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California History Section of the State Library. Rm. 200, 900 N Street, 2nd Floor, Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 654-0176, Web: www.library.ca.gov/html/genealogy.html 9:30-4 Weekdays Has death indexes from 1905 - 1995, marriage records from 1949-1986, census information, telephone books, city directories, California history books and newspaper articles. Sacramento History Online: A joint project of four Sacramento County institutions to digitize and catalog over 2000 items from their collections. The project's goal has been to document agriculture and transportation in the Sacramento region from the mid 19th to early 20th century. Partners for this project are the California State Library's California History Room, the California State Railroad Museum Library, the Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center, and the Sacramento Public Library's Sacramento Room. Sutro Library 480 Winston Drive, San Francisco, CA 94132. Ph:(415) 731-4477, Web: www.records.org/sutro.html, www.onelibrary.com/Library/calslsut.htm The largest genealogy collection west of Salt Lake CIty, has a variety of materials from all over the country, including birth, death, marriage, probate and military records; city directories and other information. Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley On campus near Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave., Berkeley (510) 642-6481, Web www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ Houses rare books and manuscripts, is known for its collection of California History, and has hundreds of letters and diaries form Californians. The Oakland History Room at the Oakland Library 2nd Floor, 125 14th St., Oakland (510) 238-3222, Web www.oaklandlibrary.org/Sections/ohr.htm Has many resources for local genealogy, including: Oakland city directories from 1869-1943, Alameda County voting registries from 1867-1944, California county histories and Oakland birth and death certificates from 1870-1904. I also has extensive personal name indexes. General Land Office / Bureau of Land Management Land Patent Records California Pioneer Project   California Pioneer List (CPL)   Native Daughters of the Golden West California Pioneer Project
Other Web Pages Holdings of California University Libraries (MELVYL) Sutro is CSL California GenWeb Project County Pages: Alameda, Lake, Napa, Placer, Sacramento, Orange, Solano, Sonoma, San Joaquin, Yolo Solano Co. Genealogical Society Lake County Museums 255 North Main Street Lakeport, CA 95453 (707) 263-4555 "Thomas Family Saga", April 1977, Lake Sun Newspaper	Books Pioneers of California : True Stories of Early Settlers in the Golden State Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Lake County History Books. Books by State at Everton Publishers Napa Co. Genealogical and Biographical Society 1701 Menlo Avenue Napa, California 94558 (corner of Menlo and California) Phone: 707 252-2252
"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 History of Transportation & Communications to California Brief California History Return to Califorina Settlers.