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• California Census Records
• California Counties
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  • San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records
    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.
• California Directories
  • 1861 Placer County, California Directory
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• California History
  • California Goldrush Most Wanted
    This web site is dedicated to the CA-GOLDRUSH mailing list subscribers. It represents our Most Wanted (most elusive, brick wall) ancestors lost in California during the time of the Goldrush 1840s-1880s. The Webmaster of this page does not guarantee the accuracy of the data in the submitter's queries. The conclusions of the authors are not necessarily those of the webmaster. The right to edit is reserved and in the interest of saving space, mailing headers will be deleted.
  • How to Research Mining Claims
    This special article is published to help our readers conduct research into mining claims for themselves.
  • The Adventures of a Forty-niner
    An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days, By Daniel Knower. Daniel went to California in 1849 during the start of the gold-rush days. This manuscript provides sketches on events and ideas that he saw, as well as detailing his trek to the gold rush town of Coloma.
  • Old Mission Stories of California
    Of the last six stories comprising the seven in this little collection of Stories of the Old Missions, all but one have, as a basis, some modicum, larger or smaller, of historical fact, the tale of Juana alone being wholly fanciful, although with an historical background. The first story of the series may be considered as introductory to the mission tales proper. In these quiet, unpretending stories the writer has attempted to give a faithful picture of life among the Indians and Spaniards in Nueva California during the early days of the past century.
  • Death Valley In '49
    Autobiography Of A Pioneer, Detailing His Life From A Humble Home In The Green Mountains To The Gold Mines Of California; And Particularly Reciting The Sufferings Of The Band Of Men, Women And Children Who Gave "Death Valley" Its Name.
  • The Forty-Niners
    A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado, by Stewart Edward White.
  • La Baja California
    Very soon after the conquest of Mexico the attention of Cortez was attracted by certain stories told by some of the conquered tribes regarding a mysterious but wonderful country, lying far to the northwestward. This land they called Ciguatan, or The Realm of Women; and they declared that it abounded in gold, in pearls, rubies, garnets, turquoises, and many other products, rich and precious.
  • Missions of California and the Old Southwest
    In musing over the history of the old Missions, the mind is led to inquire as to the benefits that have been conferred upon mankind by the labors, triumphs and defeat of the padres during their brief sojourn in the Southwest. Through their work was confined to a few heathen tribes, its pure and unselfish purpose and beneficent results cannot be questioned, for these are attested in the annals of those days.
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• California Native American Records
  • California Federally Non-Recognized Tribes
  • California Indian Reservations
  • California Land Patents ~ Digger and Mission
  • California Tribal Address
  • Indians of California - Digger
  • Indians of Upper California
  • Northwestern Fights and Fighters - Modoc Indians
• California Vital Records
  • Western States Historical Marriage Records Index
    Over the past decade, the BYU-Idaho (formerly known as Ricks College) Family History Center 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 Idaho, Nevada and Utah counties have been extracted into the 1930's and some, much later. A significant number of marriages from Wyoming, eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, western Colorado and selected counties in California are also included. For more details, see "List of Counties by State".
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Cemetery Records
California Cemetery Inscription Sources
Oakhill Cemetery Inscriptions, Oakhurst, California

Census - 1850 Federal Census
Los Angeles City and County Census, 1850

Census - Other Federal Census
California Census, 1790-1890
Monterey, California Census, 1850-60

Church Records
Albert Williams, San Francisco, California Pastorate, 1849-54
Isaac Mylar, San Juan Bautista Mission, California, 1860s
James Woods, Church Work in California, 1850-60

