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Projects

• Ventura County CAGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Ventura County History and Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)

Adjacent counties

• Kern County, CA  to the north
• Los Angeles County, CA  to the east
• San Luis Obispo County, CA  to the northwest
• Santa Barbara County, CA  to the west

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence (13)

Cemeteries (10)

Census Records and Indexes (11)

Court and Legal Records

• Ventura County Sheriff's Department  Deparment History

Directories

• Ojai Valley Directory  1938     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Ventura County Telephone Directories      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Ventura County Voter Registrations  1900-1944     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

History (32)

Immigration and Naturalization Records

• California Passenger Lists, 1893-1957  includes Ventura     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Introduction and Guides

• Cyndi's List of California locality links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)
• Ventura County      (Source: Histopolis Collaborative Genealogy & History)
• Ventura County      (Source: CinnamonToast Genealogy)
• Ventura County California Genealogy  Resources for Family History Research     (Source: Kindred Trails)
• Ventura County Records      (Source: The Records Project)
• Ventura County Resources      (Source: RootsWeb)
• Ventura Genealogy      (Source: GenDir)

Land Records

• California Federal Land Records      (Source: USGenWeb California Archives)
• Land Patent Search      (Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office)
• Ventura County Land Patents      (Source: California GLO/BLM Land Patents)

Libraries, Museums, Archives (20)

Lookups

• Ventura County Books      (Source: Books-We-Own)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)
• Ventura County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Ventura County, CA Club      (Source: GenCircles)

• CA-CVGS-CIG-L Conejo Valley Genealogical Society, Computer Interest Group

  • CA-CVGS-CIG-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • CA-CVGS-CIG-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • CA-CVGS-CIG-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

• CA-VCGS-L A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding the activities of the Ventura County (California) Genealogical Society

  • CA-VCGS-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • CA-VCGS-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • CA-VCGS-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

• CAVENTUR-L Ventura County genealogy

  • CAVENTUR-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • CAVENTUR-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • CAVENTUR-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

• SOCAL-L Southern California Genealogy

  • SOCAL-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • SOCAL-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • SOCAL-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers

• Tiger Map Server Browser 
• Ventura County      (Source: 1895 U.S. Atlas)
• Ventura County Gazetteer      (Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System)
• Ventura County Post Offices 
• Ventura County Postal Covers      ($)
• Ventura County Topo Maps and Aerial Photos      (Source: Trails.com)
• Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, and San Diego Counties  1896     (Source: David Rumsey Map Collection)

Military Records and Histories

• Camp Seaside      (Source: The California State Military Museum)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Ventura County, California     (Source: Internet Archive)
• NAS Point Mugu, California History      (Source: United States Navy Patrol Squadrons)
• Naval Air Weapons Station, Point Mugu  (Naval Air Station, Point Mugu;Naval Air Missile Test Center; Pacific Missile Range, Naval Missile Center; Pacific Missile Test Center; Channel Islands Air National Guard Base)     (Source: The California State Military Museum)
• Naval Auxiliary Air Station, San Nicolas Island  (Naval Outlying Field, San Nicholas Island)     (Source: The California State Military Museum)
• Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Ventura County  (Mira Loma Flight Academy)     (Source: The California State Military Museum)
• Naval Construction Battalion Center, Port Hueneme      (Source: The California State Military Museum)

• World War I

  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Ventura County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• World War II

  • Tactical Battery 2      (Source: The California State Military Museum)
  • Tactical Battery 3  (Camp Rousseau; Military Training Area, Oxnard Shores)     (Source: The California State Military Museum)
  • Ventura County, California  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)

Miscellaneous Data

• Migrations through Ventura County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)
• Ventura County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Ventura County Records      (Source: Find County Records)

Newspaper Records

• Press-Courier (Oxnard, California)  1959-1977     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Ventura County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records (16)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• California--Ventura County--Nyland.  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Historical Postcards of Ventura County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Mission San Buenaventura 
• Oxnard  Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Penny Postcards from California      (Source: USGenWeb California Archives)
• Southern California      (Source: Magic Lantern Slides - The Berkeley Geography Collection)
• Ventura County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)

School Records and Histories

• California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks  Historic Campus Architecture Project
• The Early Day History of the Santa Clara School 
• Moorpark College History 
• Simi Valley School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• The Students of Southern California  from yearbooks and rosters at least 50 years old!
• Ventura School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Societies (10)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (35)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Ventura County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Patents  Ventura County, California     (Source: Google Patents)
• Ventura County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• The Ventura River Project  Bureau of Reclamation History Program

Vital Records

• Ventura County      (Source: Pre-1905 CA Death Index Project)
• Ventura County Births      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Ventura County Marriage Records      (Source: GenWed.com)
• Ventura County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)

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