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• LDS Family History Catalog Search  (do a place search by state or county or town etc. to see what has been filmed)
  

• American Local History Network: California
  
  
• California at Rootsweb
  
  
• California Biographies
  
  
• California County Biographies
  
  
• California Databases at Rootsweb
  
  
• California Genweb Project
  
  
• California Pioneer Project
  
  
• Genealogy Resources in California
  
  
• NORCAL Genealogy Index
  
  
• San Francisco Genealogy
  
  

Research Guides

• Family Search Resource Guide: California
  
  

Archives & Libraries

• California Digital Archives (Rootsweb)
  
  
• California State Archives
  
  
• California State Library
  
  

Census Resources

• Census Online: California
  
  
• U.S. GenWeb Census Search
  
  

Geographic Resources

• California Maps: Perry Castaneda Library
  
  
• Digital Map Collection (U.C. Berkeley)
  
  
• Historical Topographical Maps of California
  
  
• Panoramic Maps of California 
  
  
• Rootsweb Town Search
  
  

History Resources

• California Heritage Collection
  
  
• California Missions Virtual Tour
  
  
• California Railway History
  
  
• Gold Rush! California's Untold Stories
  
  
• Sacramento Museum Guide
  
  
• San Francisco Earth Quake
  
  
• San Fernando Valley Digital History
  
  
• San Francisco History
  
  

Immigration Resources

• Angel Island: California "Immigration Station
  
  
• Maritime Heritage Project: Immigrants to California
  
  

Land Records

• BLM Land Patent Search
  
  
• Spanish and Mexican Land Grant Maps 1855-1875
  
  

Military  Records

• California Forts
  
  
• California in the Civil War
  
  
• California Military Museum
  
  
• Civil War Rosters: California
  
  

Newspapers

• California Newspaper Project   (database to historical newspapers - do a town search - click the display results button and it will show you every paper ever printed there. Most can be gotten on film through your local library through interlibrary loan.
  
  
  
• Kidon Newspaper Links: California
  
  
  

Vital Records

• California Vital Records Information
  
  
• California Marriage Index
  
  
• California Death Index
  
  
• California Obituaries
  
  
• California Obituary Links
  
  
• Southern California Obituary Resource Project
  
  
• Cemetery Junction: California
  
  
• Cemeteries of California  
  
  
• CemSearch: California
  
  
• Find-a-Grave
  
• Online California Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries
  

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