California Colonial Records: Difference between revisions

==Online Records==

*[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1097/ '''1796-1798'''- California Spanish Mission Censuses]. $ Index and images at Ancestry.com.

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|1771-1908

|Baptisms, marriages, confirmations, burials, and official reports

|Spanish

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|San Gabriel Mission (1771-1864) and Plaza Church, Los Angeles (1826-1873)

|Baptismal records of San Gabriel Mission (1771-1864) and Plaza Church, Los Angeles (1826-1873)

|Spanish and English

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|1770-1899

|Extracts of church records

|English

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|1771-1966

|Baptism, confirmation, marriages, deaths

|Spanish, English, Latin

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|1828-1839

|Baptisms and marriages

|English transcriptions

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|1774-1868

|Baptisms, marriages, and burials

|Spanish

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|1771-1882

|Baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials, confirmations, church records, inventory of patents, and deed and land patents.

|Spanish and English

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|1783-1847

|Baptisms and marriages

|Spanish

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|1806-1917

|Baptisms, marriages, and burials

|English

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|1771-1873

|Baptisms

|English

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|1776-1912

|Baptisms, marriages, burials, church records, church statistics

|Spanish and English

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|1769-1822

|Baptisms

|English transcriptions

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|1826-1920

|Baptisms, marriages, burials

|Spanish

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|1817-1907

|Baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and burials

|Spanish and Latin

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|1777-1954

|Baptisms, marriages, burials, and confirmations

|Spanish, Latin, English

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|1811-1828

|Church censuses, Biographical sketches of clergy (1820), and baptisms

|Spanish

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|1772-1906

|Baptisms 1772-1869, Marriages 1772-1902, Deaths and burials 1772-1838, Confirmations 1778-1906, Church records (padrones) 1833-1835, Grants, patents and inventory 1806-1840 (includes list of martyrs of all California missions), and Church records (padrones) 1797-1798

====== California Missions ======

*"The Parochial Books of the California Missions." Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly 43 by J.N. Bowman. (September 1961): n.p.n. [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/55725-the-quarterly-historical-society-of-southern-california-v-43-no-3-sep-1961?offset=1 FamilySearch Digital Book]

*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bkeywords%3AHistorical%20%2Bkeywords%3ASociety%20%2Bkeywords%3Aof%20%2Bkeywords%3ASouthern%20%2Bkeywords%3ACalifornia%20%2Bkeywords%3AQuarterly&offset=120 ''The Missions and Missionaries of California''] 2 Vols. by Zephyrin Engelhardt. (Santa Barbara, CA: Mission Santa Barbara, 1929-30).

*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bkeywords%3AHistorical%20%2Bkeywords%3ASociety%20%2Bkeywords%3Aof%20%2Bkeywords%3ASouthern%20%2Bkeywords%3ACalifornia%20%2Bkeywords%3AQuarterly&offset=120 ''The Missions of California and the Old Southwest''] by Jesse S. Hildrup. (1912. Reprint. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1995.) This contains early history of missions, churches, and Native Americans.

*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bkeywords%3AHistorical%20%2Bkeywords%3ASociety%20%2Bkeywords%3Aof%20%2Bkeywords%3ASouthern%20%2Bkeywords%3ACalifornia%20%2Bkeywords%3AQuarterly&offset=120 ''California Ranchos: Patented Private Land Grants Listed by County''] by Burgess McK. Shumway. (San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 1988). This lists name of rancho and grantees with date and description of the land.

*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bkeywords%3AHistorical%20%2Bkeywords%3ASociety%20%2Bkeywords%3Aof%20%2Bkeywords%3ASouthern%20%2Bkeywords%3ACalifornia%20%2Bkeywords%3AQuarterly&offset=120 ''Index to the Spanish-Mexican Private Land Grant Records and Cases of California''] by J. N. Bowman. (1958. Reprint. Berkeley: Bancroft Library, University of California, 1970, film 0833343).

====== Miscellaneous ======

* ''1790 Padron of California.'' (n.p., n.d., film 1036747). This was copied from "Las Familias de California" section of ''Southern California Historical Society Quarterly''.

*"The First Census of Los Angeles." [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007863399 ''Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly''] 16 by Thomas Workman Temple. (1931): 148-9.

*[https://www.worldcat.org/title/founding-of-spanish-california-the-northwestward-expansion-of-new-spain-1687-1783/oclc/902685799&referer=brief_results ''The Founding of Spanish California: The Northwest Expansion of New Spain, 1687-1783''] by Charles E. Chapman. (New York: Macmillian & Co., 1916).

*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bkeywords%3AHistorical%20%2Bkeywords%3ASociety%20%2Bkeywords%3Aof%20%2Bkeywords%3ASouthern%20%2Bkeywords%3ACalifornia%20%2Bkeywords%3AQuarterly&offset=120 ''Ramo de Californias: 1582-1842''] Historical materials from Viceroyalty of Nueva details Lower and Upper California. Includes settlement records of Pueblo de Los Angeles (1781), military lists (1748, 1769-74), and Inquisition records. Orginal records are at the Archivo General de al Nación in Mexico City.

*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bkeywords%3AHistorical%20%2Bkeywords%3ASociety%20%2Bkeywords%3Aof%20%2Bkeywords%3ASouthern%20%2Bkeywords%3ACalifornia%20%2Bkeywords%3AQuarterly&offset=120 ''Spanish Bluecoats, the Catalonian Volunteers in Northwestern New Spain, 1767-1810''] by Joseph P. Sánchez. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990). History and maps of Spanish claims to Mexico, California, and Alaska.<ref>Christina K. Schaefer, ''Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere'' (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 567-569. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FHL|822639|item|disp=FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref>

*''Survey of Pre-Statehood Records: A New Look at Spanish and Mexican-Californian Genealogical Records'' by Rudecinda Lo Buglio. (Salt Lake City: Corporation of the President, 1980, fiche 6085820).

*''The Story of San José: California's First Pueblo, 1777-1869'' by Oscar O. Winther. (San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1935).

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