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|HON. E. P. COLGAN, Sonoma Co.|
|GEORGE W. COULTER, Mariposa Co.|
|JOHN F. McSWAIN, Merced Co.|
Link: Who's Who In California - 1929 by Detwiler (Internet Archive)
Index to
California Pioneers in the Works of Hubert Bancroft (SFgenealogy.com)
Births - Deaths
New Link: California Birth Index 1905-1995 (Donated by SFgenealogy.com)
New Link: California Death Index 1940-1997 (Donated by SFgenealogy.com)
Cemeteries
Churches
St. John's Catholic Church Business Directory, King City,
Monterey Co. - 1915
Directory of New Monterey Baptist Church, Monterey -
1920's
Cry of the West - The Mighty Struggle for Religious
Freedom in California (Transcribed by Jeanne Taylor - Thanks!)
Community Methodist Church History, Ione, Amador Co., California 1852-1945 (Transcribed by Jeanne Taylor - Thanks!)
Directories
1856 Miner's & Business Men's Directory -
Tuolumne, Calaveras & San Joaquin Counties (Text)
1880-81 McKenney's Pacific Coast Directory - All
California Counties (Business Directory - Images)
1888 Farley's List of California's Attorneys
1896-97 Milliken's City Directory of Pomona, Los Angeles
Co. (Images - Business & Residential Directory)
1898 California Telephone Directory (Images)
1908-09 California's Attorneys & Banker's Directory (by
Jeanne Taylor - Thanks!)
1914
Richmond City Directory (Contra Costa County) (Images at
Internet Archive)
1916 Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley, Contra Costa, Marin,
San Mateo, & Palo Alto Telephone Directory
1931 Counties: Sacramento, Amador, Butte, El Dorado,
Nevada, Placer, Solano, Sutter, Yolo
& Yuba Telephone
Directory* (Images)
1938 Calaveras, San Joaquin, Stanislaus & Tuolumne Counties Telephone Directory (Images)
1939 Calaveras, San Joaquin, Stanislaus & Tuolumne Counties Telephone Directory (Images)
1940 Counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin,
San Mateo, Santa Clara & Sonoma Telephone
Directory* (Images)
1941 Counties: Sacramento, Amador, Butte, El
Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sutter, Yolo,
& Yuba and
part of Sierra and Solano Telephone Directory* (Images)
1942 Counties: Calaveras, San Joaquin, Stanislaus
& Tuolumne Co's Telephone Directory. (Images)
1944 Counties: Sacramento, Amador, Butte, El Dorado,
Nevada, Placer, Sutter, Yolo,
&
Yuba and part of Sierra and Solano Telephone Directory* (Images)
1945 Counties: Calaveras, San Joaquin, Stanislaus
& Tuolumne Co's Telephone Directory. (Images)
1946 Counties: Sacramento, Amador, Butte, El Dorado,
Nevada, Placer, Sutter, Yolo,
&
Yuba and part of Sierra and Solano Telephone Directory* (Images)
1947-48 Glenn County Directory (Images)
1951 Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, Menlo Park &
Stanford University Telephone Directory (Images)
San Mateo County Directories
Educational Institutions
University of California Directory of Graduates 1864 -
1905 (Published by UC Berkeley 1905)
CR High Seventh Intermediate School, Palo Alto, Cal. 1924 ("Robert
Winborn 7a" written on back.)
St. Helena Union High School Yearbook 1924, St. Helena, Napa County (Donated by Suzanne Hoyt)
St. Helena Union High School Yearbook 1925, St. Helena, Napa County (Donated by Suzanne Hoyt)
St. Helena Union High School Yearbook 1926, St. Helena, Napa County (Donated by Suzanne Hoyt)
St. Helena Union High School Yearbook 1927, St. Helena, Napa County (Donated by Suzanne Hoyt)
Shasta Union High School Commencement Program 1942, Redding, Shasta County (Donated by EdrieAnne Broughton)
Directory of California Superintendents of Schools 1946 (All
Counties)
Directory of Supervisors & Directors Of Instruction In California Elementary Schools 1947 (All
Counties by Betty Vickroy - Thanks!)
Gold Rush!
Argonauts Of California - Pioneer Assns. & 1849
Passenger Lists (by C. W. Haskins 1890)
LINK: Fassett Gold-Rush
Letters Collection (Transcribed
by Roger P. Kohin - Thanks!)
Government
Nevada County Deed - 1868 (Names
Listed: Roberts, Sims, McGuire & Willitt)
Link: 1872 Great Register of Voters (Jim
Faulkinbury, CG. Research Services)
Central Pacific Railroad Accident Report for 1877
Central Pacific Railroad Accident Report for 1878
Notaries Public (1886-1909 Elected Office--all
counties)
California
Men in the War of the Rebellion 1861-67 (California Genealogy & History Archives -
Thanks!)
