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California
is the most populous state of the United
States. Located on the Pacific coast
of North
America, it is bordered by Oregon,
Nevada
and Arizona
in the United States, and Baja
California in Mexico. The state's four largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose and San Francisco. The state has
58 counties.
It comprised the territory of Las
Californias. Inhabited by
indigenous people for millennia, California was first colonized by the
Spanish in 1769, and after Mexican independence in
1821, continued as part of Mexico. Following a brief period as the
independent California Republic in 1846,
California was annexed by the United States that same year, and was admitted
to the Union as the thirty-first state on September
9, 1850.
California's diverse geography ranges from the sandy beaches of the
Pacific to the rugged, snow-capped Sierra Nevada
mountains in the east. The central portion of the state is dominated by the California
Central Valley, one of the most vital agricultural areas in the
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Alameda Alpine Amador Butte Calaveras Colusa Contra Costa Del Norte El Dorado Fresno Glenn Humboldt Imperial Inyo Kern Kings Lake Lassen Los Angeles Madera Marin Mariposa Mendocino Merced Modoc Mono Monterey Napa Nevada Orange Placer Plumas Riverside Sacramento San Benito San Bernardino San Diego San Francisco San Joaquin San Luis Obispo
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The
following are surnames of persons, found within our databases, as having been either born, married or
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Abbott Arnold Bailey Blosser Brown Burgdorf Campbell Childs Cotten Coulson Crigger |
Della Douglass Dovel Dyer Fay Fly Frechette Gilligan Grant |
Gross Haggard Halbert Hammond Harper Hildebrand Hodgdon Hoskins Huhtala James |
Johnson Jones Knight Linkletter McCutcheon McMahan McNutt McVicker Milton |
Montgomery Moreland Parsons Peachy Peyton Pinnell Rhodes Robbins Saak |
Schockley Scruggs Simpson Southard Tewksbury Tipton Turner Valentine Waiters Wilson |
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Cissell; Gage;
Habermann; MacDade; Neff;
Petersen; Shank; Silar;
Stanker |
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listed above click on the corresponding LINK. Additional information regarding
these surnames may also be found at: |
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ANCESTOR |
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LOCATION |
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1848 |
Gold
is discovered on John A. Sutter's land. Mexico
cedes California to the United States. |
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1850 |
California
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1857 |
William C. Rhodes
Sarah
(Douglass) Rhodes
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Migrate from Texas in a covered wagon to California
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1860 |
William C. Rhodes
Sarah
(Douglass) Rhodes |
Rhodes
family moves from San Bernardino Co. |
Tulare
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1867 |
Albea
E. Scruggs |
Migrated
from Virginia to California |
Stanislaus
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1869 |
California
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1875 |
Albea
E. Scruggs and Julia Rhodes |
Marriage
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Tulare
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1878 |
John Eldridge
Scruggs
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Born
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Tulare
Co. |
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1890-91 |
John Robert
McVicker and
Mary
Ella (Johnson) McVicker |
Moved
to California from Kansas |
Tulare
Co. |
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1897 |
John Eldridge
Scruggs and
Minnie V.
McVicker
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Marriage |
Tulare
Co. |
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1901 |
Pearl Ella
Scruggs
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Born
at Poplar |
Tulare
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1906 |
The San Francisco earthquake and fire
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1906 |
Albea E.
Scruggs
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Died |
Tulare
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1910-20 |
John Robert
McVicker
Mary Ella
(Johnson) McVicker
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Moved to Pomona
section of San Jose Township
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Angeles Co. |
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1913 |
Sarah R.
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Died
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Tulare
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1920 |
Minnie
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Died
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Tulare
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1918 |
Mary (Pinnell)
Moreland and
Jerre’ Floyd
Moreland
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Moved
from Woodward Co. Oklahoma to California |
Tulare
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1922 |
Julia (Rhodes)
Scruggs
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Died
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Tulare
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1923 |
Jerre’ Floyd
Moreland and
Pearl Ella
Scruggs
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Marriage
at Methodist Center, University of Southern California |
Los
Angeles Co. |
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1929 |
John Robert
McVicker
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Died
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Tulare
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1940 |
Mary
Ella (Johnson) McVicker |
Died
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Tulare
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1942 |
President Franklin Roosevelt signs an order removing all
people of Japanese descent from the West Coast, including U.S. citizens. |
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John
Eldridge Scruggs |
Died |
Tulare
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Our Ancestral Counties
The following named counties are associated with the history of our DIRECT ancestors. To select a
specific ancestral county, go to our Ancestral
Locations home page. Here you will find
additional links to our county pages where you can obtain information about
our family gen-sites, images of localities, and surnames of persons, in our
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The following Links will take you to
gazetteers that identify places within this U.S. State. These resources feature profiles of cities,
towns, neighborhoods and subdivisions.
In addition this site contains maps, data and directions for a wide
variety of physical, cultural and historic features. |
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California Cities
- profiles of 6,431 California
cities, towns & neighborhoods California Physical Features such as lakes, islands & steams California Cultural Features such as schools, parks, hospitals
& airports California Civil Features such as Native
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Clicking on
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information specific to that location.
The USGenWeb Project also sponsors important Special Projects, at the national level, that
were created to collect and disseminate data that goes beyond county and
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Wikipedia is a multilingual,
Web-based,
free-content
encyclopedia
project based mostly on anonymous contributions. Clicking on a Link (below) will take you to the Wikipedia
article about the county. Here you will find additional links to guide the
user to related pages with additional information. |
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Resources
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Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia ·
Free
Genealogy Search Help For Google ·
Linkpendium > Genealogy
> USA ·
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Cyndi's List - United States Index ·
IGI
Batch Numbers - British Isles & North America ·
Libweb - Libraries
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The following Link will take you to our library of genealogy reference books that pertain to this U.S. State. Here you will find books about the history and records of this State, as well as its counties and other localities such as towns and churches. The collection also contains research works about State military units and personnel during America’s wars. In addition, there are resource texts about the ethnic and religious groups who settled in this State. |
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