolls, Bishop Agency, 1916-1926
- Indian census rolls, California Special, 1907-1915
- Indian census rolls, Campo, 1916-1920
- Indian census rolls, Carson, 1909-1939
- Indian census rolls, Colorado River, 1885-1940
- Indian census rolls, Fort Bidwell, 1915-1930
- Indian census rolls, Fort Yuma, 1905-1935
- Indian census rolls, Hoopa Valley, 1885-1939
- Indians census rolls, Digger, 1899-1904 and 1915-1920
- Indians census rolls, Greenville, 1916-1923
- Indians of southern California
- Land claims and surveys, 1899-1919
- Land records, 1909-1923
- A mission record of the California Indians : from a manuscript in the Bancroft Library
- Northern California Agency enrollment records, 1952
- Old missions and mission Indians of California
- Record of employees, 1880-1911
- Record of students, 1897-1911, 1915
- Records of employees, 1873-1920
- Records of heirships, early 1900’s
- Report upon the conditions and needs of the Indians of the northwest coast
- San Antonio de Padua, the mission in the Sierras
- San Luis Rey Mission
- Sanitary records of sick and etc., 1890-1905
- School records, 1896-1942
- School records, 1897-1916
- School records, 1920-1940
- Special census of Indians, 1880
- Special census of Indians, Round Valley Agency, l880
- Wills, 1891-1908
- Tribal information and directory
- The Cahuilla Indians of Southern California [their history and culture]
- Early skeletons from Tranquillity, California
- Indians of California
- Descriptive lists [of records at the BIA Phoenix Area Office]
- Yokuts language of California
- Bear facts newsletter, Mar. – Nov. 1973
Minorities
- California och dess svenska befolkning, af Ernst Skarstedt : Med en färglagd karta öfver California, öfver 200 portätt och 100 andra illustrationer. På eget förlag
- Censuses of California, 1852, 1860, 1870, 1880 : Chinese names in census rolls
- Chilenos in California : a study of the 1850, 1852 and 1860 censuses
- Chinese and the early settlement of San Francisco
- The Chinese in Northern California
- The Irish race in California, and on the Pacific coast : with an introductory historical dissertation on the principal races of mankind, and a vocabulary of ancient and modern Irish family names
- The Irish race in California, and on the Pacific coast : with an introductory historical dissertation on the principal races of mankind, and a vocabulary of ancient and modern Irish family names
- Jugoslav-American immigrant history series
- The Negro trail blazers of California : a compilation of records from the California Archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley, and from the diaries, old papers and conversations of old pioneers in the state of California
- Polish pioneers of California
- Records of the American Missionary Association (Congregational) among the Chinese : principally in California
- United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1945-1946
- Death claim registers, 1880-1979; membership registers, 1880-1964
- The Baobab tree : quarterly journal of the African American Genealogical Society of Northern California, Inc. founded 1996
- CCC chatter = California Czechoslovak Club news
Genealogy
- Genie’s workshop of southern California : surname index
- Index to American Biography and Genealogy : California edition v. 1 & 2
- The surname searcher
- American biography and genealogy : California
- Calendar of the Major Jacob Rink Snyder collection of the Society of California Pioneers
- California and Californians
- California annual conference : lay association and lay electoral conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held at Pacific Grove, September 12-15, 1911
- California DAR ancestry guide
- The California Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America lineages
- The Captain Andrew Cathey wagon train : and some genealogy of participating and related families
- Daughters of the American Colonists California collection genealogical records, 1955
- Family group records
- Family histories
- For king or country : a bicentennial project, Revolutionary War era ancestors with 200 years of descendants
- History of Banning and San Gorgonio Pass : in two parts
- History of political conventions in California : 1849-1892
- A history of the new California : its resources and people
- A history of the new California : its resources and people
- Libera Martina Spinazze’s index to the Argonauts of California
- Limited information from miscellaneous California counties
- Lineage cards
- Records inventory & microfilming project
- Records of the families of California pioneers : gathered by various chapters from original sources in the years 1925- 1926 ; volume II
- Records of the families of California pioneers : gathered by various chapters from original sources in the years 1925-1926
- Register of the Society Sons of the Revolution in the State of California, 1902
- Ship registries and enrollments, port of Eureka, California, 1859-1920
- [South Los Angeles Stake genealogical charts]
- Spirit of patriotism as evidenced by the revolutionary and ancestral records of the Society, Sons of the Revolution, in the state of California
- Unpublished records of the families of California pioneers : Collections of the State Committee of Genealogical Research, Daughters of the American Revolution (California)
- A Volume of memoirs and genealogy of representative citizens of northern California : including biographies of many of those who have passed away
- Family histories
- California Mayflower
- Kinships (California)
- San Francisco historic record and genealogy bulletin
- Somos primos : publication of the Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research (SHHAR)
- Valley genealogist of Hemet-San Jacinto
- Ancestor roster
