California Genealogical and other Websites
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Alameda County
- Alameda County, California Mailing Lists
- East Bay Genealogy Society — Alameda County, California Genealogy
- East Bay Genealogical Society
- Superior Court of California
- Audidtor–Controller Agency–County Clerk –Recorder
- Index of cenfiles–ca–alameda–1870
- Pleasanton Weekly
- Cemeteries of Alameda County, California – Cemetery Records – Genealogy – Geneology
- Alameda County, California Genealogy Toolkit: Research Resources
- Genealogy Data Records for Eastern Alameda County, California
- California State Library
- Guide To Sources For Genealogy In The California History Room
- Web Sites at RootsWeb – Alameda CA
- Oakland Public Library — On–line catalog
- Oakland High School Class Index
- Mountain View Cemetery — My father, grandparents, and many relations are interred in the Mausoleum
- Evergreen Cemetery
- Evergreen Cemetery
- Alameda County Cemeteries
- Oakland City Directory for 1921
- Alameda County Biographies — Transcribed from History of Alameda County, California…, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883 as well as the applicable ones for Alameda County from Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
- Cemetery Transcriptions — This is an ftp site but can be browsed with IE.
- Alameda County Newspapers
- Census 1860
- Census 1870
- Marriages
- Alameda County Histories
- Oakland Regional Family History Center — library catalog for bunch of FHCs
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Livermore
- Livermore–Amador Genealogical Society Home Page
- Livermore Public Library
- The Livermore Heritage Guild
- Asbury United Methodist Church — Founded 1867
- Livermore Class Picture Archive — temporary url
- Livermore Class Picture Archive — permanent url
- Livermore High School
- Livermore High School Alumni Registry
- Church Links
- First Presbyterian Church — We lived a block from here and this is the church where I was first confirmed at the age of 12. It didn’t look like the picture on this page when I was there.
- eLivermore dot Com — Community and history guide.
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Naturalization
- NARA Pacific Region, San Bruno, CA
- Institute of Business and Economic Research
- Case Files for Early Immigrants to San Francisco and Hawaii
- Guide to finding U. S. Naturalization Records
- Alameda County Index
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Volunteers
- Genealogy Helplist California
- Northern California Library — Genealogy Lookup Volunteers
- Random Acts of Genealogy Kindness for California
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Obituaries
- Cemetery Junction Newspapers & Links for California – Page 1
- SoCal Obituaries
- SoCal Obituaries — Death Indicies
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Los Angeles
- Welcome to the City of Los Angeles
- LOS ANGELES MUNICIPAL COURT
- Los Angeles Superior Court and the Administratively Unified Courts – Homepage
- Los Angeles County Home Page
- Los Angeles County Records
- Southern California Genealogical Society
- Obituaries in Los Angeles County
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San Francisco
- Obituaries and Death Notices from San Jose Mercury or San Francisco Chronicle. Also info on other Bay Area BMD sources.
- San Francisco Public Library Genealogy
- San Francisco Genealogy — Part of the USGenWeb and CAGenWeb Projects
- History Smith — Doing Research on San Francisco
- San Francisco’s Lost Landmarks
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Professional Researchers
- San Francisco Bay Area Genealogy Research Service
- Genealogy Genie
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BMD Indices
- Pre–1905 CA Death Index Project
- Pre 1940 death index
- Post 1939 death index
- A tiny number of marriage index entries
- The Foreign–Born Voters of California in 1872
- The San Francisco Call Database — BMD information for San Francisco prior to 1906 earthquake and fire that destroyed all official records.
- Jim W. Faulkinbury is a Certified Genealogical Record Specialist residing in Sacramento, California. He has been a professional genealogist since 1979. He has been certified as a C.G.R.S. since 1980.
- The San Francisco Call Database — Newer edition but offline 17 May 2005.
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- Golden Nugget Library
- Northern California Genealogy Index
- California USGenWeb Project Page
- California Genealogy Forum
- San Francisco Bay Area Genealogical Consortium
- California Genealogical Society — Located in Oakland
- GenConnect – California Index
- GenForum California Counties
- The Clan MacLeod – Pacific Region
- California Secretary of State – California State Archives
- California Vital Records Information – birth or death certificate, divorce records, marriage license, etc
- The Maritime Heritage Project Gold Rush Ships, Passengers, Captains
- California Pioneers Project
- Ancestry.com – State Resources for California
- California Genealogy Index
- DMV Message Forwarding Service — INF 1211B [budget cuts ended this service October 31, 2003]
- CALIFORNIA State Information: Archives, Education, Families, Genealogy, Government, History, Libraries
- California Obituary Links
- Center for Health Statistics — Office of Vital Records
- Contra Costa County — The Research portion of the Contra Costa County Historical Society site has indexes of newspaper obituaries and probates for the county, both roughly covering the period 1855-1920.
- Lists of People Going to California 1848–1873 — Taken from newspapers covering groups traveling by wagon and ship.
- The California Information File
- Cemetaries
- Research Tool Kit
- Berkeley Public Library History Room
- Berkeley History Online
- Berkeley History Online Digital Images
- Online Archive of California
- California Histories and Databases
- California Images
- California Genealogy & History Archives
- Email/Chat Room Genealogy Group
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If you have a lot of lookups to do, try getting an interlibrary loan of the microfilmed newspapers through your local library. Your library will arrange to have the microfilm sent to them and you can then use a microfilm reader at your library.
California Genealogical Society
2201 Broadway, Suite LL2
Oakland, CA 94612-3017
Historical Society & Museum
22701 Main Street
Hayward, CA 94541
The Livermore public library will do obituary lookups for five dollars each. Send the name, date of death, and a SASE to:
Livermore Public Library
1188 South Livermore Avenue
Livermore, California 94550
The Santa Barbara County library will do obituary lookups for two dollars each. Send the name, date of death, and a SASE to:
Santa Barbara Central Library
Newspaper Room
40 East Anapamu Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
The San Luis Obispo City-County Library will do obituary lookups for Ten dollars each. Send the name, date of death, and a SASE to:
San Luis Obispo City-County Library
Ref. Dept.
P.O. Box 8107
San Luis Obispo, CA 93403
The San Francisco Main Library has many old San Francisco newspapers on
microfilm. You can write to them to request a lookup at no charge. They
will check up to 6 days after the death date. You MUST provide the
following:
* Exact date of death
* Self–addressed, stamped envelope There is a limit of three lookup requests at one time for California residents and one per month for non residents.
San Francisco Public Library Obituary Request Policy
Send request to:
San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch
5th Floor Newspaper Center
Larkin & Grove Streets
San Francisco, CA 94102
The Oakland Public Library will do an obit lookup for $2 and a SASE:
www.OaklandLibrary.org
Oakland Public Main Library
Newspaper Room
125 14th St.
Oakland, Ca 94612
(510) 238–3176
Autopsy Reports
Alameda County Sheriff’s Office
Coroner’s Bureau
480–4th Street
Oakland, CA 94607–3829
Attn: Records
Phone (510) 268 7300
Fax (510) 268-7333
When last checked, the cost was $5.00 for the report, but you should check to be sure.
The Los Angeles County library does NOT do obituary lookups. You will have to find the Los Angeles Times microfilm at your local library or by interlibrary loan.
History and Genealogy Department
Los Angeles Public Library
630 W. 5th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90071
The Orange County library does NOT do obiturary lookups.
The Orange County California Genealogical Society (OCCGS) does searches for a fee.
© Copyright 2000–2007 Stephen Daniel McLeod