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I have listed many of the Mendocino County resources that are available, although certainly not all. If you own any Mendocino County books, whether listed or not, and will do look-ups, please let me know. As you can see, volunteers are needed.
Feel free to request a look-up from the following books. Please limit your request to one name per request. Please put MENDOCINO COUNTY LOOKUP in the subject line of your request to insure the message is not overlooked or accidentally deleted. In the first line of the message please put the name of the book you are requesting the lookup in. If you request a lookup, don't forget to thank your volunteer for their time.
We are a historical society and house museum with artifacts.
Number of members: 300 Activities: 1 yearly letter; 10-12 books
of
area for sale; displays at Mendocino Co. Fair. Hours: Fri-Sun, 11-4
Summer,
12-4 Winter Contact: Beth Tuttle, Secretary
Grace Hudson Museum and The Sun House
431 South Main Street
Ukiah, CA 95482
707-467-2836
Guest House Museum
416 N. Franklin Street
Fort Bragg, CA 95437
707-961-1840
We are a house museum.
Activities: Logging and lumber museum in 1892 C.R. Johnson House.
Artifacts and photos. Temporary and permanent exhibits. Hours: Apr-Oct:
10-4, Wed-Sat and 1-4, Sun; Nov-Mar: 10-4, Sat; adults $1 Contact:
Alder
Thurman, Director
Held-Poage Memorial Home and Research
Library
603 W. Perkins Street
Ukiah, CA 95482-4726
707-462-6969
If you use the services of this historical library please make a contribution. They are a non-profit organization with an all volunteer staff and your contribution is needed for their continued operation. Your contribution is tax deductible.
Hours: Open Monday
thru Saturday 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. or
by
appointment
We are an archives and/or manuscript repository and house museum operated by the Mendocino County Historical Society.
Activities: 1903 Queen Anne Victorian home of William D.L. Held. Native American and local historical artifacts for exhibit and research. Kitchen and parlor furniture. 5,100 volume library, county records, and newspapers. Guided tours. Bi-monthly newsletter.
See list of publications for sale HERE
Held Poage Research
Library
is seeking descendants of the Pioneer
Families of Mendocino
County to contribute to the growing collection
The library staff and
volunteers have compiled a number of files, but
need assistance with
documentation and clarification of the family
connections.
Those
who can contribute information or additional
material are invited
to visit Tuesday through Saturday 1:30 p. m. to
4:00 p.m.or by
appointment,
or to contact Held Poage Historical
Library, 603 W.
Perkins Street, Ukiah, CA 95482-4726, telephone (707)
462-6969.
The library is
attempting
to contact the researcher, who borrowed the
CARNER and Allied
Families
File. There is some additional material to
add to the file. The
library staff ask the researchers or anyone with
information about this
person to contact library as soon as possible.
Held Poage Research
Library
has been open to the public since April
1972.
Information
contributed
by
Lila J. Lee, Director
Held Poage Research
Library
Mendocino
County
Historical
Society, Inc.,
603 West Perkins Street
Ukiah, CA 95482-4726
707-462-6969
We are a historical society.
Memberships: Life $200, Life Couple $300, Patron $50, Contributing $25, Couple (one address) $15, Individual $10
Number of members: 513 Activities: See Held-Poage Memorial Home and Library listing.
The following books are available:
All are plus $.0725 sales tax and handling
fees
There is a discount if you are a Society
member
or a book retailer
Mendocino
County Museum
400 East Commercial Street
Willits, CA 95490
707-459-2736
Contact: Herbert E.
Pruett, Director
Check their website for current
information and resources.
Mendocino Headlands State Park
We are a historical park and house museum.
Hours: 10-5, daily Contact: Dave Bartlett
We are an archives mid/or manuscript repository and house historical society museum.
Activities: Photographs and documents about Mendocino and
genealogy.
Temporary and traveling exhibits. Sponsor House Tour in May, Ice Cream
Social and Town Parade in July, auction in October, and Traditional
Christmas.
Publish annual MHR Review and newsletter. Hours: Museum, 1-4, Fri-Mon;
office and research, 9-4, Tue-Fri; other times by appointment. Contact:
Don Tucker, President
Mendocino Coast Genealogical Society
P. O. Box 762
Fort Bragg, CA 95437
Publications:
What Became of the Little Red Schoolhouse? This is a six volume series about early schools in Mendocino County.
Volume 1, Mendocino Area $10.00,
Volume 2, Fort Bragg $10.00,
Volume 3, Willits-Laytonville, $10.00,
Volume 4, Potter Valley-Round Valley $10.00,
Volume 5, Anderson Valley-Point Arena $12.00,
Volume 6, Ukiah-Redwood Valley-Hopland, $10.00
Rev. John S. Ross-Register of Deaths 1873-1914, Price not provided
Rev. John S. Ross Register of Marriages 1873-1914, Price not provided
Research: They will research their register of cemeteries and records of the Cannarr Funeral Home 1921-1943 at a cost of $4.00, plus cost of copies.
