Pioneer Resident Resources

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4	3	US Census	1850 US Census	Cen50
5	4	Spanish Census California	Spanish Census of California 1775 Compiled by Ron Filion from various sources	SFGen75
6	5	Spanish Census San Jose	First Spanish Census of Pueblo San Jose1777 Compiled by Ron Filion from various sources	SFGen77
7	6	Spanish Census Los Angeles	First Spanish Census of Puebla de la Reina de Los Angeles 1781 Compiled by Ron Filion from various sources	SFGen 81
8	7	Spanish Census San Francisco	Spanish Census of the Presidio of San Francisco 1782 Compiled by Ron Filion Personal Papers of Zoeth Eldrdge at Bancroft Library	SFGen 82
9	8	Spanish Census California	1790 Spanish Padron (Census) of California Cities as copied from the Las Familias de California section in Southern California Historical Society Quarterly volumes 41-43	FS833398
10	9	Mexican Census San Francisco	1842 Mexican Census of San Francisco Compiled by Ron Filion source Towne and Bacon, book and job printers San Francsico 1863	SGGen42
11	10	Mission Santa Barbara	Catholic Church, Mission Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California) 1776-1912, Church records padrones 1815, patentes 1840, procedures 1812-1815, list of missionaries 1796-1821, Accounts of the missions 1784-1831, ecclesiastical council and statistical records 1811-1831 Available at Family Search Center	FS Film 913167
12	11	Mission San Luis Obispo	1833-1835 Mission Padrones	FS Film 913302
13	12	Spanish and Mexican Land Grants	California Land Grants made by Spanish and Mexican Authorities prepared by the staff of the state Lands Commission	Drake 1
14	13	Spanish and Mexican Land Grants	1861 Drake's Compilation of Spanish Landgrants	Drake 2
15	14	Spanish and Mexican Land Grants	Ranchos of California a list of Spanish Concessions 1775-1822 and Mexican Grants 1822-1846 by Robert G Cowan	Cowan 1
16	15	1836 Mexican Census Alphetabetized	Transcribed by Santa Ana College Foundation Press 1976	1836 Mexican Census
17	16	Los Angeles Prefecture Records 1825-1850	Volume A Huntington Library	Los Angeles Prefecture Records
18	17	5 California Presidio Donativos Rosters 1781-1786	1782 Presidio Santa Barbara Roster, 1781 Presidio Monterrey Roster, 1786 Presidio San Diego Roster, 1786 Presidio San Gabriel Roster, 1782 Presidio San Francisco Roster,	5 Presidio Donativos Rosters
19	18	Roster of Portola Expedition 1769 and the Anza Expedition 1776 by Marie E Northrup	List of member of both the Portola and de Anza Expeditions	Portola Anza Expeditions
20	19	Early California and Nogales, Arizona lists of expeditionary members, soldiers and residents, 1752, 1775, 1781-1837 : material emphasizes Santa Barbara, Calif. by Santa Barbara Genealogical Society by Thomas Workman Temple II	Includes Padrones Santa Barbara 1782-1837, de Anza Expedition, Santa Barbara expedition 1781	Santa Barbara Expeditions and Padrones
21	20	Spanish Archives, 1833-1845	Land grant indexes and surveys performed by the Surveyor General	Spanish Land Grant Surveys
22	21	La Sangra Azul de California Lugo by Adam C. Derkum 1941 English	Biographies of selected Early California Spanish Families	Derkum
23	22	The Confirmation of Spanish and Mexican Land Grants in California 1974 by Ivy B. Ross Publisher Robert D. Reed	History of land grant validation in California	Ross
24	23	Los Angeles Baptism Records 1771-1873, Wills 1850-1890, Merced Marriage Records 1855-1905	Los Angeles Wills 1850-1890	FS Film 844433
25	24	Santa Barbara Historical Geographies 1781-1837	Soldiers and Settlers of the Expedition of 1781	TWT
26	25	Early California and Nogales, Arizona lists of expeditionary members, soldiers and residents, 1752, 1775, 1781-1837 : material emphasizes Santa Barbara, Calif. by Santa Barbara Genealogical Society	Indexes and Images at the FamilySearch Library	Santa Barbara
27	26	Sources for Tracing Spanish-American Pedigrees in the Southwestern United States Part II California and Arizona by Thomas Workman Temple II 1969 World Conference on Records and Genealogical Seminar Saly Lake City 5-8 August 1969	List of members of Governor Don Gaspar de Portola's expedition to San Diego 1769 plus the location of records for early California	Sources
28	27	Genealogical Tables of Spanish and Mexican Families of California compiled by Thomas Workman Temple II 1940?	Genealogies of Selected Spanish-Mexican families from 1769-1850 resident in California	Thomas Workman Temple
29	28	Genealogical Tables of Spanish and Mexican Families of California: includess some research done by Thomas Workman Temple II in 1905	Northrop, Duarte, Valenzuela, Yorba, Lopez, Serradell, and Bermudez Family genealogies	Aranda and Temple
