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Bakersfield, Kern County, California

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A Memorial and biographical history of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, California containing a history of this important section of the Pacific coast from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time, together with glimpses of its prospective future, with profuse illustrations of its beautiful scenery, full-page portraits of some of its most eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers, and also of prominen
Where rolls the Kern a history of Kern County, California

A Memorial and biographical history of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, California containing a history of this important section of the Pacific coast from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time, together with glimpses of its prospective future, with profuse illustrations of its beautiful scenery, full-page portraits of some of its most eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers, and also of prominen

Where rolls the Kern a history of Kern County, California

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California Digital Newspaper Collection
California Genealogical Society
Online Archive of California
1850 census, San Joaquin County
A Directory of churches and religious organizations in Alameda County, California, 1940
A Guide to church vital statistics records in California
A Guide to church vital statistics records in California San Francisco and Alameda Counties, six denominations
A History of Tuolumne County, California
A Memorial and biographical history of Northern California containing a history of this important section of the Pacific coast from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time together with glimpses of its prospective future, full-page portraits of its most eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers and also of prominent citizens of to-day
A Memorial and biographical history of the coast counties of central California illustrated containing a history of this important section of the Pacific coast from the earliest period of its discovery to the present time, together with glimpses of its auspicious future, illustrations and full-page portraits of some of its eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers, and prominent citizens of to-day
A Memorial and biographical history of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, California containing a history of this important section of the Pacific coast from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time, together with glimpses of its prospective future, with profuse illustrations of its beautiful scenery, full-page portraits of some of its most eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers, and also of prominen
A Sacramento saga fifty years of achievement, Chamber of Commerce leadership
A Scofield survey Daniel Scofield (d. ca. 1669) and Richard Scofield (1613-1670) and their descendants for about six generations Rufus Scofield (1773-1854) and his descendants
A Scofield survey Daniel Scofield (d. ca. 1669) and Richard Scofield (1613-1670) and their descendants for about six generations. Rufus Scofield (1773-1854) and his descendants
A history of the Hunt family from the Norman Conquest, 1066 A.D., to the year 1890 early settlement in America and different states in the Union, settlement in Oregon, mining experience in California in 1849, incidents of pioneer life and adventures among the Indian tribes of the Northwest
A memorial and biographical history of the counties of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura, California illustrated containing a history of this important section of the Pacific Coast from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time, together with glimpses of its prospective future, with profuse illustrations of its beautiful scenery, full-page steel portraits of its most eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its
A record of the ancestry and kindred of the children of Edward Tomkins, Sr., late of Oakland, California (deceased)
An Illustrated history of Los Angeles County, California containing a history of Los Angeles County from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time, together with glimpses of its prospective future
An Illustrated history of San Joaquin County, California containing a history of San Joaquin County from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time, full-page portraits, biographical mention of many of its pioneers
An Illustrated history of southern California embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the peninsula of lower California, from the earliest period of occupancy to the present time
An historical sketch of Los Angeles County, California from the Spanish occupancy, by the founding of the Mission San Gabriel Archangel, September 8, 1771, to July 4, 1876
An illustrated history of Sacramento County, California containing a history of Sacramento County from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time, together with glimpses of its prospective future
An old California pioneer
An outline history of Orange County with an enumeration of the names of its towns, villages, rivers, creeks, lakes, ponds, mountains, hills and other known localities, and their etymologies or historical reasons
Balboa Park, San Diego, California a comprehensive guide to the city's cultural and recreational center
Bean's history and directory of Nevada County, California containing a complete history of the county, with sketches of the various towns and mining camps, the names and occupation of residents also, full statistics of mining and industrial resources
California letters of William Gill
California's El Dorado, yesterday and today
California, its history and romance
Cemetery inscription sic in California counties of Plumas, Alpine, and Sierra
Chart, showing the birth place, age, residence, etc., of the officers of state, Supreme Court, and members of the Legislature of California, for the sixteenth session, 1865-66
City of San Diego and San Diego County the birthplace of California
Clark's Point a narrative of the conquest of California and of the beginning of San Francisco
David Frame's descendants including the descendants of Rev, Reuben Frame and his wife, Margaret Stewart Selby Frame, the oldest sister of Thomas Henry Selby, pioneer of San Francisco, California
Descendants of George Whiteside, b. ca. 1775
Early California wills
Early records, Butte and Tehama Counties, California
El Pueblo Los Angeles before the railroads
Fairfield's pioneer history of Lassen County, California containing everything that can be learned about it from the beginning of the world to the year of our Lord 1870
