Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library

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Contact Information
E-mail: E-mail a Librarian

Address:


 * Local History and Genealogy Annex
 * 211 E Street
 * Santa Rosa, CA 95404

Telephone: 707-545-0831 ext. 562

Hours: Wednesday through Saturday: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm

Map

Internet sites and databases:


 * Sonoma County Library Internet site branches, events, programs, services, resources.
 * Sonoma County Library catalog online by keyword, author, title, subject, or series.
 * Sonoma County Local History Index search by keyword, subject (places, names, events, etc.), title, or author.
 * Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library page photos, maps, workshops, county records, obituaries 1974-now, newspapers 1857-now, federal censuses and their indexes, city directories.

Collection Description
The genealogical collection includes national and international reference materials and periodicals such as.


 * Ancestry.com available on computers at all branches. Ancestry includes records from all the United States census, also military, court, land, probate, vital, church, directories, passenger lists and more.
 * Heritage Quest Online: US Census records 1790-1930, 22,000 books and family histories, PERSI Index, Revolutionary War, and Freedman Bank records. Database is available from a home computer with a library card.

Sonoma County and California sources


 * Sonoma County History Index of names, places, and events in thousands of local history books.
 * Sonoma County newspapers (Press Democrat): microfilm, 1857 to 1969
 * Sonoma County city directories 1874 – 1969
 * Photo collection of 35,000 Sonoma County images from 1800’s to 2000; over half already digitized and online.
 * California city directories 1874 – 1969

Sonoma County Genealogical Society publications


 * 1890 Census of Sonoma County
 * Sonoma County Cemetery Records 1846-1921
 * Sonoma County Death Records 1873-1905
 * Index to 1890 Great Register of Voters
 * Early Sonoma County Land Grants
 * Naturalization Records in Sonoma County 1841-1930
 * Vital Data in Sonoma County Newspapers

Guides
Sonoma County History &amp; Genealogy Library brochure (.pdf)

Alternate Repositories
If you cannot visit or find a record at the , a similar record may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections


 * Sonoma County Main and Branch Libraries, parent system of the History and Genealogy Annex.

Similar Collections


 * Lake County Library, local history (Mauldin notes), newspapers 1863-now, vital records index 1863-1949.

Neighboring Collections


 * Marin County Free Library, San Rafael, California Room, oral history, images, maps.
 * Napa City-County Library, HeritageQuestOnline, ProQuest, Biography and Genealogy Master Index.
 * Mendocino County Library, newspapers, computers, genealogy reference room (Ft. Bragg).
 * California State Archives, probates, deeds, naturalizations, National Guard, prisons, veteran home registers.
 * California State Library, California Information File, censuses, county histories, vital records, DAR, newspapers.
 * California Historical Society, Online Archive of California, 50,000 books, 4000 manuscripts, 500,000 images.
 * California Genealogical Society and Library, databases, census, vital, military, naturalizations, newspapers.
 * United States District Court Northern District of California, federal court records.
 * Sonoma County Hall of Justice, birth, marriage, death, and other court records.
 * National Archives Pacific Region (San Francisco), San Bruno, federal censuses 1790–1930; selected military service indexes, pension indexes, passenger lists, and naturalizations, African American and Native American records.
 * Sutro Library, San Francisco, best genealogical collection in California, family and local history, indexes.
 * Bancroft Library, Berkeley, western Americana and migration, maps, newspapers, photographs.
 * University of California Libraries, libraries on 10 UC campuses.
 * Sonoma State University Library, newspapers, ethnic collections, oral histories, genealogical Internet links.