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California State Genealogical Alliance

QHGS belongs to the California State Genealogical Alliance. Do you make good use of its online resources at the CSGA website?

Open the CSGA home page at http://www.csga.com/ and click on the word “California”  to access statewide resources.

Do you want research instruction? Go to the menu bar and select “CA Research Aid.” You will see 12 links to open for more help: California Counties, Statewide Research, California Wiki, CA Research Guide—Intro, Birth and Marriage Research, Death Research, Directories, Land Research, Library Research, Maps, Naturalization Records, and Newspaper Research.

Interested in a specific county? Click the county of your choice on the state map, and you will find information about the county itself as well as links to libraries, archives, newspapers, maps, land records, vital records, and genealogical societies in that county.

Don't overlook the CSGA Blog at http://www.csga.com/Blog/. It has current genealogical news, links to many otther genealogical society blogs, and a wonderful series of illustrated articles called “FDR’s Alphabet Soup, Records of the Great Depression,” by Cath Madden Trindle.

RESEARCH TIP:  If your ancestors came to California from another state (and chances are, they did!), be sure to look for unusual resources listed on that state’s genealogical society website. For example, the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society and the Illinois State Genealogical Society offer free webinars for everyone—not just for their own members—and many of the webinars focus on genealogy problems and opportunities researching in that particular state.