Data Collections

California, Voter Registers, 1866-1898	3,682,335
California, Voter Registrations, 1900-1968	595,889
California State Census, 1852	164,511
California Spanish Mission Censuses, 1796-1798	4,720
U.S., Schedules of Special Census of Indians, 1880New	4,623
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California Birth Index, 1905-1995	24,595,581
California, Marriage Index, 1960-1985	9,801,246
California, Death Index, 1940-1997	9,356,993
California, Divorce Index, 1966-1984	5,221,238
Web: California, Find A Grave Index, 1775-2012Free	3,964,164
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California, WWI Soldier Service Cards and Photos, 1917-1918	9,983
California, WWI Soldier Photographs, 1917-1918Free	4,800
California, World War I Soldier Citations, 1918-1921Free	3,341
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California, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1957	4,561,898
San Francisco, California, Surrendered Alien Certificates, 1906-1946	23,004
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There are no Newspapers & Publications collections unique to California.

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There are no Pictures collections unique to California.

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California, Railroad Employment Records, 1862-1937Free	3,253,447
San Francisco, California Directories, 1889-91	252,944
California City Directories	31,666
California State Roster, 1909 Government and Military records	25,712
California State Roster, 1899 Government and Military records	13,527
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There are no Tax, Criminal, Land & Wills collections unique to California.

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Who's Who on the Pacific Coast, 1913Free	3,701
California Cemetery Inscription Sources	3,169
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There are no Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers collections unique to California.

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Harris Newmark, Sixty Years in California	6,813
John Ross Browne, The Debates of the Convention of California	5,416
U.S., Women of the West, 1928Free	4,669
William Francis White, A Picture of Pioneer Times in California	4,279
William H. Davis, Seventy-Five Years in California	3,838
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