- Sources for tracing Spanish-American pedigrees in the southwestern United States : California and Arizona
- Sources of Californiana : from padron to voter registration
History
- Address on the history of California, from the discovery of the country to the year 1849 : delivered before the Society of California Pioneers, at their celebration of the tenth anniversary of the admission of the state of California into the union
- The annals of San Francisco : containing a summary of the history of the first discovery, settlement, progress and present condition of California, and a complete history of … its great city ; to which are added, biographical memoirs of some prominent citizens
- The annals of San Francisco : containing a summary of the history of the first discovery, settlement, progress and present condition of California, and a complete history of … its great city ; to which are added, biographical memoirs of some prominent citizens
- Anza’s California expeditions
- The argonauts of California : being the reminiscences of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in early mining days, by a pioneer
- Bench and bar in California : History, anecdotes, reminiscences
- California : an intimate history
- California : Californology. 1965
- California and Californians
- California and Californians
- California life illustrated
- California Mormons, 1846-57
- California och dess svenska befolkning, af Ernst Skarstedt : Med en färglagd karta öfver California, öfver 200 portätt och 100 andra illustrationer. På eget förlag
- California of the south : a history
- The California pilgrim : a series of lectures
- California pioneer register and index, 1542-1848 : including inhabitants of California, 1769-1800, and list of pioneers
- California speaking : a handbook of California history
- California’s old burying grounds
- California, its history and romance
- The Captain Andrew Cathey wagon train : and some genealogy of participating and related families
- Celebration of the 43rd anniversary of the admission of California into the union … held at El Campo, Marin Co., Sept. 9, 1893.
- The Church of Jesus Christ in California during the Gold Rush
- Death valley
- Eldorado : or adventures in the path of empire comprising a voyage to California via Panama ; life in San Francisco and Monterey ; pictures of the gold region and experiences of Mexican travel
- The famous missions of California
- Famous Mormon Way-Bill to the gold fields of California
- Five years within the Golden Gate
- Forty-niners
- The forty-niners : a chronicle of the California trail and El Dorado
- The Gila Trail : the Texas Argonauts and the California gold rush
- A glimpse of El Dorado : the county that made California famous
- Glimpses of California and the missions
- The gold hunters : a first-hand account of life in California mining camps in the early fifties
- The golden state : a history of the region west of the Rocky mountains ; embracing California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Washington territory, British Columbia, and Alaska, from the 1st period to the present time … with a history of Mormonism and the Mormons
- Heroes of California : the story of the founders of the Golden State as narrated by themselves or gleaned from other sources
- Historical and biographical record of southern California : containing a history of southern California from its earliest settlement to the opening year of the twentieth century ; also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present
- Historical atlas of California
- History of Banning and San Gorgonio Pass : in two parts
- History of California
- History of California
- A history of California : the American period
- A history of California : the Spanish period
- A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties : also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present
- A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties : also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present
- A history of California and an extended history of Los Angeles and environs : also containing biographies of well known citizens of the past and present
- History of Marin County (California) : including its geography, geology, topography and climatography, together with a record of the Mexican grants, names, of pioneers, a complete political history and biographical sketches of its early settlers and representative men, also a historical sketch of the state of California, in which is embodied the rising of the bear flag
- History of Nevada County, California : with illustrations descriptive of its scenery, residences, public buildings, fine blocks, and manufactories
- History of political conventions in California : 1849-1892
- A History of the medical profession of southern California
- A history of the new California : its resources and people
- A history of the new California : its resources and people
- History of the North Mexican states and Texas, 1531-1889
- History of the Pacific states of North America
- History of the State of California : from the period of the conquest by Spain, to her occupation by the United States of America. Containing an account of the discovery of the immense gold mines and placers …
- History of the state of California and biographical record of coast counties, California : an historic story of the state’s marvelous growth from its earliest settlement to the present time ; also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present
- History of the state of California and biographical record of coast counties, California : an historical story of the state’s marvelous growth from its earliest settlement to the present time
- History of the state of California and biographical record of Oakland and environs ..
