Golden Nugget Library's
California Statewide Databases

Churches

1894 Baptist Church Directories of Oakland, Cal.
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!)
Directory of Methodist Women's Society, San Leandro, Alameda County - 1952
Directory of Methodist Women's Society, San Leandro, Alameda County - 1953

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)  
 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.)
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 (calarchives4u.com - Thanks!)
California State Asylum, Stockton, Napa, Agnews, Mendocino & Oakland 1891 - Employes (California Blue Book)

Hotel Guests

Hotel El Paso De Robles, San Luis Obispo Co. 1899
Hotel Rafael, San Rafael, Cal. 1899

Military

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)
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!)
San Mateo County Social Registers

Books

Pen Portraits  (Autobiographics of State Lawmakers & Professional Men - 1878)
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
California Map 1936  Part 1  Part 2
Territorial Development of the United States Map

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