A division of the Office of the Secretary of State, provides a repository for the state's permanent governmental records as well as other materials documenting California history. www.ss.ca.gov/archives/archives.htm
Library of Congress site documenting the WPA ethnomusicology project in 1938-1940 to collect English and ethnic folk music of Northern California. memory.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/cowhome.html
Archive of images illustrating the state's history and culture from the collections of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. sunsite.berkeley.edu/calheritage
Project dedicated to locating, cataloging, and preserving newspaper publications published in California from 1846 to the present. Online catalog provides information on the location and condition of these publications. www.cbsr.ucr.edu/cnp
This site lists all of the resources concerning the history of Isla Vista, California that are available to researchers at the Department of Special Collections at the Davidson Library, UCSB. www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/ivweb/iv1.html
The story of California from the physical aspects to the historical is told in short articles accessed through a timeline, covering the state's history from the European exploration through the Great Depression of the 1930s. www.californiahistory.net
Profiles O. Henry Mace, author of 47 Down: The 1922 Argonaut Gold Mine Disaster; Collectors Guide to Early Photographs; and Between the Rivers: A History of Early Calaveras County. www.timeship.com
Locate resources (online listings, books, CD-Rom, lookups and addresses) for vital records in each county within the state of California. www.daddezio.com/records/room/RR-CA-NDX.html
Brief history and genealogy of the Joaquin and Maria Carrillo family of early California includes information about their lives in San Diego and Sonoma. Also includes information about their grandson Romualdo Pacheco, California's first native born and on www.carrillo.info
An unofficial history of California Energy Commission power plant licensing cases from 1975 to 2001. Broken down by eras, the site describes over 70 different proceedings, with technologies such as geothermal, natural gas, solar, coal, and garbage burnin powerplanting.homestead.com/index.html