- History of the state of California and biographical record of the Sacramento Valley, California
- History of the state of California and biographical record of the Sacramento Valley, California : an historical story of the state’s marvelous growth from its earliest settlement to the present time : also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present
- History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin Valley, California : an historical story of the state’s marvelous growth from its earliest settlement to the present time, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present
- History of the state of California and biographical records of Santa Cruz, San Benito, Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties..
- An illustrated history of Southern California
- An illustrated history of southern California : embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the peninsula of lower California, from the earliest period of occupancy to the present time, together with glimpses of their prospects, also, full-page portraits of some of their eminent men, and biographical mention of many of their pioneers and of prominent citizens of to-day
- In the heart of the Sierras : the Yo Semite Valley, both historical and descriptive, and scenes by the way ; big tree groves ; the High Sierra, with its magnificent scenery, ancient and modern glaciers, and other objects of interest, with tables of distances and altitudes, maps, etc. : A guide to California’s natural attractions : More than one hundred illustrations
- Index to Patricia Jernigan Keeling’s “Once Upon a Desert”
- Jottings in southern California history
- The king’s highway : El Camino Real y Neustra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles
- A la California : sketches of life in the golden state
- A la California : sketches of life in the golden state
- La Californie. Histoire des progrès de l’un des États-Unis d’Amérique, et des institutions qui font sa prospérité
- Law and Order – The Vigilantes
- Libera Martina Spinazze’s index to the Argonauts of California
- The march of Portolá and the discovery of the Bay of San Francisco
- A Memorial and biographical history of northern California
- A memorial and biographical history of northern California, illustrated : containing a history of this important section of the Pacific coast from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time, together with glimpses of its prospective future; full-page steel portraits of its most eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers and also of prominent citizens of today
- A memorial and biographical history of the coast counties of Central California : containing a history of this important section of the Pacific coast from the earliest period of its discovery to the present time, together with glimpses of its auspicious future; illustrations and full-page portraits of some of its eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers, and prominent citizens of to-day
- A memorial and biographical history of the counties of Merced, Stanislaus, Calaveras, Tuolumne and Mariposa, California..
- My playhouse was a Concord coach : an anthology of newspaper clippings and documents relating to those who made California history during the years 1822-1888
- Narrative to accompany the color filmstrips on the Oregon and California Trails, series 1
- The New York volunteers in California
- Notice industrielle sur la Californie, par m. Ch. Bouchacourt …
- Old California Mining Towns [1948-1954]
- The opening of the California Trail : the story of the Stevens Party from the reminiscences of Moses Schallenberger
- Original Counties of the State of California [ Names of Counties and meanings behind the names.]
- The Pacific historian : a quarterly of western history and ideas
- Panorama : a picture history of Southern California
- Pioneer days in California : historical and personal sketches
- Popular tribunals
- Register of the California Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
- Report of explorations in California for railroad routes, to connect with the routes near the 35th and 32d parallels of north latitude
- Scenes of earlier days in crossing the plains to Oregon and experiences of western life
- The secularization of the California missions, 1810-1846
- Southern California : comprising the counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Ventura..
- Three years in California [1846-1849]
- Who conquered California? : Read the following pages, and then you will know, for they contain the most particular, the most authentic, and the most reliable history of the conquest of California, in June, 1846, by the “Bear Flag Party,” ever before published.