Directories
Shasta County, California Register, 1898

Directories - City Directories
Los Angeles, California City Directories, 1888-90
Nevada County, California Directory, 1895
Ojai Valley, California Directory, 1938
Pomona, California Directory, 1896-97
San Francisco, California Directories, 1889-91
San Luis Obispo - Paso Robles Area, California City Directory, 1961
Santa Barbara Area, California City Directory, 1972
Santa Cruz Area, California City Directory, 1926
Santa Maria and Lompoc Areas, California City Directory, 1963
Santa Rosa Area, California City Directory, 1938
Santa Rosa, California City Directory, 1968
Santa Rosa, California City Directory, 1970
Shafter and Wasco, California City Directory, 1969
Stockton and Lodi, California City Directory, 1952
Stockton, California City Directory, 1958
Stockton, California City Directory, 1967
Vallejo and Fairfield, California City Directory, 1930-1931
Yuba, Sutter, Colusa, Butte, and Tehama Counties, California Directory, 1885

Ethnic - Native American
Benjamin D. Wilson, Report on California Indians, 1852
Charles Painter, Report on the Indian Territory and California
Henry Schoolcraft, Thirty Years with Indians

History
Albert S. Evans, Life in California
Alexandre Dumas, Trip to California
Bayard Taylor, California Correspondence, 1850
Benjamin F. Taylor, Trip to San Francisco, 1870s
California and Californians, Vol. 1
California and Californians, Vol. 2
California and Californians, Vol. 3
California and Californians, Vol. 4
California Narratives: A Year of American Travel
California Narratives: California for Health, Pleasure and Residence
California Narratives: Early Voyages to California
California Narratives: Phoenixiana, or Sketches and Burlesques
California Narratives: Recollections of a Long and Somewhat Uneventful Life
California Narratives: Summer Saunterings
California Narratives: The Adventures of a Forty-Niner
California Narratives: The Expedition of the Donner Party
California Narratives: Fourth Thousand, Life on the Plains
California Narratives: Glimpses of Hungryland
California Narratives: Los Angeles in the Sunny Seventies
California Narratives: Men and Memories of San Francisco
California Pioneers, 1542-1848
California State Roster, 1911 Government and Military records
Carl Meyer, Life in California
Charles Beebe Turrill , Notes
Charles Dowsett, California Land Sales Agent, 1891
Charles Holder, Life in California, early 1900s
Charles Murdock, California Printing and Politics, 1855-1910
Charles Stoddard, Footsteps of the Padres, 1856
Charles Stoddard, Vacation Beyond the Rockies
Charles Warner, Southern California, 1890
Clifford Allen, Rail Trip to California, early 1900s
Colonel L.A. Norton, Life and Adventures
Constance Gordon-Cumming, Five Months in California
D.B. Bates, Trip from Massachusetts to California, 1850
Daniel Woods, Sixteen Months in California, 1849-50
David A. Shaw, California As Seen by a Pioneer
David Leeper, Life in California, 1849-54
David Phillips, Life in California, 1876
Don Janssens, Life and Adventures
Dow Stephens, Jayhawker in California, 1849
Dr. William McCollum, Trips to California, 1849-50
Edward D. Holton, Rail Trip to California, 1879
Edward G. Buffum, Three Years in California, 1847-49
Edward McGowan, Life in California, 1856
Edward McIlhany, Recollections of a '49er, 1908
Edward S. Parkinson, California Summer, 1892
Elisha Crosby, California Memoirs
Eliza and James Gregson, Life in California, 1840s
Eliza Burhans Franham, How We Farm, Mine, and Live Generally in the Golden State
Emma Adams, Trips to California, 1880s
Enos Christman, Life in California, 1849-52
Ernest de Massey, Life in California's Gold Rush
Evelyn Hertslet, Ranch Life in California, 1885
Felix Wierzbicki, California Guidebook, 1849
Frank Leach, Early California Newspaperman
Frank Marryat, California Mountains and Molehills, 1855
Franklin Buck, Yankee Trader in the Gold Rush
Franz Lecouvreur, From East Prussia to the Golden Gate
Frederick Gay, Sketches of California, 1848
Frederick Rindge, Life in California, Late 1800s
Fremont Older, My Own Story
Friedrich W. C. Gerstacker, Travels in America
George W. Bryan, Recollections of a California Pioneer
George Weeks, California Newspaperman
Hariet Harper, Six Months in California, 1888
Harris Newmark, Sixty Years in California
Harvey Rice, Letters from California, 1870
Heinrich Lienhard, Life at Sutter's Fort, 1840s
Helen H. Jackson, Glimpses of California and the Missions
