Genealogy Projects tagged with California on the Geni Family Tree

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  • Santa Clara University

    Wikipedia Santa Clara University (also referred to as Santa Clara) is a private non-profit Jesuit university located in Santa Clara, California. It has 5,435 full-time undergraduate students, and 3,335 graduate students. Founded in 1851, Santa Clara University is the oldest operating institution of higher learning in California and has remained in its original location for 164 years. The univer...

  • Hillside Memorial Park, Culver City, California

    For more than 80 years, Hillside Memorial Park has provided members of the Jewish community the means to honor and remember their loved ones in beauty, tranquility and the comfort of Jewish traditions. Throughout history, the foundations of a Jewish community have always been built with a cemetery, a school and a synagogue. Hillside is a community service of Temple Israel of Hollywood, and is ...

  • San Francisco National Cemetery

    Wikipedia San Francisco National Cemetery is a U.S. National Cemetery, located in the Presidio of San Francisco, California. Find a Grave

  • Santa Barbara Cemetery

    This project is for those who are buried in Santa Barbara, California. List of Notable Interments Official Website Find a Grave

  • Hayward, California

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hayward, Alameda County, California. Official Website History Wikipedia In the 19th century, the land that is now Hayward became part of Rancho San Lorenzo, a Spanish land grant to Guillermo Castro, in 1841. The site of his home was on the former El Camino Viejo, or Castro Street (now Mission Boulevard) between C and D Streets,...

  • Hanford Cemetery, Hanford, California

    This cemetery is located on 10500 South Tenth Avenue, Hanford, Kings County, California. Find a Grave Billion Graves

  • Place projects

    Place projects are projects on Geni that are focused of a specific geographical place or region. Places profiles are also the precursor to the upcoming Place Profiles feature. Place project portals Includes countries and kingdoms, and other top level place project. Geographical Australia Canada Europe Al-Andalus Austro-Hungarian-Empire Belarus Czech Republic-Bohemia Croatia

  • El Carmelo Cemetery, Pacific Grove, California

    El Carmelo Cemetery is located at the north east corner of Lighthouse and Asilomar Avenues, directly across from the Pt. Pinos Lighthouse. The cemetery grounds are open from dawn until dusk. El Carmelo Cemetery has been part of Pacific Grove's history since the 1800s. For nearly two centuries the City has maintained and cherished this final resting place. The oldest section of the cemetery has...

  • Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, California

    Calvary Cemetery | Calvary Mortuary (FD1681) is among the oldest and largest cemeteries in Los Angeles, and it is minutes from the heart city. On the gently rolling parkland are the Stations of the Cross, placed at intervals along the main drive, prayed on Sundays in Lent and in November. Calvary’s spacious mortuary (18,000 square feet) features three large visitation rooms, four private arrang...

  • Memory Garden Memorial Park, Brea, California

    This project is for those who are buried in Memory Garden Memorial Park, Brea, Orange County, California. Notable Interments Norma Zimmer (1923-2011) - Singer Links Official Website Find a Grave

  • Heaven’s Gate

    The suicides took place over the course of three days. Though the 39 dead members of the cult were found on Wednesday, March 26th, 1997, coroner’s reports showed that the suicides were far from simultaneous. The members killed themselves starting Sunday using a combination of phenobarbital, alcohol and hydrocodone, probably consumed with apple sauce or pudding. The members then put plastic bags...

  • Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, California

    This project is for those interred in Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California.Located on 300 Curtner Avenue, it has also been known as Pioneer Cemetery & San Jose Town Cemetery .The cemetery's origins date back to 1839, during the Mexican period of California, when city officials of the Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe began to bury the dead on the northern side of the S...

  • Grace Cathedral Columbarium, San Francisco, California

    The columbarium is NOT open to the public. Visitors must call ahead for an appointment to gain access to the columbarium. The Columbarium is located in the consecrated Chapel of Saint Francis on the second level of the Cathedral's bell tower, where it will be maintained in perpetuity. Acquisition of a Columbarium space includes a committal service in the chapel as well as the opportunity for ...

  • Rose Hills Memorial Park,Whittier, Los Angeles County, California, 90601 USA

    Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles County, California, 90601 USA: Find a Grave Rose Hills claims to be "the single largest memorial park in the world," at approximately 1400 acres. To aid your search when you visit, make a note of all the burial information provided in the online database search. Stop in at the Main Information front desk (not the little booth in the driveway)...

  • Pomona College

    Wikipedia Pomona College is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational, liberal arts college in Claremont, California, United States. It was founded in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" on the West Coast. In the 1920s, it became the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium as President James A. Blaisdell founded a system of ...

  • State of California

    This subportal is part of the USA Portal . == CALIFORNIA = "The Golden State" California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third most extensive (after Alaska and Texas). It is home to the nation's second- and sixth-largest census statistical areas (Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and San Francisco Bay Area), and eight of ...

  • Berkeley, California

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Berkeley County, California. Overview = Official Website =Berkeley (/ˈbɜːrkli/ BURK-lee) is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. Berkeley is home to the oldest campus in the University of Califo...

  • Fontana, California

    This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Fontana, San Bernardino, California. Official Website Fontana is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Founded by Azariel Blanchard Miller in 1913, it remained essentially rural until World War II, when entrepreneur Henry J. Kaiser built a large steel mill in the area. It is now a regional hub of the trucking indu...

  • Glenn County, California

    Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in Glenn County, California. Glenn County is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 28,917. The county seat is Willows. It is located in the Sacramento Valley, in the northern part of the California Central Valley. The Grindstone Rancheria, reservation of the Grindstone Indian Ranche...

  • Grandview Memorial Park, Glendale, California

    Grand View Memorial Park and Crematory is a historic cemetery located in Glendale, California, in the United States. Established in 1884 as Glendale Cemetery, it changed its name to Grand View Memorial Park in 1919. The cemetery was the focus of a scandal that began in 2005, during which the operators were accused of leaving thousands of cremated remains unburied. New owners changed the name to...

  • Glendale, California

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Glendale, California in Los Angeles County . Glendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States . Its estimated 2014 population was 200,167, making it the fourth-largest city in Los Angeles County and the 23rd-largest city in California. It is located about 8 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. Glendale lies in the...

  • Drexel University

    Wikipedia =Drexel University is a private research university with three campuses in Philadelphia and one in Sacramento, California. It was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a noted financier and philanthropist. As of 2015, more than 26,000 students are enrolled in over 70 undergraduate programs and more than 100 master's, doctoral, and professional programs at the university. Drexel's coop...

  • Gensaw Hill Cemetery, Requa, California

    This project is for those buried in Gensaw Hill Cemetery, Requa, Del Norte County, California. Find a Grave

  • Fullerton, California

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fullerton, California. Official Website Wikipedia History Fullerton was founded in 1887 and was named for George H. Fullerton, president of the Pacific Land and Improvement Company. Drilling for petroleum began in 1880 with the discovery of the Brea-Olinda Oil Field and fueled the first real boom, peaking in the 1920s. Constr...

  • Vallejo, Solano County, California

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Vallejo, California. Vallejo sits on the northeastern shore of San Pablo Bay, 30 miles north of San Francisco, the northwestern shore of the Carquinez Strait and the southern end of the Napa River, 15 miles south of Napa. The city is named after General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, a native Californio, leading proponent of California's...

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