Fresno County, California
Genealogies of the B. Franklin Adams, Col. Thomas Baker and James Evans and related families of Zanesville, O., Iowa and California their descendants to the present generation a compendium of family pictures, ancient history and vital statistics of nearly 1000 people with photographic pictures and blue prints of 400 people and 25 places
Genealogy and family history of a branch of the New England Upham family settled in California showing the ancestors of Isaac Upham, of San Francisco and others
Genealogy of the Graves family in America. sketch of the family in England genealogy of the family of Thomas Graves of Hatfield, Mass
Greater Los Angeles and Southern California portraits and personal memoranda
Historical and biographical record of Los Angeles and vicinity containing a history of the city from its earliest settlement as a Spanish pueblo to the closing year of the nineteenth century
Historical and biographical record of southern California containing a history of southern California from its earliest settlement to the opening year of the twentieth century
Historical and descriptive sketch of Sonoma County, California
Historical souvenir of El Dorado County, California with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers
History of Alameda County, California
History of Alameda County, California including its geology, topography, soil, and productions together with a full and particular record of the Spanish grants the early history and settlement, compiled from the most authentic sources, the names of original Spanish and American pioneers
History of Butte County, California
History of Contra Costa County, California
History of Fresno County, California with illustrations descriptive of its scenery, farms, residences, public buildings, factories, hotels, business houses, schools, churches, and mines
History of Humboldt County, California with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present
History of Marin County, California including its geography, geology, topography and climatography together with a full and particular record of the Mexican grants, its early history and settlement, compiled from the most authentic sources, names of original Spanish and American pioneers
History of Mendocino County, California comprising its geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber also, extended sketches of its mills and milling, mines and mining interests, together with a full and particular record of the Mexican grants, early history and settlement, compiled from the most authentic sources, names of original Spanish and American pioneers, a full record of its organization, a complete political hist
History of Merced County, California with a biographical review of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present
History of Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties, California cradle of California's history and romance dating from the planting of the cross of Christendom upon the shores of Monterey Bay by Fr. Junipero Serra, and those intrepid adventurers who accompanied him, down to the present day
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California comprising their geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber, also, extended sketches of their milling, mining, pisciculture and wine interests together with a full and particular record of the Mexican grants, early history and settlement, compiled from the most authentic sources, names of original Spanish and American pioneers, a full record of their organization and segrega
History of Riverside County, California with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present
History of San Joaquin County, California with biographical sketches of leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present
History of San Jose, California narrative and biographical
History of San Luis Obispo County, California with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers
History of San Mateo County, California
History of Santa Barbara County, California from its earliest settlement to the present time
History of Santa Clara County, California including its geography, geology, topography, climatography and description together with a record of the Mexican grants, its mines and natural springs, the early history and settlements, compiled from the most authentic sources, the names of original Spanish and American pioneers, full legislative history of the county, separate histories of each township, showing the advance in population and agricu
History of Santa Clara County, California with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present
History of Santa Cruz County, California
History of Solano County comprising an account of its geographical position, the origin of its name, topography, geology, and springs, its organization, township system, early settlement, with descriptions of scenes as viewed by the pioneers, the first American argonauts of California, the bear flag, the discovery of gold, the progress of population and agriculture, the Mexican grants, the principal murders, incidents of settlement, elections,
History of Solano County, California
History of Solano and Napa Counties, California with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the counties, who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present time
History of Sonoma County, California with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county, who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present time
History of Tulare County, California
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the counties who have been identified with their growth and development from the early days to the present
History of Yolo County, California with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county, who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present
History of the city of Santa Barbara, California from its discovery to our own days
Illustrated history of Plumas, Lassen and Sierra Counties with California from 1513 to 1850
Index to the previous three reports on Whiteside(s) names found outside of the United States, ca. 1230-1959 to wit, (1) Whiteside(s) names in Ireland from selected sources, ca. 1625-1959, March 1971, (2) Whiteside(s) names in England, Scotland and other European, African or Asian countries, from selected sources, ca. 1230-1959, March 1971, (3) Whiteside(s) names in Canada, Australia and other countries not considered in the previous two reports
Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities prefaced with a brief history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County, 1542 to 1908 supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative people
Inventory of the county archives of California
