California Digital Newspaper Collection over 150,000 digitized pages of California newspapers spanning the years 1849-1911. They include the Alta California (1849-1889); the San Francisco Call (1900-1910); the Amador Ledger (1900-1911); the Imperial Valley Press (1901-1911); and the Los Angeles Herald (1905-1907)
Find Obituaries at GenealogyBank.com search for obituaries in over 12 million newspaper pages
Newspaper Obituaries On The Web - California a directory of over 6 million newspaper obituaries
Obituaries - California database of archived newspaper obits, by US GenWeb
San Francisco; The San Francisco Call Database  newspaper entries, B, D & M's 1869-1889
Southern California Obituary Resource Project
United States Obituary Collection - California a database of thousands of obituaries in dozens of this state's newspapers
USGenWeb Archives Obituary Project - California a database of obituaries posted by visitors to this site

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