30	29	Grants of Land in California Made by Spamish or Mexican Authorities by chris Perez	Prepared by the Sate lands Commission	Spanish Land Grants
31	30	Native Daughters of the Golden West Pioneer Index	Crowd Sourced index of Pioneers who enterd California before 1870	Golden West
32	31	San Francisco: Pre-Statehood Records 1838-1851 San Francisco	Mainly Land and Property records Viewable at a FamilySearch Center	Pre-statehood
33	32	The Argonauts of California being the Reminiscences of Scenes and Incidents that Occurred in California in early Mining days by a Pioneer C. W. Haskins Fords, Howard and Hulbert 1890	Autobiography and accounts of early mining in California People and ships which arrived in California 1949	Argonauts
34	33	Expedientes, California Board of Land Commissioners, Record Group 49: Records of the General Land Office	List of Mexican Land Grant holders no dates	Exp
35	34	Sonoma County grantee deed index 1835-1861	Register of land transactions in Sonoma County by grantee 1835-1861	Son Grantee
36	35	Sonoma County grantor deed index 1830-1861	Register of land transactions in Sonoma County by grantor 1830-1861	Son Grantor
37	36	California Private Land Claim Dockets 1852-1858	Confirmtion of Mexican Land calims by the California Land Commission part of Ancerty.com card catelogue $	Cal land claims
38	37	California Spanish Land Records 1784-1868	Land grant records the US acquired after taking possession of California in 1848 Part of Ancestry.co card catalogue $	Spanish Land Grants
39	38	California Spanish Land Records 1784-1868	Land grant records the US acquired after taking possession of California in 1848 Part of Ancestry.co card catalogue $	Spanish Land Grants
40	39	US Marine Corps Muster Rolls 1798-1958	Marine Corps muster rolls 1798-1958 including California	Muster
41	40	San Francisco: Maritme Heritage Passengers on Ships arriving in San Francsisco 1846-1899	Provides a list of ships, dates of arrival and passengers onboard	SF Ship Passengers
42	41	Listology Website	1849 Passenger lists from two New England Gold Mining Companies	Listology
43	42	Placer Shasta and Yuba County: Wills 1849-1900; Placer and Shasta Counties Vital Statistics	Probate records Placer, Shasta, and Yuba counties Vital Records Placer and Shasta Counties	PLACW
44	43	Placer County Probate Court Files 1850-1920	Includes surname index	PLACC
45	44	Placer, Santa Clara, Solano, Shasta, Trinity, and Los Angeles Counties Wills and Abstracts	Includes index	Wills
46	45	US Mexican War Index and Service Records 1846-1848	Name index to the compiled military service records (M616) for the Mexican War and compiled service records for the states of Mississippi, (M863), Pennsylvania (M1028), Tennessee (M638), Texas (M278) and Mormon Battalion (Iowa) (M351). The records are a part of RG 94 Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780s-1917.	MexAm
47	46	A Database of the Mormon Battalion: an Identification of the Original Members of the Mormon Battalion/ Compiled and Edited by Carl V. Larson	List of members of the Morman Battalion	Morman
48	47	Seventy-five Years in California; a Historyof Events and Life in California by William Heath Davis	William Heath Davis (1822-1909) was the son of a Boston ship captain engaged in the Hawaiian trade and a Polynesian mother. He visited California twice on trading voyages before setting up business there in 1838. In 1845 he settled permanently in San Francisco, becoming one of the city's leading merchants. His marriage to María de Jesus Estudillo tied him to the Hispanic community in his adopted region. Seventy-five years in California (1929) is an expansion of Sixty years in California, a book Davis published in 1889. It is a history of California as well as the author's memoirs of his life through the mid 1850s with an emphasis on the transformation of Yerba Buena to San Francisco, the Gold Rush, and the impostion of US power in California	Davis
49	48	1796- 1798 Spanish Prsesidio Mission and Puebloe Census	Includes San Diego, Santa Barabara, Monetrey, and San Francisco Presidios, the missions of Soledad, San Carlos, San Luis Obispo, and the Pueblos Villa of Branciforte and San Jose	Span
50	49	California Pioneer and Immigrant File 1790-1950	Ten Thousnads records of immigrants to California supplied by the immigrant or a descendant. Inlcudes biographical information	Imm
51	50	Vital records from cemeteries	Burials Throughout California	DAR BUR
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