Landon genealogy The French and English home and ancestry, with some account of the descendants of James and Mary Vaill Landon in America
Life history of Thomas Orr, Jr. pioneer stories of California and Utah
Los Angeles illustrated showing homes, public buildings, business blocks, parks and general views
Male Whiteside(s) names in the United States from selected sources ca. 1690-1849 and Whiteside place names
Marriage records of San Joaquin County, California August, 1850-December, 1865
Marriage records of Shasta County, California, 1852-1904
Montgomery genealogy
Oakland, 1852-1938 some phases of the social, political and economic history of Oakland, California
Old Monterey California's adobe capital
Old cemeteries of San Joaquin County, California
Our heritage and our hope the history of First Baptist Church of Los Angeles, California, 1874-1974
Past and present of Alameda County, California
Pen pictures from the garden of the world, or, Santa Clara County, California containing a history of the county of Santa Clara from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time, together with glimpses of its prospective future, with profuse illustrations of its beautiful scenery, full-page portraits of some of its most eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers and also of prominent citizens of to-day
Peninsula community book (San Mateo County, California)
Record of Eighty-sixth Company California Military Reserve
Records of California men in the War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1867
Records of a California family journals and letters of Lewis C. Gunn and Elizabeth Le Breton Gunn
Register of officers of the National Guard and Naval Militia of California (April 7, 1917)
Register of the California Society of the Sons of the American Revolution instituted at San Francisco, California, October 22d, 1875 as Sons of Revolutionary Sires
Resources of Monterey County, California including the great Salinas Valley
Richardson-Snedigar genealogy ancestry and descendants of three early Stanislaus County residents (California) Thomas Richardson, Robert Richardson Snedigar, Thomas Fielding Snedigar
Robert Dudley Fullonton and his mother, Mrs. Evelyn Fullonton, artists of Laguna Beach, California a genealogy and brief life story of two artists of distinction, for whom the practical work-a-day world was too much, both lived the art life faithfully and died destitute
Shasta County, California
Shasta County, California a history
So, this is California!
Some small Butte Co., Calif. cemeteries
Stevens-Stephens genealogy and family history some lineage from Anthony Stephens, ca. 1560-ca. 1625 of Wiltshire, England, and Thomas Stephens the haberdasher, ca. 1585-ca. 1650 of London
The Albee family of Berkeley, California, present their lines of descent, 1640-1940
The Argonauts of California being the reminiscences of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in early mining days
The Chapter in your life entitled San Francisco and the California it centers
The Foster family California pioneers first overland trip, 1849, second overland trip, 1852, third overland trip, 1853, fourth trip (via Panama), 1857
The Herald's history of Los Angeles City
The History of Contra Costa County, California
The History of Imperial County, California
The Leavitts of America a compilation of five branches and gleanings from New England to California and Canada
The Negro trail blazers of California a compilation of records from the California Archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley, and from the diaries, old papers, and conversations of old pioneers in the state of California it is a true record of facts, as they pertain to the history of the pioneer and present day Negroes of California
The Wine family in America. chiefly the descendants of Michael Wine (1747-1822), with a preceding chapter of background glimpses, including items relating to Michael's father, Johann George Wine
The Wyckoff family in America the Nicholas line (Wastonville, California branch) a genealogy
The ancestral lines of Truman Dixon Palmer and Emma Calista Barrett with descendants
The annals of San Francisco containing a summary of the history of the first discovery, settlement, progress and present condition of California
The annals of San Francisco containing a summary of the history of the first discovery, settlement, progress and present condition of California, and a complete history of all the important events connected with its great city to which are added, biographical memoirs of some prominent citizens
The centennial year book of Alameda County, California containing a summary of the discovery and settlement of California, a description of the Contra Costa under Spanish, Mexican and American rule, an account of the organization and settlement of Alameda County, with a yearly synopsis of important events, down to the centennial year of American independence, together with the important events of the year 1876 also, a gazetteer of each townsh
The colonial history of the city of San Francisco being a synthetic argument in the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California, for four square leagues of land claimed by that city
The early days of Santa Barbara, California from the first discoveries by Europeans to December, 1846
The history of Colusa County, California and general history of the state
The history of the first pastorate of the Howard Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, California, 1850-1862
The missions of California and the old Southwest
The missions of California their establishment, progress and decay
The pioneer steamer California, 1848-1849
The romantic southland of California
The western shore gazetteer and commercial directory for the state of California containing the names of all the adult male citizens of the state, their occupations and professions, the amount of capital invested, value of property
To Oregon by ox-team in '47 the story of the coming of the Hunt family to the Oregon country and the experiences of G.W. Hunt in the gold diggings of California in 1849
Trinity Church, San Jose, California Advent, 1860, to Easter, 1903
Villains and vigilantes the story of James King of William, and pioneer justice in California
Washington in the 90's California eyes dazzled by the brilliant society of the capitol sic
Where rolls the Kern a history of Kern County, California
Whiteside(s) names in Canada, Australia and other countries not considered in the previous two reports (except the United States) from selected sources ca. 1772-1959
Whiteside(s) names in England, Scotland and other European or African or Asian countries from selected sources ca. 1230-1959
Whiteside(s) names in Ireland from selected sources ca. 1625-1959
Whiteside(s) names listed in California censuses for selected counties, 1850-1880

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