Internet Links
This page offers connections to other genealogical and historical organizations available on the Internet. The links below are presented solely for the information and convenience of our members and their listing here does not constitute either a review or an endorsement by Los Californianos. Just click on the blue link to access the website. Please notify us at Webmaster link to: (Loscalifornianosmembers@gmail.com) if a link is no longer operative or if you have suggestions for links to add.
California History – Special Collections
Autry Museum of Western Heritage
California Digital Newspaper Collection (UC, Riverside Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research)
California State Military Museum
Land Patents
Lewis Geddes Notebooks
Monterey County Local History Directory
Ventura County Museum of History and Art
General Genealogical Sites
California Genealogical Society
California Genealogical Society and Library
Cyndi Howells’ List of Genealogical Sites
Family History Books [choose: “Find Other Materials”/”Electronic”/”On Line Collections at BYU”/”Text Collections”/and, finally, “Family History Archive”]
Family Search (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints [Mormon] site)
[A] Genealogist’s Guide to Tracing People from Our Past [guide to beginning research]
San Francisco County Genealogy
Sephardic Names
Sephardic Studies
Society of California Pioneers
Southern California Genealogical Society
USGenWeb
Vitalchek
WorldGenWeb
Hispanic Family Web Sites
Hispanic Genealogy and History
Boosters of Old Town [San Diego] (for Descendants of Early San Diego click on Descendants)
Descendants of Early San Diego
Early California Population Project (search engine of all the Mission records in Alta California)
Familia
FamilySearch – Mexico
Genealogical Society of Hispanic America – Southern California
Genealogy of Mexico
Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico
Real Academia Española California Digital Newspaper Collection (UC, Riverside Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research)
San Diego Old Town Descendants
Somos Primos (SHHAR’s journal)
Spanish Colonial Documents
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Historic Preservation and Heritage Sites
Anza National Historic Trail Guide – National Park Service
Anza Trail
California Preservation Foundation
California State Military Museum
California State Parks: Spanish and Mexican Heritage Sites
Dominguez Ranch
Juana Briones Heritage Foundation
Olivas Adobe Historical Park
Peralta Hacienda Historical Park
Pio Pico State Historic Park
San Pasqual Battlefield Site Location Project
Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation
Tumacacori National Historic Park
Libraries and Archives
Bancroft Library
California State Library
Claremont Libraries Special Collections
Family History Library (Salt Lake City)
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
New Mexico Records Center and Archives
Online Archive of California
Rootsweb (links to NORCAL and SOCAL under Mailing Lists)
Real Academia Española
Santa Barbara Mission Archive Library
Seaver Center for Western History Research (Los Angeles County)
Southern California Genealogical Society Library Catalogue
Tools
Converting Arabic and Roman Numerals
County and Regional Abbreviations
Dictionary (OneLook searches over 900)
Diccionario de la Real Academia Española (en español)
Find-A-Grave
Finding a U.S. County’s State
Finding a U.S. Town’s County
Google Genealogy Searcher
MAPofUS.org – California (shows changes to California’s counties borders over time)
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (University of Texas)