San Bernardino County, California Genealogy

History and Tidbits
San Bernardino County is presently the largest county in terms of geographic area within the United States. The county seat is the city of San Bernardino which is also the county's largest in terms of population, and that city lies in the southwest corner of the county.

Other communities include Victorville, Apple Valley, Barstow, Redlands, and numerous other suburbs around San Bernardino.

San Bernardino itself was founded by settlers sent by Brigham Young in the 1850s, but they left when the matter known as the 'Utah War' erupted back in Utah.

The larger communities will have many of the records of interest to family historians.

San Bernardino itself will have many county-maintained and collected records.

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