Henry Brewer, Surveying California, 1860-64
Henry Ellis, Trip from Maine to California, 1849
Henry Huntley, California Gold, 1856
Henry Schoolcraft, An Expedition, 1832
Henry Vizetelly, Four Months in the California Gold Fields
Herman Scharmann, Journey to California
Hinton Helper, Life in California, 1850s
Hiram Dwight Pierce, A Forty-Niner Speaks
Horace Bell, More Reminiscences, 1860s
Hubert Howe Bancroft, Literary Industries: A Memoir
Hugo Reid, Indians of Los Angeles County
J. W. Linkins, California Book Agent, 1868-74
J.G. Player-Frowd, Six Months in California, 1870s
Jackson Graves, Seventy Years in California
Jacob Barzilla, Camping Out in California
Jacob Harlan, Wagon Trip to California, 1846
James Brown, Finding Gold at Sutter's Mill, 1848
James Carson, California Mining Life, 1848-52
James Hamilton, Life in California
James J. Ayers, Journalist, 1849-90
James Steele, Sketch of California History, 1889
James Tyson, California Physician, 1849
Jessie Benton Fremont, Far-West Sketches
John Bidwell, Life in California
John Bidwell, Living in California, 1841-89
John Borthwick, Three Years in California, 1851-54
John Brown, Reminiscences of San Francisco, 1886
John Letts, Life in California
John Muir in the Sierras
John Palmer, San Francisco Medicine, 1849
John Ross Browne, Crusoe's Island
John Ross Browne, The Debates of the Convention of California
John Swan, Life in California, 1848
John Todd, The Sunset Land or The Great Pacific Slope
Joseph Heco, From Japan to California, 1850, Part 2
Joseph Heco, Life in California
Joseph Le Conte, Travels through the High Sierra
Joseph W. Hines, Pacific Coast Pioneer
Kimball Webster, Seeking Gold in California, 1849-54
Lee Whipple-Haslam, Life in California
Lell Woolley, Sixty-four Years in California
Leonard Kip, Gold Mine Sketches
Lewis and Elizabeth Stickney, Records of a California Family
Lilian Cross, Life in California
Lloyd Briggs, Trips to California
Luther Schaeffer, Sketches of California, 1860
Luzena Wilson, Life in California
Mary Carroll, Ten Years in San Jose, 1892-1903
Mary Cone, Two Years in California, 1873-75
Mary Vail, Southern California Settlement, 1888
Mary Wills, Winter in California, 1888
Michael White, Life in Mexican California, early 1800s
Mina Deane Halsey, A Tenderfoot in Southern California
Miriam Squier, Trip to San Francisco, 1877
Oscar Fitzgerald, 20 Years in California
Oscar Fitzgerald, 20 Years in California, 2nd Edition
Peter Burnett, Life in California
Prentice Mulford, Life in California
Pringle Shaw, California Mining, 1857
Richard Dana, Two Years in California, 1834-36
Robert Louis Stevenson, Silverado, California, 1880s
Samuel H. Willey, Thirty Years in California
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Roughing It
Samuel McNeil, Trip to California, 1849
Samuel Upham, Voyage to California, 1848
Santa Barbara Travel Guide, late 1800s
Sarah Smith, Raised On a California Sheep Ranch, 1870s
Semi-Tropical California, Its Climate, Healthfulness, Productiveness and Scenery
Solomon Mead, Notes of Two Trips to California and Return
Stephen Davis, Gold Rush Merchant, 1850-54
Stephen Field, Practicing Law in California, 1850
Sue Sanders, Journey to San Francisco, 1886
Susie Clark, From Boston to California, 1890
Sylvester Cochrane, Vermontville Colony
Thaddeus Kenderdine, California Travels, 1858-59
Thaddeus Kenderdine, Return to California, 1898
Theodore Johnson, Life in California, 1849
Thomas Chard, California Sketches, 1888
Travel Guide to Southern California, 1893
Walter Colton, Three Years in California, 1846-49
Walter Fisher, Life in California, 1870s
William Chambliss, San Francisco Society, 1895
William Folsom, Fifty Years in the Northwest
William Francis White, A Picture of Pioneer Times in California
William H. Davis, Seventy-Five Years in California
William Hutton, Glances at California, 1847-53
William Kelly, Excursion to California, Vol. 1, 1849
William Kelly, Excursion to California, Vol. 2, 1849-50
William Kip, Early Days of My Episcopate
William Manley, Life in Death Valley, California, 1849
William Pond, California Congregationalism, 1833-1920
William Ryan, Adventures in California, Vol. 1
William Ryan, Adventures in California, Vol. 2
William Shaw, Trip from Australia to California, 1849
William Sherman, Recollections of California, 1846-61
William Taylor, Life in California, 1849-55
William Taylor, Preaching in California, 1849-56
Yuba County, California History, 1850-1900

