Profiles of California pioneers
Records of the Governance of Southern California
Early Settlers of Old Los Altos/Mountain View ( a project of the Los Altos Chapter of the DAR 2020-2021)
Guide to the The Society of California Pioneers Collection of Autobiographies and Reminiscences of Early Pioneers (cdlib.org) (153 autobiographies and reminiscences of those who migrated west prior to 1850)
“Who’s Who among the Women of California…” (contains biographies of California Pioneer women, searchable, published in 1922)
California pioneer register and index, 1542-1848 : including Inhabitants of California, 1769-1800, and list of pioneers : Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918) (More than 1,700 searchable names of men living in California 1769-1800 with some biographical information and Pioneer index)
History of Yolo County California with Biographical Sketches Volume I by Tom Gregory 1913 (Leading men and women of the County identified with its growth and development from early days to the present including Eligible California Pioneers)
History of Solano and Napa Counties California with Biographical Sketches by Tom Gregory 1912 (Leading men and women of the County identified with its growth and development from early days to the present including Eligible California Pioneers)
History of Sonoma County California with Biographical Sketches by Tom Gregory 1911 (Leading men and women of the County identified with its growth and development from early days to the present including Eligible California Pioneers)
Records of the Families of California Pioneers Gathered by the Various Chapters of the California Daughters of the American Revolution from Original Sources in the Years 1925-1926 Volume II (Includes generational pedigrees of early California pioneers and families including Eligible California Pioneers )
Historical and Biographical Record of Southern California by J. M. Guinn, A.M. 1902 (Contains biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present, some of whom are eligible California Pioneers, and a history of Southern California from its earliest settlement to the opening year of the twentieth century)
Earthquake Pioneers
1906 Earthquake Eyewitness Accounts (sfmuseum.org) (32 digital eyewitness accounts, sorted alphabetically by the author-witness surname, from The Museum of the City of San Francisco collection “Eyewitnesses to the Earthquake and Fire”)
The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (Biographies, narratives, maps and photographs from the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)
One Hundred Years Ago : Two Days in San Francisco—1906 (Winter/Spring 2005, Volume 51, Numbers 1 & 2, The Journal of San Diego History, SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY)
Crocker-Langley 1906 San Francisco directory Volume 1 - 3 (Contains an alphabetical list of businesses and citizens. It includes officers, churches, schools, associations, banks and institutions.)
Gold Rush Pioneers
1850 and 1860 Census Links ( Links to 1850 and 1860 California Gold Rush Counties)
Missions Pioneers
Missions of California (the California Missions Resource Center)
California Missions Pioneers (The Early California Population Project (ECPP) database. Includes the historic mission registers—which contains records of baptisms, marriages and burials— on the Native Americans, soldiers and settlers of Alta California. Huntington Library. (The Early California Population Project: A Database Compiled and Developed at the Huntington Library. General Editor, Steven W. Hackel, Lead Compiler, Anne M. Reid. (The Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 2006.)))
The Parochial Books of the California Missions, Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly September 1961 (www.familysearch.org/library/books)
Pioneer's Residence
Ramo de Californias 1582-1842 ( The "Californias" document series in the National Archive of Mexico comprises historical materials from the vice-regal period of Mexican history that deal with both Lower and Upper California. The documents are not arranged in chronological order and are often separated by wide intervals of time. Many of the vols. include an index. Films 1857189-1857200,1857215-1857224,1857277-1857293,1909390)
Spanish Archives 1833-1845 Films 978888-978901
Wagons East Across the Sierra, Allen Fifield, Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly September 1961
