San Joaquin County, California Genealogy

United States &gt; California &gt; San Joaquin County

Parent County
1850--San Joaquin was created 18 February 1850 as an original county. County seat: Stockton

Neighboring Counties

 * Alameda
 * Amador
 * Calaveras
 * Contra Costa
 * Sacramento
 * Santa Clara
 * Stanislaus

Cemeteries
Cherokee Memorial Park Hwy 99 E Harney Lane Lodi, CA 95240 209-334-9613

Park View Cemetery 3661 E. French Camp Rd. Manteca, CA 95336 209-982-1661

San Joaquin Catholic Cemetery Cemetery Lane Stockton, CA 209-466-6202

Stockton Rural Cemetery 2350 Cemetery Lane Stockton, CA 95204 209-465-5213

The following web sites have entries for people buried in Placer County. None have complete lists:


 * Find A Grave
 * Interment.Net
 * USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project section for Placer County

In the Family History Library Catalog Place Search on FamilySearch, for Placer, California, look at the list of records for Cemeteries. Films can be sent to family history centers. Public libraries may have copies of the books or can obtain them through Interlibrary Loan.

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Stockton
 * Tracy

Maps
For historical maps,search the following free sites:

• Maps-Historical-Sate of California, the Carlifornia government's site. Links to American Memory (Library of Congress), California Missions, and the State Library

• Historical Maps of California

• California Maps - HSU Library, also lists and links to gazetteers

• David Rumsey Collection for San Joaquin, California

• Perry-Castaneda Map Collection for California

Military
The California State Military Museum has a great deal of historical information and links to other military web sites.

Ancestry.com has Records of California men in the War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1867

Vital Records
For early marriages see Western States Marriage Index.

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Family History Library Catalog