Books (offline) (California Spanish)

Specific publications that include California Spanish families:

• Bancroft, Hubert Howe. The History of California, Pioneer Register and Index [extracted from History of California, 7 volumes; originally published 1884-90]. Regional Publishing Co.; Baltimore, MD, 1964; reprinted for Clearfield Company Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1990.

• Bowman, Lynn. Los Angeles: Epic of a City . Howell-North Books, Copyright 1974 by Howell-North Books, Berkeley, California, ISBN: 0-8310-7109-5.

• Bandy, Marcy and Maurice. Saddleback Ancestors: Rancho Families of Orange County California , Revised Edition. Orange County California Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 1587, Orange, California 92856-1587, 1998.

• Carrillo, Leo. The California I Love . Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Copyright 1961 by Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J.

• Castro, Doris Shaw. California colony : genealogy, land grants, & notes of Spanish colonial California. Bloomington, Indiana : AuthorHouse, 2004.

• Cosio, Gregory D. Las Californias : a notebook of history and genealogy. El Monte, California : G.D. Cosio, 2011.

• Crosby, Harry W. Gateway to Alta California . Sunbelt Publications, El Cajon, CA , 2003.

• Dakin, Susanna Bryant. A Scotch Paisano in Old Los Angeles: Hugo Reid's Life in California, 1832 - 1852, Derived from His Correspondence . University of California Press, Copyright 1939, by the Regents of the University of California, First Paperback Printing 1978, ISBN: 0-520-03717-0.
  • “ . . . When Reid first entered the Pueblo of Los Angeles in 1832 it was a sleepy, mud-colored place of one-story adobes built with little regard for planning . . . Settling nearby at Mission San Gabriel, Reid became a Mexican citizen and a Catholic, in order to own property and marry a Californian . . . a charming, readable recreation of the life in early California and its transition from a pastoral Mexican territory to an American state . . .”

• Diego Felipe y Tomas de Soberanes Memorial Foundation. Genealogy of the members of the Juan Bautista de Anza 1775-76 expedition. San Jose, California, 1997.

• Garner, Bess Adams. Windows in an Old Adobe . Progress-Bulletin, Pomona, California (in collaboration with: Saunders Press, Claremont, California, 1939) Copyright 1939, by Bess Adams Garner.
  
  • “Intimate pictures of old California family life - idyllic days on the Rancho San Jose' - the passing of one day - one age - one civilization and the rising of another . . . those who lived within the walls of Palomares adobe ranch house . . . ” (Includes genealogical tables for: Palomares; Higuera; Machado; Alvarado; Vejar; Reyes; et. al.)

• Mason, William M. Los Angeles Under The Spanish Flag, Spain's New World . Southern California Genealogical Society, California, 2004.
  
  • “Produced as a complement to Northrop's Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California: 1769-1850, Vol III .”

• Mason, William M. The census of 1790 : a demographic history of colonial California . Menlo Park, California : Ballena Press, 1998.

• McCarthy, Francis Florence. The history of Mission San Jose, California, 1797-1835 : with an epilogue covering the period from 1835 to 1855 . Fresno, California : Academy Library Guild, 1958.

• Moffat, Lorraine (Lorraine Cottrell). California mission records, 1778-1912 : translated by Ramon Felipe Preciado . Hesperia, California : L. Moffat, 1998.

• Mutnick, Dorothy Gittinger. Some Alta California Pioneers and Descendants, Vols 1-5. Contra Costa County Historical Society, California, 1989.

• Mutnick, Dorothy Gittinger. Some California Poppies and Even a Few Mommies, Volume I . Contra Costa: Contra Costa County Historical Society, California, 1980.

• Mutnick, Dorothy Gittinger. Some California Poppies and Even a Few Mommies, Volume II . Contra Costa: Contra Costa County Historical Society, California, 1981.

• Northrop, Marie E. Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California: 1769-1850, Volume I . Southern California Genealogical Society, Burbank, California. Copyright 1986. Volume I published 1976, reprinted 1999.

• Northrop, Marie E. Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California: 1769-1850, Vol II. Southern California Genealogical Society, Burbank, California. Copyright 1986. Volume II published 1984, reprinted 1999.

• Northrop, Marie E. Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California: 1769-1850, Vol III. Southern California Genealogical Society, Burbank, California.

• Ohles, Wallace V. The Lands of Mission San Miguel . Word Dancer Press, 950 N.Van Ness, Fresno, CA 93728, In Association with The Friends of the Adobes, Inc. P.O. Box 326, San Miguel, CA 93451, 1997.

• Ontiveros, Erlinda Pertusi. San Ramon Chapel Pioneers and Their California Heritage . Editors - Jim and Lynne Norris. Olive Press Publications, Box 99, Los Olivos, California 93441, 1990.

• Pitt, Leonard. The Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1846 - 1890 . University of California Press, Copyright 1966 by the Regents of the University of California. ISBN: 0-520-01019-1 (cloth), ISBN: 0-520-01637-8 (paper).
  
  • “ . . . focuses on the circumstances that caused the native-born Californians, or Californios, to lose numerical supremacy, land, political influence, and cultural dominance, and become a disadvantages social group. It is the story of the decline but no less of the . . . perseverance of a subgroup which in the twentieth century was transformed into the largest minority in the Far West - the Mexican-Americans.”

• Poett, A. Dibblee. Rancho San Julian: The Story of a California Ranch and Its People . Fithian Press - Santa Barbara Historical Society - Santa Barbara - 1991 Copyright 1991 by A. Dibblee Poett ISBN: 0-931832-71-3 (Families of Jose Antonio Julian de la Guerra; Robert Dibblee and Dr. Joseph Henry Poett.)

• Schuetz-Miller, Mardith K. Building and Builders in Hispanic California, 1769-1850 . Southwestern Mission Research Center, Tucson, Arizona. A Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, Presidio Research Publication, Santa Barbara, California, 1994.

• Temple, Thomas Workman, II. An alphabetized listing of the California Mission vital records. Salt Lake City, Utah : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1985.

• Temple, Thomas Workman. Genealogical tables of Spanish and Mexican families of California. 1940?

• Wittenburg, Sister Mary Ste. Therese. The Machados and Rancho La Ballona: The Story of the Land and its Ranchero , Jose Agustin Antonio Machado; With a Genealogy of the Machado Family“ Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, 1973;
  Copyright 1973 by Sisters of Notre Dame of Los Angeles, California, Inc.
  ISBN: 0-87093-164-4.