- California pioneer register and index, 1542-1848 : including inhabitants of California, 1769-1800, and list of pioneers
- California, San Francisco, earthquake cards, 1906
- Gone west : Tennessee men in California 1856
- Index to The argonauts of California, [by] Charles Warren Haskins
- Annual publication of the Historical Society of Southern California
- California blue book : an official directory of the judicial, executive, and legislative departments of the government, and county officers
- California Historical Society quarterly
- Historical Society of Southern California
- Publications of the Historical Society of Southern California
- The Quarterly (Historical Society of Southern California)
- The Historical Society of Southern California, topical index of all published works, 1884-1957 : in the annual publications from 1884 through 1934, and the quarterly publications from 1935 through 1957, separately indexed by author, with complete titles to all articles; and containing a complete index of all photographs, charts, maps and other illustrations
- Index to the Journal of San Diego history and San Diego Historical quarterly, volumes 1-20, 1955-1974
- History of California state society, Daughters of the American revolution, 1891-1994
- History of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of California : list of officers and members, proceedings of the first General Court at Los Angeles, March 7, 1896
- Society of Colonial Wars in the state of California, 1915
- The Historical Society of Southern California, topical index of all published works, 1884-1957 : in the annual publications from 1884 through 1934, and the quarterly publications from 1935 through 1957, separately indexed by author, with complete titles to all articles; and containing a complete index of all photographs, charts, maps and other illustrations
- Papers of J. A. Keck
- Ramo de Californias : 1582-1842
California – History – 1840-1870
California – History – 1846-1850
- California and New Mexico : Message from the President of the United States, transmitting information in answer to a resolution of the House of the 31st of December, 1849, on the subject of California and New Mexico
- The gold diggers
- Journals of forty-niners : Salt Lake to Los Angeles with diaries and contemporary records of Sheldon Young, James S. Brown, Jacob Y. Stover, Charles C. Rich, Addison Pratt, Howard Egan, Henry W. Bigler and others
- Mormon gold : the story of California’s Mormon argonauts
California – History – 1850-1950
California – History – 19th century
- California Inter pocula
- The Famous Mormon way-bill to the gold mines of California : an offset reproduction of the famous Way-Bill published in 1851 that directed thousands of gold seekers during the mid-century 1800’s
- Tennesseans in Northern California
California – History – To 1846
- California pastoral, 1769-1848
- California pioneer register and index, 1542-1848 : including inhabitants of California, 1769-1800, and list of pioneers
- The census of 1790 : a demographic history of colonial California
- John Brown of California
- Windows in an old adobe
Government & Politics
- History of political conventions in California : 1849-1892
- La Californie. Histoire des progrès de l’un des États-Unis d’Amérique, et des institutions qui font sa prospérité
- South Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia
Libraries, Museums, & Archives
- Abstracts from “The South Coast” : [San Luis Obespo, California, county official paper, 1879]
- Inventory of the Bixby Collection in the Palos Verdes Library and Art Gallery
- Inventory of the state archives of California, Department of industrial relations, Department of industrial relations, Division of immigration and housing
- Inventory of the state archives of California, Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Immigration and Housing
- List of the letters and manuscripts of musicians in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (University of Californina at Los Angeles)
- Research opportunities : Archives Branch Federal Archives & Records Center, National Archives & Records Service, General Services Administration, San Bruno, CA
- China, imperial examinations and related papers (Han Yu-shan Collection) = 中國, 科舉考試及相關記錄 (韓玉山收藏), 1646-1904
- Imperial examinations, papers, from Han Yu Shan collection at UCLA Library
- General vault index, 1850-1940
- National Archives Microfilm : a guide to the collections at California State University, Fullerton and the Los Angeles Regional Archives Branch
- National Archives microfilm resources in the archives branch : Federal Archives and Records Center, San Bruno, California
- National Archives microfilm resources in the archives branch : Federal Archives and Records Center, San Bruno, California
- Guide to the county archives of California
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 02, Federal Courts, no. 05, California
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 03, Department of the Treasury, no. 05, California
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 05, Department of Justice, no. 05, California
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 08, Department of the Interior, no. 05, California
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 09, Department of Agriculture, no. 05, California
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 10, Department of Commerce, no. 05, California
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 11, Department of Labor, no. 05, California
- Records inventory & microfilming project
Magazines & Periodicals
- Historical Society of Southern California
- Publications of the Historical Society of Southern California
- The Quarterly (Historical Society of Southern California)
Names & Surnames
Newspapers
- California/Nevada historical research, birth records/notices, 1863-1914
- California/Nevada historical research, marriage records/notices, ca. 1847-1910
Public Records
- United States Public Records, 1970-2009, index
- Interior department appointment papers for the state of California, 1849-1907
- Prison register, and descriptive list, 1851-1897
- Register of dentists, 1885-1919
- Index to requisitions and extraditions, 1860-1940
- Index to transcripts and prison papers (dates not given)
Social Life & Customs
Societies
- Addresses delivered before the California Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
- Ancestor roster
- California Masonry : the written law ; Masonic beginnings in California and Hawaii; extinct Masonic lodges of California; constitution; biographies; California Masonry and Stanford University
- Death claim registers, 1880-1979; membership registers, 1880-1964
- Fifty years of masonry in California ..
