Searls Library: Sample of Materials
BOOKS--SMALL SAMPLE |
California 1850 Census Index,Jackson, Teeples. |
History of Nevada County California with Illustrations, 1880, Thompson & West, (with separate indexes prepared by Comstock). |
History of Placer and Nevada Counties, California, Lardner and Brock, 1924. |
"Records of California Men in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1867" by Orton-- Index (Personal Names) Carlyle Parker. |
No Depression Here, by Gage McKinney -- history of Nevada County in the Depression Era |
The French Connection or The French in Nevada County California, Janicot. |
Directories for Nevada County: 1856, 1867 |
Nevada County Mining and Business Directory 1895, John Edmund Poingdestre. |
ORIGINAL OFFICIAL RECORDS OF NEVADA COUNTY |
Will Books |
Original case files of the Searls Law Firm from 1850': Civil and criminal. |
Great Register, County of Nevada, 1866. |
Great Register, County of Nevada, 1896. |
BOOK COLLECTIONS |
Local histories for Nevada County |
California emigrant trail--large collection of books on the |
MANUSCRIPT AND MAP COLLECTIONS |
Donner emigrant party trail in Nevada County--original documents reports on mapping the trail through Nevada County |
Overland emigrant and miner diaries-- collection of original and transcribed journals |
General Land Office Township maps from BLM--complete collection of for Nevada County |
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Nevada City, Grass Valley and Truckee |
Original Townsite maps for Grass Valley and Nevada City showing names or property owners. (Nevada City online at this website) |
Pioneer Genealogy files (submitted by descendants of Nevada County Pioneers |
PERIODICALS |
California Historical Society Quarterly collection |
Nevada County Historical Society Quarterly--complete collection |
DIGITAL INDEXES TO LIBRARY HOLDINGS |
Index to Nevada County Mining records from published sources (on computer) |
Index to historical photo collection (on computer) |
Index to historical lmaps (on computer) |
MISCELLANEOUS INDEXES TO LIBRARY HOLDINGS |
Kitts Index to property records (actual records in books at Nevada County Recorder or on film at Foley Library |
Large collection of Title Abstracts (index on computer) |
Nevada County Cemetery Records Index |
Nevada County Probate Index 1856-1989 (Records on film at Foley Library) |
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