Plumas County, California GenWeb Project

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Map of State of California with Plumas County highlighted (image) Plumas County was formed from parts of Butte County in 1864. It was only natural to name the county for the river that flows through it - The Feather River. The river originally was named “El Rio de las Plumas” in 1821 by Spanish explorer Luis Antonio Argüelo for the multitude of waterfowl seen upon its waters. In about 1850, the name was anglicized to “Feather River.”

The total population of Plumas County, as of 2000, was 20,824. The county seat is Quincy. The only incorporated city in the county is Portola. There are just three stoplights installed at intersections within Plumas County – two at Quincy intersections and one at a Portola intersection.

Read more about the history of Plumas County at the County History page.

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Welcome! This site is designed to help those researching families in Plumas County to find FREE genealogy resources. Our success depends on YOU! If you have access to Plumas County family resources, please consider allowing us to post it on this website so that others may benefit, too.

Your volunteer County Coordinator for the Plumas County, California GenWeb Project is Elizabeth Bullard-Watson. I hope that you will enjoy your visit and find this website helpful. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to eMail me (address below).

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NEIGHBORING COUNTIES

Butte (west and southwest)
Lassen (north and east)
Shasta (northwest)
Sierra (south and southeast)
Tehama (west)
Yuba (south)

Photograph of Elizabeth Bullard-Watson Elizabeth E. Bullard-Watson, County Coordinator since May 1, 2004

This page was last modified on August 1, 2008.

In order to discourage eMail harvesting bots, which lead to spam, eMail addresses are not displayed as links on this site. I apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause you. To contact me, send eMail to watbull(AT)frontiernet.net – replace the (AT) with an @ symbol. Please note that there are two ‘nets’ in my eMail address.

If you experience difficulty while attempting to contact me, or if you have issues with this site, please contact the California Assistant State Coordinator, Martha A. Crosley-Graham at mawr(AT)sbcglobal.net – replace the (AT) with an @ symbol. Alternatively, you may write to me at:

PO Box 114

Taylorsville, CA 95983-0114

Volunteers are needed and appreciated always! If you would like to help by volunteering to conduct local research, or by transcribing data, or if you have a Plumas County resource that you are willing to share, please contact Elizabeth Bullard-Watson (address above).

Sincere thanks is due to the previous coordinator, Tim I. Purdy, for all of his hard work on this website and for his ongoing contributions to this website.

Neither this website, nor the Plumas County, California GenWeb Project, have any affiliation whatsoever with Plumas County, California government.

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About the USGenWeb Project
In the spring of 1996, a group of genealogists with mutual interests in Kentucky genealogy organized the Kentucky Comprehensive Genealogy Database Project. The idea was to provide a single entry point for all counties within the State of Kentucky where collected databases could be stored. Furthermore, the databases would be indexed and cross-referenced, so that even if an individual was found in more than one county, he or she could be located in the central index. This idea spread quickly to other states and, by the end of the summer of 1996, the USGenWeb Project was born. This project is an outgrowth of that original project. Today, the USGenWeb Project is a loosely organized group of volunteers that work to create a center for genealogical research for every county within the United States. Visit the USGenWeb Project.

Jeff Donald Murphy, of Redmond, Oregon, was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, son of Powell Davis Murphy and Marjorie (Morrison) Murphy. Jeff was the founder of the KYGenWeb, the USGenWeb, USBiographies, and co-founder of KYBiographies.

About the CAGenWeb Project
In June, 1996 as the Kentucky Project was coming to together, project organizers decided to create a page for each state, establishing the USGenWeb Project. Project organizers located volunteers that were willing to coordinate the collection of county pages for a state page. The first California USGenWeb Project page was loaded onto the Internet on 16 Jul 1996. If you would like to sponsor a California county, or volunteer in any way to help with the CAGenWeb Project, contact Martha A. Crosley-Graham, the California Assistant State Coordinator, at mawr(AT)sbcglobal.net – substitute the (AT) for an @ symbol.

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Copyright Notice: The content of this website is a collective work that may contain some private contributions. Said private contributions are so-noted and copyright of those private contributions belongs to the original author. Most of the textual and photographic content on this site has been donated by Elizabeth E. Bullard-Watson and is free for the public to use at will, as long as the data remains free. Under no circumstances is any data from this site to be used on a pay-for-use site. Clipart found on this site is royalty-free, but may include some limited commercial rights.

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