Huntington Library - New Online Resource for Tracing
Early Californians
The Huntington Library's website has a new section that will prove to be an
invaluable resource for those who are researching the earliest Californians.
The database offers free online access to baptism, marriage and burial records
for each of the California missions at the project's website, http://www.huntington.org/Information/ECPPmain.htm
The project has transcribed records on more than 101,000 baptisms, 27,000
marriages, and 71,000 burials performed in California between 1769 and 1850
and includes records from all 21 of the California missions, the Los Angeles
Plaza Church and the Santa Barbara Presidio. Data entry on the project was completed
in June 2006, just eight years after the project's inception in 1998.
The website offers step-by-step instructions for conducting basic and advanced
searches of this extensive database. What an incredible resource for historians,
genealogists and others who are researching the settlement of early California!
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