Genealogy Links

Tools for finding immigration records, census records, vital records, and for dealing with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, and numerous other applications. Some of these tools fetch data from other websites but do so in more versatile ways than using the search tools provided on the original sites.

Posted on Rootsweb, this article originally appeared in "Land Records" by Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, FUGA, in "The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy."

Includes indexes of Placer County newspaper, vital records, voter registrations, cemetery records, biographies, oral histories, military records.

Old City Cemetery is wonderful place to visit. It is a 30.44 acre outdoor park/museum containing historical gravesites and statues, beautiful landscaping, roads, and walking paths. Resources include a burial list, and an interactive map to search for people buried at the cemetery.

This link is a filter that selects for all the books in the Genealogy Collection at Sacramento Public Library. Many genealogy books may be borrowed with a Sacramento Public Library card, but others may only be used in person at the owning branch.

This database with images is hosted on FamilySearch. 3,907 tract books containing official records of the land status and transactions involving surveyed public lands arranged by state and then by township and range. These books indicate who obtained the land, and include a physical description of the tract and where the land is located. The type of transaction is also recorded such as cash entry, credit entry, homesteads, patents (deeds) granted by the Federal Government, and other conveyances of title such as Indian allotments, internal improvement grants (to states), military bounty land warrants, private land claims, railroad grants, school grants, and swamp grants. Additional items of information included in the tract books are as follows: number of acres, date of sale, purchase price, land office, entry number, final Certificate of Purchase number, and notes on relinquishments and conversions.

Vita Brevis is designed to offer the reader short essays by our expert staff on their own research and experiences with doing family history, as well as news of the greater genealogical community. We also have several long-time member authors—professional and amateur genealogists alike—who contribute to the blog. We will include posts on research methods and results that are applicable to a variety of genealogical subjects, as well as stories of serendipitous events connected to the joy we all get from genealogy. The tone here is less formal, sometimes humorous, and always interesting. Like a mosaic, these posts will, in time, form a new collection for the genealogical researcher to explore and enjoy.