Welcome To Santa Barbara County California

• About Santa Barbara County
• Books on Santa Barbara County History
• Santa Barbara County History with links to cities' and towns' websites.
• Santa Barbara Waterfront History
• Santa Barbara Maritime Museum
• Santa Barbara County Landmarks
• County Cemeteries
• Search for Santa Barbara County Historical documents
• Santa Maria Valley
• Santa Barbara County Map
• Santa Barbara County Other communities in the County, including Santa Maria, Buellton, Lompoc, Carpinteria and Goleta.
• The Danish community of Solvang
• Chumash Indians
• Spanish and Mexican Land Grants 1855 - 1875

• Home Pages with Santa Barbara County Connections


If you would like to add your Santa Barbara County-related Home Page, please email Dorothy Oksner
• Donald Pond's Home Page---DeSpain Family
• Peggy Wehe's Home Page---Moquin and Bohnett families
• Catherine Wilson's Home Page---Carrillo, Arellanes, De la Torre, Hartnell, De la Guerra Families
• David and Sonja Kellogg Kelloggs Out West. Taken entirely from a book that our Great grandfather, Franklin Erwin Kellogg, wrote in 1907, and published in Santa Barbara.
• Earlene Ruiz Grady Ethel Christina Ruiz and Jose J. Ruiz are Earlene's ancestors. Love is in the Heir at "Earlene's Roots"
• Eelia Goldsmith Henderscheid My father's side of the family were in Santa Barbara for several generations. I have some pictures of the Webster family and some genealogy for them on my web page. I also have the Orella Family. See them at www.netwizards.com/~eeliag/ . 




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• Santa Barbara County Neighbors

• Ventura County
• San Luis Obispo County
• Kern County


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• Santa Barbara County Libraries and Genealogical Societies
  

• Santa Barbara Public Library (Main)
  Has online catalog
  40 East Anapamu Street
  Santa Barbara, CA 93101
  Phone: (805)962-7653
  See listing of newspapers, periodicals and other genealogical/historical
  reference materials HERE with explanation on how to obtain copies of obituaries.
• LDS (Mormon) Library
Family History Center
Salt Lake City online catalog for Family History Library
2107 Santa Barbara Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
Phone: (805)682-2092
Hours: Wed - 10-8 p.m., Thurs - 10-6 p.m., Fri - 9-3 p.m., Sat 9-12 noon

• Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society and Sahyun Library
316 Castillo Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Phone (805) 884-9909
Mail to: P.O. Box 1303
Goleta, CA 93116-1303
Open: Tues, Thurs, Fri 10-3 pm.
Sun 1-4 pm.
Monthly Newsletter. . .Tree Tips,
Quarterly Journal. . .Ancestors West

Lompoc Historical Reference Library and Museum
The Museum is open from 1 to 5 p.m., Tuesdays through Fridays and 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. It is closed Mondays.
200 South H Street
Lompoc, CA 93436
Phone (805) 735-4626. Call ahead for appointment if researching in the library

• Santa Maria Valley Genealogical Society
P.O. Box 1215
Santa Maria, CA 93456-1215
The society's library has been relocated to the Santa Maria Public Library in the Genealogy room upstairs.
Meetings are on the 3rd Thursday of the month, September through June; 3:30 p.m. at the Oak Knolls Haven Recreation Room, 4845 So. Bradley Road (at Patterson Road), Orcutt, CA. Public is welcome to our general meetings.

Lompoc Genealogical Society
PO Box 81
Lompoc, CA 93438-0081
Monthly newsletter. . . .SearchNotes



• Gledhill Library (Santa Barbara Historical Society)
Online catalog
136 East De la Guerra Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Phone: (805)966-1601


• UCSB Main Library (Davidson Library)
Davidson Library (805) 893-2478
UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010
Genealogy: Library Research Guide
UC online catalog (MELVYL) for genealogy
Phone: (805)893-2478
UCSB Special Collections (3rd Floor of main library)


• Santa Maria Public Library
  Has online catalog
  420 South Broadway
  Santa Maria, CA 93454
  Phone: (805)925-0994
  Genealogy collection and services in filling obituary requests
  
  
• Lompoc Public Library
501 East North Avenue
Lompoc, CA 93436
Phone: (805)736-3477


• San Luis Obispo Public Library
  995 Palm Street
  San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
  Phone: (805) 781-5991
  email: ipslolib@slonet.org
  
  
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• Santa Barbara City Links
• History of the Presidio in Santa Barbara by Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation
• Historical City Adobes
• Museums
• Botanic Garden
• The City of Santa Barbara
• Fiesta in Santa Barbara
• Santa Barbara Historical Society


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• Other California Links
• Everton's California Genealogy Sources
• California Master County Index
• California Biographical References with Indexes
• California Births 1905-2000 (suffer the pop-ups to get good results from searches. Pop-ups must be enabled to get into the search area)
• Argonauts of California
• California Spanish Genealogy

  

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  • Other GenWeb Links
  • Genealogist's Index to the World Wide Web
  • US GenWeb Page
  • World GenWeb
  • California GenWeb Archives
  • California Pioneer Project

 

You can submit queries about your Santa Barbara Ancestors to CASBARBA-L@ rootsweb.com.

How to subscribe.

Send a message to CASBARBA-L@ rootsweb.com. that contains (in the body of the message) the command subscribe and no additional text.


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Genealogy Tools
• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet-California
• Helpful genealogy sites on the Web
• History Books Online
• Using Federal Documents in Genealogical Research
• Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
• Robert Ragan's Treasure Maps. How-to Genealogy Site and free monthly e-mail Genealogy Newsletter
• AOL's Hispanic Genealogy Group's Home Page
• Danish Genealogy
• Scandinavian Genealogy
• Danish Emigration Archives
• Chumash Indians
• California Spanish Genealogy
• Los Californianos




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• Where to Write for County Vital Records (or you can just order directly on the internet using the form right here.
• For Birth $18.00, Death $13.00, and Marriage $13.00 Certificates as of January 1, 2003(only certified are issued):
• Santa Barbara County Clerk/Recorder
P.O. Box 159
Santa Barbara, CA 93101-0159
• Divorce and Probate records vary in cost depending on size of file. Send request to:
  Clerk, Superior Court
  Santa Barbara County Courthouse
  P.O. Box 159
  Santa Barbara, CA 93102-0159


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