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California Marriage Project. This project endeavors to provide actual transcriptions of Marriage Applications, and other Marriage Records, as found recorded in county court houses and state archives.

US Surveyor General for Calfiornia - Spanish and Mexican Land Grant Maps 1855–1875.

Settlers of California 1769-1800. A list of names of over 1,700 of the earliest recorded male settlers of Alta California.

Early California Population Project. The Early California Population Project provides public access to all the information contained in California's historic mission registers.

San Gabriel Mission Matrimonial Investigation Records 1788-1861 (California). Notarized interviews with couples requesting marriage in the Roman Catholic Church. The purpose of marriage investigations was to prove that the parties were free to marry. They establish many facts concerning the individuals married at the Mission and provide much genealogical detail for descendants.

Names of the Forty-niners. Source: "The Argonauts Of California" by C. W. Haskins, 1890. Members of the various California Pioneer Associations in the U. S. who were living at the time of publication.

A list of those who came to California via Rancho Santa Ana del Chino, California from 1849-1856

Field, Staff And Band, First Regiment of California United States Volunteer Infantry, Spanish War

Records of California men in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1867. Digitized edition of this book by Brig.-Gen. Richard H. Orton published in 1890.

Record of Marriages on the Pacific Coast (mostly Apr & May 1872). From the Overland Monthly and Out West magazine.

Overland Monthly & Out West Magazine 1872 Record of Marriages. Including States: CA, NV, OR, MT, & WA.

Overland Monthly And Out West Magazine 1872 Record of Deaths. Including States: CA, NV, OR, MT, & WA

California Slavery Era Insurance Registry. A database of slave and slaveholder names.

California Family Group Sheets

Los Angeles Times Obituary Search Page 1988-2004. In addition to the standard obituaries and death notices, the index includes entries for In Memoriam, Cards of Thanks, Funeral Notices, etc.

Southern California Yearbooks - The Students of Southern California : Names (and a few of the photographs) found in thousands of pages of old high school and college yearbooks.

List of Members of the Society of California Pioneers, with the dates of their arrival in California and their present residences [1851] (archived Web page - not always available).

Notaries Public From California Blue Books & Governmental Rosters 1886-1909 (Images Online)

California Obituaries from Arkansas Newspapers

Legal Correspondents of Wilber Mercantile Agency in California, 1917

61,691 Foreign-Born Voters of California in 1872

California Bound 1848 - 1873. Ship Passenger Lists, Wagon Train Lists, Isthmus of Panama Passenger Information.

Alcatraz Inmate Roster 1934 - 1963. 1576 names.

Bibliography Index Extracted from California och dess Svenska Befolkning. The names and brief background information on 335 Swedes and Swede-Finns who were living in California between 1900 and 1910. A free online edition of this book is available: California och dess svenska befolkning

Passenger List of the Brother Jonathan On her final voyage just before sinking (pdf document). During a summer storm in 1865, the Brother Jonathan struck an uncharted rock trying to make safe harbor at Crescent City, California. The ship had left San Francisco and was heading north. Of the 244 people on board, only 19 survived.

Western States Marriage Records Index : Over the past decade, the BYU-Idaho 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 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.

Arizonians who died in California 2001-2002. A list of people who were born in Arizona and died in the state of California (archived Web page - not always available).

Hispanic Surnames traceable to Mexico or the American Southwest : A-F, G-M, N-Z

California Executions 1778-1967 (archived Web page - not always available).

California Lynchings 1875-1947 (archived Web page - not always available).

Alpine County

1870 Federal Census Alpine County, California

Alpine County, California 1880 Census, Enumeration District 32

Alpine County, California 1930 Federal Census

Alpine County, California - Index to Federal Land Records. Deeds (primarily patents) issued by the United States in Alpine County between 1856 and 1995.

Alpine County, California Great Register of Voters, 1873

Civilian draft registration cards completed in 1917-1918 for Alpine County, California

Amador County

Amador County, California Cemeteries

Amador County California - Index to Federal Land Records. Extracted from the California Land Patents Database of the Bureau of Land Management.

Amador County, California WW2 Enlistees, Names : A-L, M-Z

Butte County

Butte County, California Cemeteries

Butte County, California - Index to Federal Land Records. Extracted from the California Land Patents Database of the Bureau of Land Management.

Butte County, California Marriage Records 1944-1945

Butte County, California Biographies

Calaveras County

Calaveras County, California Index to Federal Land Records. Extracted from the California Land Patents Database of the Bureau of Land Management.

Calaveras County, California Cemeteries

Misc. San Andreas, Calaveras County, California Births

Calaveras County, California Marriages (partial)