Lookups by the Mendocino Coast Genealogy Society:
Mildred Williams has graciously offered to do lookups for the following information found in the Advocate News.
The Mendocino Coast Genealogy Society has in prepartion the
complete
printed listing of all Births, Deaths, Marriages and interesting
genealogical
information that has appeared in the local newspaper, Advocate News.
All
of this information up to 1939 is at the present time on disk. This
enables
a local researcher, and an officer of the Society, the ability to
search
and find a name very quickly. He has consented to make available to me
the privilege of using his disks to search for anyone that would like
research
on anyone that lived in this area during the years of the publication
of
the newspaper. There will be a fee of $7.50 for a search in
the Volumes 1-5 of the Births, Marriages and Deaths, as printed
in the Fort Bragg Advocate-News for the years of 1939 to the
present.
Volume 6 (1940-1949) will be released in March 1999, and Volume 7
(1950-1959)
in the fall of 1999. These moneys collected will go to the Book
Fund
of the Society, which buys and shelves books in the Fort Bragg Library.
Russian River Cemetery District P.O. Box 421, Ukiah, CA
95482
707-462-8012
(located on Low Gap Rd.)
Point Arena Cemetery
Potter Valley Cemetery
The Mendocino County Historical Society has
the above cemetery records on microfilm or in print
(707) 462-6969
Mendocino-Little River Cemetery P.O. Box 1185, Mendocino,
CA
95460 707-937-2010
Rose Memorial Park Assn Inc 760 N Franklin St, Fort Bragg, CA
95437 707-964-2626
Cemetery District Of Redwoods 1200 Fort Bragg Rd, Willits, CA
95490 707-459-5252
The Mendocino County Historical Society also has the above cemeteries' records
Mendocino County, California Cemeteries on-line
| Andersonia - near Bear Alpine (Duffy) Arthur Bear Harbor Bridgeport (Miller) Boyles * Christine Cahto Centerville Cottoneva Cuffey's Cove DeHaven Fish Rock - north of Anchor Bay Glen Blair Garvia Greenwood (Elk) |
Hardy Hearst Howard Creek Hullsville (Lake Pillsbury) Hermitage - near Yorkville Hardscratch (to make a living) Nip and Tuck (to get in or out of harbor) Hopflat 8 miles up Navarro River Hansen's Halfway House Irmulco Inglenook |
Iverson Kibesillah Kendallville (Boonville) Kenny Laguna (Cleone) Little Lake (Willits) Moody Meigsville (Mendocino) Manzanita (Salsig) Melburne Newport - near Westport Navarro (mouth of river) Needlerock Northwestern (Brooktrails) Ornbaun |
Pomo Pinegrove Poonkinney Sherwood Salmon Creek (Whitesboro) Sanel (Hopland) Tomki Union Landing Usal Wendling ( present Navarro) Weges Creek Whitehall (south of Cloverdale on Hwy 128) Willitsville (Willits) |
To search for Old California Post Offices go to http://pbbooks.com/caindex.htm
The following is the entire staff of the Mendocino State Hospital
at Ukiah
in 1899:
BOARD OF MANAGERS
Appointed by the Governor. Term, 4 years, $10 dollars per
diem for
attendance at meetings and traveling expenses.
J H Seawell, President, Ukiah
J C Ruddock, Ukiah
M Gardner, Sacramento
J Q White, Ukiah
A W Foster, San Francisco
W W Cunningham, Ukiah, Secretary and Treasurer, $840 per annum
E W King, Medical Supt.
L A Elster, Asst. Physician
F C Handy, Private Secretary to Supt.
