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Welcome to the Genealogy Trails website for the state of California.
Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. Feel free to search our state and county data or consider contributing to help free genealogy grow!

Website updated with new data

02/01/2010 12:54:06 -0800

Your State host is Brenda W. State Host


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Now  is a great time for cleaning out the garage or storage to give life back to old articles, obituaries, newspapers, or anything else of interest that may be collecting dust. California Trails is always happy to accept submissions of obituaries, birth notices, articles of interest, biographies, etc.
 Sharing your family's information is a great way to make free genealogy grow. Have free time? A great way to spend a Saturday is to go to one of your historic or old cemeteries in your area. Transcribing the tombstones and photographing them is a great way to preserve history. You can also help by picking up trash and cutting back brush away from stones. Many of California's graves are disappearing and are forgotten. You can make a difference. To stay safe, here is an article about safety while cemetery hunting. Happy Hunting!
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To allow more focus on transcribing and adding data to the site, we will not have separate pages just devoted to updates. You can join the mailing list by going here.
The mailing list is a great way to stay updated on what's being added to the pacific coast states on Genealogy Trails.

We are currently adding data to each county this month.
Thanks to all the folks that contributed data this year!




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Alameda CountyAlpine CountyAmador County
Butte CountyCalaveras CountyColusa County
Contra Costa CountyDel Norte CountyEldorado County
Fresno CountyGlenn CountyHumboldt County
Imperial CountyInyo CountyKern County
Kings CountyKlamath CountyLake County
Lassen CountyLos Angeles CountyMadera County
Marin CountyMariposa CountyMendocino County
Merced CountyModoc CountyMono County
Monterey CountyNapa CountyNevada County
Orange CountyPlacer CountyPlumas County
Riverside CountySacramento CountySan Benito County
San Bernadino CountySan Diego CountySan Francisco County
San Joaquin CountySan Luis Obispo CountySan Mateo County
Santa Barbara CountySanta Clara CountySanta Cruz County
Shasta CountySierra CountySiskiyou County
Solano CountySonoma CountyStanislaus County
Sutter CountyTehama CountyTrinity County
Tulare CountyTuolumne CountyVentura County
Yolo CountyYuba CountyCounty Map
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CALIFORNIA GENEALOGY TRAILS

California is a state spanning the southern half of the United States west coast.

The area was inhabited by Native Americans before European explorers started to make sporadic visitations during the 16th Century.
Starting in 1769 Spain colonized the coastal areas of the territory, before it temporarily became part of Mexico after the Mexican War of Independence (1810-21).
The California Republic, was an independent state which was short-lived, during 1846, and was effectively ended by the Mexican-American War. 
At the outset of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), the state was captured by 500 American soldiers and sailors.
Following the war, the area was bought by the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
The California Gold Rush of 1848-49 brought about 90,000 additional American immigrants into the state.
California became the 31st state of the United States in 1850.

California borders the Pacific Ocean, Oregon, Arizona, Nevada, and Mexico.
You are welcome to browse the information on these pages and at the many links provided to garner the data needed to continue your research into your family history. However, Please remember that this information, in many cases, represents years of painstaking research on the part of myself, or the many generous volunteers who have donated their information to this site. You can show your respect for these efforts by not taking things to use on other websites and/or to claim as your own. I thank you in advance for your consideration.


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        Original page set up by B. Wiesner, 2009.