- History, Department of California, 1908-1938, Auxiliary, United Spanish war veterans
- History, Department of California, 1938-1954, Auxiliary, United Spanish War Veterans
- Register of the California Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
- Register of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of California : a record of descent from passengers on the good ship Mayflower, A.D. 1620, with an appendix
- Spirit of patriotism as evidenced by the revolutionary and ancestral records of the Society, Sons of the Revolution, in the state of California
- Vallejo society of California pioneers
- Addresses delivered before the California Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
- The blue book
- California DAR ancestry guide
- The official roster of the Sons of the Revolution
- The Southern California blue book : a society directory of the Southern Counties of California together with a list of leading clubs of Southern California, San Francisco and Chicago, their officers and social events
- Southwest blue book : original society directory for Southern California listing names, addresses, telephone numbers, names of clubs and their officers
- Yearbook (Huguenot Society of California)
- Yearbook (Southern California Genealogical Society)
California Military Records
- United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index
- United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914, index & images
- United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
- United States Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891, index & images
- United States Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926, index & images
- United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images
- United States Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps, 1798-1937, index & images
- United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938, index & images
- California, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945
- United States Confederate Navy and Marine Service Records, 1861-1865
- United States Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865
- United States Revolutionary War, Virginia Pension Application Files, 1830-1875
- United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Individual Civilians, 1861-1866
- United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Two or More Civilians, 1861-1866
- The king’s log : Third Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment Primary Pilot School, King City, California
- U.S. Army Training Center, Infantry, Fort Ord, California
- By-laws and roster of Theodore Roosevelt Camp No. 9 and Auxiliary No. 5
- History, Department of California, 1908-1938, Auxiliary, United Spanish war veterans
- History, Department of California, 1938-1954, Auxiliary, United Spanish War Veterans
- The register of the Society of Colonial Wars in the state of California
- California military records in the State Archives, 1858-1923
- Early California and Nogales, Arizona lists of expeditionary members, soldiers and residents, 1752, 1775, 1781-1837 : material emphasizes Santa Barbara, Calif.
- Genealogical records of Sherman Lee Pompey
- Hojas de Servicios Militares de América : Nueva España, 1786-1800
- Honorable remembrance : the San Diego master list of the Mormon Battalion
- Military records
- Names of officers and enlisted men from California who lost their lives while serving in the armed forces of the United States during the World War
- The New York volunteers in California
- Records of California men in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1867
- Records of Californians who served in World War I
- Records of the 10th Military Department, 1846-1851
- Roster of retired army officers residing in the Sixth U. S. Army area
- Those who serve : Kern County 1917-1941
- Index cards to overseas military petitions of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, Central Division (Los Angeles), 1943-45, 1954, 1955-56 : NARA RG21 publication M1606
- Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during Indian wars and disturbances, 1815-1858
Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
- United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872, index & images
- United States Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applications, 1800-1900, index links to images
- United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783, index & images
- Year book of the society Sons of the Revolution in the State of California
- Year book of the society Sons of the Revolution in the State of California
Mexican-American War, 1846-1848
- United States Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848, index & images
- United States Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926, index & images
- Compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during the Mexican War in Mormon organizations
- Military petition record of naturalizations (San Francisco, California), 1918 : NARA, RG
- U.S. Army Training Center, Infantry, Fort Ord, California
US Civil War
- United States Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses, 1861-1865, index links to images
- United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865, index
- United States Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861-1934, index links to images
- United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, index links to images
- Records of California men in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1867
- Index to compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the state of California
- 6th Infantry Division Company M, 63rd Infantry Regiment, Fort Ord, California
- 6th Infantry Division, Fort Ord, California
- 6th Infantry Division, Fort Ord, California : civilians, soldiers
- Records of California men in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1867
- Records of California men in the war of the rebellion 1861 to 1867
- Records of California men in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1867
- Records of California men in the war of the rebellion 1861 to 1867
Indian Wars
- United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images
Spanish-American War
- By-laws and roster of Theodore Roosevelt Camp No. 9 and Auxiliary No. 5
- Illustrated roster of California volunteer soldiers in the war with Spain : enlisted under the President’s proclamations of April 23rd and May 25th, 1898
World War I
- United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, index & images
- United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919, index links to images
- California, San Francisco, World War I Enemy Alien Registration Affidavits, 1918, index & images
- California, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, deaths, 1917-1919
- California, World War I Selective Service System draft registration cards, 1917-1918
- Commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army who entered service from the state of Ohio and California and died while members of the American Expeditionary Forces
- War history of Santa Clara County
World War II
- United States, World War II Prisoners of War, 1941-1945, index
- United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946, index
- United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, index & images
- Nevada, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945, index & images
- California, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945, index & images
- United States Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1942-1946, index
- United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images
- California Selective Service System registration cards [World War II] : fourth registration
- California, World War II draft registration cards, 1940-1947
- Those who serve : Kern County 1917-1941
- United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1945-1946
- World War II honor list of dead and missing, state of California
Korean War, 1950-1953
Vietnam War
Veterans, Enlistments, Pensions
- United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940, index links to images
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