W G Jones, Steward
C H Duncan, Steward's clerk
M M Carothers, Engineer
O J Moseley, Supervisor
Mrs. R N Willing, Acting Matron
E W Twitchell, Interne
Miss J Wilson, Laundress
Miss G Hargis, Seamstress
B T Farrel, Laundryman
James George, Carpenter
L F Doering, Gardener
C P Turner, Baker
George Haugstead, Chief Cook
Charles Roller, Second Cook
John Sweeney, Third Cook
L M Johnson, Basement Man
William York, Teamster
A N McPeak, Teamster
E A Townsend, Cartman
Alfred Nelson, Hostler
D S McKinley, Fireman
I Tellefsen, Assistant to Baker
G A Keller, Painter
S A McDonald, Shoemaker
G A Corley, Blacksmith
J A Harvey, Usher
H B Kister, Head Waiter
Miss V Locher, Housemaid
Miss M Waltrip, Housemaid
ATTENDANTS
C W Mero
Amos Mahurin
W W Ware
W P O'Neil
C W Wallace
ASSISTANT ATTENDANTS
A Opplinger
J D Ginochio
George Hildreth
E Barlow
E Blomquist
E J Donahue
C Finney
C U White
A G Bechtol
F W Dart
George Pratt
W D Akers
FEMALE ATTENDANTS
Miss M Osborn
Mrs. F Henley
FEMALE ASSISTANT ATTENDANTS
Mrs. A Montgomery
Miss E Fotzpatrick
Miss F Presley
Miss H Orr
E V Stanfield, Night Watch
Thomas Mothersole, Outside Night Watch
Miss K Lydon, Night Watch
Received courtesy of Sue Jacobsen
| History
of Mendocino County by Palmer 1880 See:CH Men 1880 PALMER, LYMAN L. History of Mendocino County, California, comprising its geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber. Also, extended sketches of its mills and milling, mines and mining interests; together with a full and particular record of the Mexican grants; early history and settlement, compiled from the most authentic sources, names of original Spanish and American pioneers; a full record of its organization; a complete political history, including a tablular statement of its office holders since the formation of the County. Separate histories of Anderson, Arena, Big River, Calpella, Little Lake, Round Valley, Sanel, Ten-mile River and Ukiah townships; incidents of pioneer life, and biographical sketches of early and prominent settlers and representative men, also a historical sketch of the State of California, in which is embodied the raising of the Bear Flag. San Francisco: Alley, Bowen and Company, 1880. You can search this text yourself
thanks to the great effort of a group of volunteers who have placed it
all on the web. Simply click on the text title above and it will
take you to the directly to the resource. |
| History
of Mendocino and Lake Counties California by Carpenter and Millberry
1914 See: CH Lak 1914 CARPENTER, AURELIUS O. History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the Counties who have been identified with their growth and development from the early days to the present. Los Angeles: Historic Record Company, 1914 To determine if your family member is in this publication click on the text heading and follow the instructions. If your family member is found you may e-mail the volunteer lookup with the name of the family member and the name of the book for further details. |
| Historical
and Descriptive Sketch Book of Napa, Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino
Counties
by Menefee, 1873 See: CH Nap 1873 MENEFEE, CAMPBELL AUGUSTUS. Historical and descriptive sketch book of Napa, Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino Counties. Napa City: Reporter Publishing House, 1873. To determine if your family member is in this publication click on the text heading and follow the instructions. If your family member is found you may e-mail the volunteer lookup with the name of the family member and the name of the book for further details. |
| Memories of the Mendocino Coast by Ryder
1948 See: 979.415 R97 RYDER, DAVID WARREN. Memories of the Mendocino Coast; being a brief account of the discovery, settlement and development of the Mendocino Coast, together with a correlated history of the Union Lumber Company and how coast and company grew up together. San Francisco: Privately printed, 1948. |
| Mendocino Remembered Vol. I &
Vol. II |
| Early Portuguese Families of Mendocino
by Sverko, 1995 |
Family History or Resource Book Owned by E-mail address
| Some Reminiscences of my Seventy-Four Years in Mendocino County by Lilburn Gibson | Lewis Ruddick | lruddick@ix.netcom.com |
| The Ruddick Family in America by John W. Hanneman |
Lewis Ruddick | lruddick@ix.netcom.com |
| In The Round Valley Area 60 Years Ago Mendocino Co. Historical Society. Author John V. Brereton |
Barbara Morehead | barbmore@northcoast.com |
| The Story of the Stolen Valley Copyright 1977 by L & S Publishing, Willits, CA. by Rena Lynn [about Covelo outlaws] |
Barbara Morehead | barbmore@northcoast.com |
| The Hollingsworth Family by Elva [Hollingsworth] Firebaugh [Willits/Covelo areas] |
Barbara Morehead | barbmore@northcoast.com |
| From Acorns to Oaks, A Potter Valley History-1855-1985
by Delight Corbett Shelton [1986] |
Barbara Morehead | barbmore@northcoast.com |
| Early Settlers of Comptche, Along Its Many Roads by Elsa E. Thompson [1973] |
Barbara Morehead | barbmore@northcoast.com |
|
Grangers Business Association, 38 Cal. St., SF. For years 1893-1894 |
Barbara Morehead | barbmore@northcoast.com |
| A Little Bit of Willits History | Kathryn L. Preast |
kpreast@concentric.net |
| Ernest Everett Rawles oral history Delcena McAbee Rawles oral history Ermine (Wallach) Turner oral history Susan Weaver McAbee oral history |
James Wesley Rawles | rawles@usa.net |
| "Births, Deaths and Marriages on California's Mendocino Coast Volume two 1910-1919" | Carylon Osborn Viuhkola | viuhkola@clatskanie.com |
| Lighthouses & Lifeboats on the Redwood Coast, by Ralph
C. Shanks,
Jr. and Janetta Thompson Shanks; 1978; Costano Books; San Anselmo, CA |
Jan Ramos | RamosGang@worldnet.att.net |