Immigrant Records
Friedrich Gerstacker, A German Perspective
San Francisco Chinese Exclusion List

Letters and Correspondence
Alonzo Delano, California Correspondence, 1849-52
Bayard Taylor, California Correspondence, 1849
Benjamin Avery, California Poetry and Prose, 1878
CalGideon Lee Knapp, Extracts from Letters and Journals of Gideon Lee Knapp
Caroline Churchill, California Travel Letters, 1870-73
Caroline Churchill, California Travel Letters, 1874-80
Chauncey Canfield, Diary of a Forty-niner
Horace Bell, Reminiscences, 1850s
Johann Sutter, Diary
Judge Benjamin Hayes, California Diary
Loraine Pratt Immen, California Travel Letters, 1896
Louise Clappe, Letters from California, 1851-52
Lucius Fairchild, California Letters, 1849-55

Miscellaneous
California State Roster, 1899 Government and Military records

Newspaper Records
Arcadia Tribune (Arcadia, California)
Colusa, California Newspaper Records, 1876-84
Fresno Republican, The (Fresno, California)
Fresno Weekly Republican (Fresno, California)
Hayward Review (Hayward, California)
Long Beach Independent (Long Beach, California)
Modesto Evening News (Modesto, California)
Modesto News (Modesto, California)
Montclair Tribune (Montclair, California)
Mountain Democrat, The (Placerville, California)
Oxnard Courier (Oxnard, California)
Oxnard Daily Courier (Oxnard, California)
Oxnard Press Courier (Oxnard, California)
Progress Bulletin (Pomona, California)
Sacramento California, <I>Sacramento Bee</I> newspaper 1892: Vital Records
Sacramento California, Sacramento Bee newspaper 1859, Obituaries, Marriages, Births
Sacramento California, Sacramento Bee Newspaper 1891: vital records
Sacramento [California] Bee Newspaper 1889 : Vital Records
San Mateo Times (San Mateo, California)
Valley News (Van Nuys, California)
Van Nuys News (Van Nuys, California)
Weekly Mountain Democrat (Placerville, California)
Woodland Daily Democrat (Woodland, California)

Newspaper - Obituaries
San Diego Union-Tribune (California) Obituaries, 1993-94

Surnames - Biographies
Charles Peters, Autobiography, 1915
Fresno, Tulare, and Kern Counties, California Biographical History

Vitals - Birth Records
California Birth Index, 1905-10

Vitals - Death Records
California Death Index, 1940-1997
Merced County, California Deaths, 1852-1999

Vitals - Marriage Records
California Marriages, 1844-1850
California Marriages, 1850-1960
Shasta County, California Marriages, 1852-1904
 

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