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Below you will find books and resources
regarding Yolo County that are available for look-ups.
If you own any other Yolo County books or resources and
will do look-ups, please let me know.
Feel free to request a look-up from the following resources.
Please put YOLO COUNTY LOOK-UP in the subject line of
your request to insure the message is not overlooked or
accidently deleted. In the first line of the message
please put the name of the resource you are requesting the
look-up in.
Please remember that "look-ups"should only take a few minutes
of the volunteers' research time. Volunteers are here to
help, but have their own genealogies.
Volunteers doing look-ups in books
under copyrights will be obeying copyright laws. For review
of copyright
guidelines, visit the USGenWeb site.
The Yolo County Historical
Society has many current books for sale on Yolo County.
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LOOK-UPS
- (Black’s Station) The History of Black’s Station/Zamora and Its People
email: Elaine
Hermle
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Capay Valley: The Land – The People – 1846
- 1900, by Ada Merhoff, printed by Roger C. Frank,
Woodland, California, 1986.
email: Peggy B. Perazzo
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Clarksburg – Delta Community, by Shipley
Walters, Yolo County Historical Society, Woodland, California,
1988. (If you would like a copy this book, it is available for purchase from the Yolo County Historical Society.)
email: Peggy B. Perazzo
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Crafting a Valley Jewel: Architects and Builders of Woodland, by David L. Wilkinson, Yolo County Historical Society, Woodland, California,
2003. (If you would like a copy this book, it is available for purchase from the Yolo County Historical Society.)
email: Peggy B. Perazzo
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Davisville '68: The History and Heritage of the City
of Davis, Yolo County, California. Compiled by Joann
Leach Larkey, published by The Davis Historical and Landmarks
Commission, Davis, California, 1969.
email: Peggy B. Perazzo
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Early Tax Roll – 1850 Yolo County
email: Roberta
Peeples
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Free Look-ups on Genealogy CD's – CD
lists at the following links:
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Great Register of Yolo County
1866 - 1872; Aug 1875 - Oct 1876; May 1878 - June 1878
email: Roberta
Peeples
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Guide to the Yolo County Archives, Yolo County
Archives, Woodland, California, October 1997.
email: Peggy B. Perazzo
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Historical Downtown Woodland Walking Tour, Researched and written by Marcia Cary, Ron Pinegar, Jack Potter, and David Wilkinson, 1992. (A copy of this booklet is available for purchase from the City of Woodland Planning Commission.)
email: Peggy B. Perazzo
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History of Yolo County, California, with Biographical
Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the County....,
History by Tom Gregory, et. al., Historic Record Company,
Los Angeles, California, 1913, reprinted by Higginson Book
Company, Salem, Massachusetts, 2000.
email: Peggy B. Perazzo
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"Knight's Landing: The River, the Land and the
People," by Shipley Walters with Tom Anderson,
Yolo County Historical Society, Woodland, California, 1992. (If you would like a copy this book, it is available for purchase from the Yolo County Historical Society.)
email: Peggy B. Perazzo
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(The Yolo County Section of) A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, Containing a history of this important section of the Pacific Coast from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel portraits of its most Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of Prominent Citizens of To-day, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1891. (Yolo County section pp. 277-282.)
email: Peggy B. Perazzo
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Old North Davis: Guide to walking a traditional neighborhood, by John Lofland, Yolo County Historical Society, Woodland, California,
1999. (If you would like a copy this book, it is available for purchase from the Yolo County Historical Society.)
email: Peggy B. Perazzo
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Walking Tour of Historic Woodland, City of Woodland Historical Preservation Commission, 1997. (A copy of this booklet is available for purchase from the City of Woodland Planning Commission.)
email: Peggy B. Perazzo
- The Western Shore Gazetteer and Commercial Directory,
For the State of California, Containing the names of all
the adult male citizens of the State,..., Yolo County,
Compiled and published annually by C. P. Sprague & H. V.
Atwell, Woodland, Yolo County. Date on preface:
Nov. 1870; reprinted by Higginson Book Company 1998. ( This book has been transcribed by Peggy B. Perazzo and can be read by going to the link above.)
email: Peggy B. Perazzo
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Winters: A Heritage of Horticulture, A Harmony of Purpose , by Joann Leach Larkey, Yolo County Historical Society, Woodland, California,
1991. (If you would like a copy this book, it is available for purchase from the Yolo County Historical Society.)
email: Peggy B. Perazzo
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Winters Architectural Heritage: A Guide To The Historic Architecture of Winters, prepared by Historic Environment Consultants, the Winters Historical Landmark Advisory Committee, 1985.
email: Peggy B. Perazzo
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Winters Tales: Stories, poems, and recollections about life in Winters, California, edited by Diane Cary, photographs by Jamie Chomas, Winters Friends of the Library, P.O. Box 963, Winters, CA 95694, 2002.
email: Peggy B. Perazzo
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Woodland – City of Trees – A History
by Shipley Walters, 1995. (If you would like a copy this book, it is available for purchase from the Yolo County Historical Society.)
email: Peggy B. Perazzo
- Yolo County – Land of Changing Patterns,
by Joann L. Larkey and Shipley Walters, 1987.
email: Peggy B. Perazzo
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You will find these two links useful in researh at the
Shields Library, UC Davis:
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Research assistance is available at the Shield's Library,
University of California – Davis by the following:
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Thomas Tinney, Sr. – U.
C. Davis, Shield's Library, On-Line Tour created
by V. Chris & Thomas M. Tinney, Sr.. Get acquainted with
the many resources available at the Sheild's library using
Thomas Tinney's very complete on-line tour. For further
information, you can e-mail Tom Tinney, Sr.
email: Tom Tinney,
Sr.
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