California, Solano County Genealogical Society, Burial Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
This collection was compiled by the Solano Genealogical Society and includes information from various cemeteries in Solano County, California. Microfilm of the files located at the Solano County Genealogical Society, Fairfield, California.

The Ancestor File is a card index arranged alphabetically by surname giving the person's name with birth, marriage and death dates and places, names of spouses, and date when settled in Solano County. Also includes Society members file numbers and addresses. An additional file for non-members of the Society is also included. The Solano County Cemetery Index was an on-going project created by members of The Solano County Genealogical Society, Inc.

References on the index cards refer to the following cemeteries and funeral homes: • 3

What Can These Records Tell Me?
The following information may be found in these records:
 * Person's name
 * Birth date
 * Death date
 * Spouse's name

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 * The approximate date of the event

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 * Remember that spelling was generally not standardized until the early part of the 20th century

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FamilySearch Catalog

 * Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, Your Guide to Cemetery Research. Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 2002 FS Library 973 V37c
 * Ancestor listing, 1985-1986, by the Solano County Genealogical Society, Inc.Fairfield, California : Solano County Genealogical Society (California), 1986 FS Library 979.452 D22s
 * Cordell Cowart, comp.  Solano County, California 1993 pioneer file index Fairfield, California : Solano County Genealogical Society (California), c1993 FS Library 979.4 A1 no. 167
 * Solano County Genealogical Society pioneer file, 1860-1910, 10 rolls
 * J. P. Munro Fraser, History of Solano County San Francisco : Wood, Alley & Co., 1879. reprint. Fairfield, California : James Stevenson, Pub., c1994 FS Library 979.452 H2m
 * Index to various cemeteries ; includes a few funeral homes in Solano County, earliest to present (ca. 1996?)
 * Ruth Setterquist, Rosalie S. (Neall) Cunningham, Dolores (Vega) McLean, Michael J. Hayes, and Richard Boyer, comps. Solano County cemeteries. 5 v. Fairfield, California : Solano County Genealogical Society (California), c1986-2001 FS Library 979.452 V3s]
 * Solano County Genealogical Society. Deaths/probates/wills, ca. 1857-1910
 * Record of burial of ex-Union soldiers, sailors, and Marines

FamilySearch Historical Records

 * California Cemetery Transcriptions, 1850-1960

FamilySearch Digital Library

 * Cordell Cowart, comp. Resources at the library of the Solano County Genealogical Society Inc., December 1992 Fairfield, California : Solano County Genealogical Society (California), c1994
 * Solano County Genealogical Society, comp. 1900 United States census index, Solano County, California Fairfield, California : Solano County Genealogical Society (California), c2000

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