International Genealogy Collection

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Santa Clara City Library

SCCHGS maintains a growing collection of genealogy and local history books, CD's, microfilm and microfiche, located at the Santa Clara City Central Library. Examples of our holdings are:

• Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
• Barbados Records
• Cherokee By Blood
• Colonial Families of the United States of America
• Czech Immigration Passenger Lists
• Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence
• 1840 Citizens of Texas
• 1890 Veterans Census Questionnaires (fiche + TN in book form)
• Emigration from the Russian Empire
• Encyclopedia of American Quaker Records
• Famine Immigrants
• Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files
• Genealogies of (state name) Families from various periodicals for:
• CT, PA, RI, MA, Mayflower, New England, Long Island, NJ, VA (3), KY (2)
• Genealogy and Local History Books in Print
• Genealogy Annual
• Georgia Black Book
• Germans to America
• Hathaway's Register (NC)
• Heritage Quest (Periodical), 1985 +
• Historical Southern Families
• Indiana Source Book
• Italians to America
• Maine Historical Magazine (book format)
• Maryland Calendar of Wills
• Missing Friends
• Missouri Pioneer and Missouri Miscellany + Index (Gone to Missouri)
• New England Historical and Genealogical Register (periodical - early years on film)
• Our French Canadian Ancestors
• Passenger and Immigration Lists Index
• PERSI (Periodical Source Index)
• Probate records of the Province of New Hampshire
• Residents of Texas, 1782-1836
• Rhode Island Genealogical Record (periodical and book formats)
• Roster of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865
• Scottish Nation, The
• Settlers of Beekman Patent (NY)
• Some Georgia County Records
• South Carolina Deed Abstracts
• South Carolina Genealogies
• South Carolina Marriages
• Tombstone Inscriptions from most Santa Clara Cemeteries (film)
• Virginia Colonial Abstracts
• Virginia Genealogist (periodical) + Index to Vols. 1-20 and Vols. 20-25
• Virginians and West Virginians, 1607-1870
• Visitation of England and Wales
• Wurttemberg Emigration Index
• Black Pioneers; Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier.
• Genealogical Resources of the Minnesota Historical Society, Minnesota Historical Society, 2nd edition.
• Printed Sources, Meyerick (new title from Ancestry.)
• Census Records for Latin America and the Hispanic United States, Platt  (includes Louisiana and Florida as well as the Southwestern states.)
• The Great War; A Guide to the Service Records of All the World's Fighting Men and Volunteers, Shaefer.
• New England Gazetteer, Hayward. 4th edition.