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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)
NewsDirectory.com - Newspapers: California search millions of articles in thousands of newspapers by topic or keyword
Find Obituaries at NewspaperArchive.com over 2.5 billion names from 750 cities spanning 240 years
Newspaper Obituaries On The Web - California a directory of over 6 million newspaper obituaries
NewspaperAbstracts.com a site devoted to publishing online extracts from US newspapers prior to 1923 submitted by researchers
New York City to California passenger lists published in the New York Daily Times-searchable index of names
Obituaries - Californiadatabase of archived newspaper obits, by US GenWeb
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

 

 

Additional Resources at Ancestry.com

California Cemetery Inscription Sources
California Censuses, 1790-1890
California Pioneers, 1542-1848
California State Databases over 300 databases for California here, including military rosters, censuses, marriage and birth records