Are you stumped? We can help! The California History Room librarians have spent hundreds of hours developing research guides for specific California topics. You can see our current guides below. If you cannot find a guide to the topic you are researching or if you still have questions, please contact us.
- Contra Costa County (PDF)
- Latin Americans in California (PDF)
- Richmond (PDF)
- African Americans in California (PDF)
- California Fiction (PDF)
- California in the 1960's (PDF)
- California Native Americans (PDF)
- California Oddities (PDF)
- California Poetry (PDF)
- California Wine (PDF)
- Chinese Americans in California (PDF)
- Guide to the collection (PDF)
- Japanese Americans in California (PDF)
- Horses and Horse Racing in California (PDF)
- Images of California (PDF)
- Latin Americans in California (PDF)
- Mining in California (PDF)
- Oil in California (PDF)
- Portuguese Americans in California (PDF)
- Railroads in California (PDF)
- Remote Access: Vital Statistics and Indexes (PDF)
- Resources for researching California land grants (PDF)
- Ships and Shipping in California (PDF)
- Wildflowers in California (PDF)
- Women in California (PDF)
- Water in California (PDF)
- Alameda County (PDF)
- Alpine County (PDF)
- Amador County (PDF)
- Butte County (PDF)
- Calaveras County (PDF)
- Colusa County (PDF)
- Contra Costa County (PDF)
- Fair Oaks (PDF)
- Folsom (PDF)
- Latin Americans in California (PDF)
- Resources for researching Sacramento buildings (PDF)
- Resources for researching the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire (PDF)
- Richmond (PDF)
- Sutter's Fort Character Guide (PDF)
- Tulare County (PDF)
- Tuolumne County (PDF)
- Ventura County (PDF)
- Visalia County (PDF)
- Yolo County (PDF)
- Yuba County (PDF)
- African Americans in California (PDF)
- California Native Americans (PDF)
- Chinese Americans in California (PDF)
- Genealogy resources by date (PDF)
- Selected Genealogy Resources (PDF)
- Immigration and naturalization resources in the California History Room (PDF)
- Japanese Americans in California (PDF)
- Latin Americans in California (PDF)
- Portuguese Americans in California (PDF)
- Remote Access: Vital Statistics and Indexes (PDF)
- Women in California (PDF)
- Using federal census resources in the California History Room (PDF)
- Using the 1852 California state census in the California History Room (PDF)
