Marriages Index and Newspapers Index Completed!

We are pleased to announce the completion of two major projects:

The first is the result of diligent efforts on the part of volunteers Dianna Curtis, Tom Gorham, Rosemary Flamion, Edna and Ken Taylor, Phoebe Adams, Pat Bunyard, Kent Unsworth, and Martha Graham. The San Luis Obispo County 1850-1930 Marriage Index is finished - 10,267 marriages total!

The second project involved indexing all the names in a very old set of pages found when we moved from "the Tombs" at the Mission Medical Center. These typed pages were the work of Laura McAnallen many years ago, who abstracted data from local newspapers on microfilm. There are 5,562 names in the San Luis Obispo Newspapers index. Volunteers Dianna G Curtis and Kathy Nienhouse worked on this index.

Visit the San Luis Obispo County Marriages Index.

Visit the San Luis Obispo Newspapers Index.

Terrific job, SLOCGS volunteers!

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Vital Records Class

Last Friday Cheryl Storton and Cafi Cohen presented a session on Vital Records on the Internet at the Paso Robles Historical Society building. We demonstrated navigation and insider's tricks for finding vital records at: 

• Ancestry.com
• FamilySearch
• DeathIndexes.com
• Linkpendium
• USGenWeb

Remember the situation just 10 years ago? If you could not locate the record on LDS microfilm, getting a vital record out of many counties and states was either impossible or constrained by long waiting periods. That's still true in some cases. Fortunately, however, many counties and states are now making documnent images available instantly for free or nominal costs. Examples? Check out:

• Ohio Death Certificates, 1908-1953 at FamilySearch (be certain to register and login each time you use FamilySearch)
• Historical Cook County, Illinois Vital Records