California State Asylum, Stockton, Napa, Agnews,
Mendocino & Oakland 1891 - Employes (California Blue Book)
Calaveras County Voting Register Index 1938 (Transcribed by Jeanne Sturgis Taylor -
Thanks!)
Hotel Guests
Hotel El Paso De Robles, San Luis Obispo Co. 1899
Hotel Rafael, San Rafael, Cal. 1899
Military
California Men in the War of the Rebellion 1861-67 (California Genealogy & History Archives
- Thanks!)
California National Guard Report 1891-92 (PDF file - Militia, Officers & Retirement lists)
Spanish American War Veterans Posts, California 1940 (Transcribed by Jeanne Sturgis Taylor - Thanks!)
Spanish American War Veterans Vallejo, California 1942 (Photo
& Roster)
LINK: Spanish
American War Veterans Buried in California
Newspapers
Pardons & Commutations - 1871 (Donated
by Betty Loose - Thanks!)
National Guard of California - 1871 (Donated
by Betty Loose - Thanks!)
Marriage Records On The Pacific Coast-1872 (From
the Overland Monthly - Including States: NV., OR., MT. & WA.)
Death Records On The Pacific Coast-1872 (From
the Overland Monthly - Including States: NV., OR., MT. & WA.)
Organizations
LINK: NDGW - INDEX
TO THE ROSTER OF CALIFORNIA PIONEERS
I.O.O.F., Independence Lodge No. 158, Calaveras County -
1882
Knights of Pythias Madera Lodge - 1898
Alameda Social Register - 1899 (by Elaine
Sturdevant - Thanks!)
Berkeley Social Register - 1899 (by Elaine
Sturdevant - Thanks!)
Los Angeles Social Register - 1899 (by
Sally Kaleta - Thanks!)
Oakland Social Register - 1899 (by Sally
Kaleta - Thanks!)
San Jose Social Register - 1899 (by Sally
Kaleta - Thanks!)
Santa Cruz Social Register - 1899 (by
Sally Kaleta - Thanks!)
Yeoman Shield US Death Claims - 1919 (Transcribed
by Jeanne Taylor - Thanks!)
Who's Who Among The Women of California - 1922 (Images
- 60,000 names)
Who's Who Among The Women of California -
1922 (Text - 60,000 names)
1921-22 The New Society Blue
Book (Donated by SFgenealogy.com) (Transcribed by Betty Vickroy - Thanks!)
Native Sons of the Golden West - Deaths (1885-1940
Some years missing.)
State Agricultural Society (Organizers of
the State Fair)
1925 San Francisco Blue Book - Los Altos Register (by
Sally & Polly Ann Kaleta - Thanks!)
1925 San Francisco Blue Book - Stanford - Palo Alto Register (by Sally & Polly Ann Kaleta - Thanks!)
1925 San Francisco Blue Book - Ross Register (by Sally & Polly Ann Kaleta - Thanks!)
1925 San Francisco Blue Book - San Jose Register (by Sally & Polly Ann Kaleta - Thanks!)
1925 San Francisco Blue Book - Mill Valley Register (by Sally & Polly Ann Kaleta - Thanks!)
1925 San Francisco Blue Book - Sausalito & San Anselmo Registers (by Sally & Polly Ann Kaleta - Thanks!)
1925 San Francisco Blue Book - Belvedere Register (by Sally & Polly Ann Kaleta - Thanks!)
1925 San Francisco Blue Book - San Rafael Register (by Sally & Polly Ann Kaleta - Thanks!)
1928 Directory of the California Medical Association (Transcribed
by Jeanne Sturgis Taylor - Thanks!)
1934-35 Roster - American Legion California Posts (Transcribed
by Jeanne Sturgis Taylor - Thanks!)
San Mateo County Social Registers
Books
Pen Portraits (Autobiographics
of State Lawmakers & Professional Men - 1878)
One Hundred Years At Silver Lake, Amador County 1848-1948 (Swenson Family & Vern Dander - Thanks!)
A Tramp Through The Bret Harte Country
Plumas-Sierra History (Transcribed by
Jeanne Taylor - Thanks!)
Photo Album & Maps
Brian Voorheis' Photo Collection (Donated by Brian Voorheis - Thanks!)
Map of San Francisco Bay Area 1895 (Santa
Clara Co Resources San Jose Mercury 1895)
Prominent Citizens of Santa Clara County (Santa
Clara Co Resources San Jose Mercury 1895)
Map of California 1899 (California Blue Book 1899)
The Jannsen Family - Erik Peterson's Uncle and Family in
Finland (2 sons & 3 daughters & husbands)
Tulare County Partial Landowners Map ca.1920's Part
1 Part 2 Part 3
Postcards: Santa Barbara 1925 Earthquake & Scenic Views of Catalina Island (Donated by John Manolis - Thank You!)
California Map 1936 Part 1 Part 2
Territorial Development of the United States Map
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