Santa Cruz California Family History Center

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Center Contacts and Hours
Location 
 * Address: 220 Elk St. Santa Cruz CA  (cross street Lance Court)
 * Location on Map

Phone:           (831)  426-1078

Open Hours:
 * Tuesdays: 9 am to 3 pm
 * Wednesdays: 9 am to 9 pm
 * Saturdays: 9 am to 12 noon

Holiday Schedule:   Call and check the preceeding week

Collections

 * Family History Library Catalog:  films and fiche available through the Family History Library Catalog can now be ordered online by clicking on the film number from any online computer.


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This center has access to the Family History Center Portal page which gives free access in the center to premium family history websites that generally charge for subscriptions:

19th Century British Library Newspaper Digital Archive Access Newspaper Archive Alexander Street Press - The American Civil War Research Database: |Letters and Diaries |Images, Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera] Ancestry.com ArkivDigital Online - (Swedish church records) Find My Past  (U.K.)  Fold3.com Previously known as Footnote.com The Genealogist   (U.K.) Godfrey Memorial Library Heritage Quest Online Historic Map Works Library Edition LegacyStories Paper Trail  (19th-century westward American migration documents) World Vital Records

(list as of July 2013)

Hardware and Equipment

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