Butte County Library resources to help with your genealogy research:
Microfilm  |  Obituaries & Records  |  Historical Butte County City Directories, in a partnership with CSU, Chico

The Internet Archive

Our Internet Archive web page is part of the California Revealed project of the California Preservation Program. In 2017, with grant funding provided by the California State Library, and in partnership with the Butte County Historical Society, the Butte County Library was able to upload 226 historic photo images, 42 audio files of oral history interviews, 1 movie and the searchable text of an 1878 business and residential directory that covers 7 Northern California counties.

Organizations Maintaining Butte County History/Genealogy Collections:

Butte County Historical Society
1749 Spencer Avenue
Mailing address: PO Box 2195
Oroville , CA 95966
530.533.9418

Paradise Genealogical Society
5587 Scottwood Road
Mailing address: PO Box 460
Paradise, CA 95967
530.877.2330

Meriam Library Special Collections
California State University, Chico
Meriam Library 305
Chico, CA 95929
530.898.6342
Offers Historical Butte County City Directories online in PDF format.

Yankee Hill Historical Society
11666 Concow Rd,
Yankee Hill, CA 95965
530.533.4132

Free Online Genealogy Resources:

• California Digital Newspaper Collection is a project for the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research at the University of California at Riverside.
• RootsWeb - Comprehensive set of free resources 
• WorldConnect Project- Search family trees, including 480 million names 
• USGenWeb - State by state resource listings 
• GenForum - Connect to others searching a surname or location 
• Cyndi's List - Categorized & cross-referenced index to genealogical resources 
• Search immigration records - Ellis Island and Castle Garden (pre-Ellis Island) immigration records. 
• Find a Grave- Search grave and cemetery records.
• Interment.Net - Search for cemetery records
• Chronicling America - Library of Congress site about historic American newspapers 
• FamilySearch.org - Family history and genealogy records 
• U.S. Board on Geographic Names - Federal organization that maintains standard place names 
• National Archives and Records Administration - Archive of Federal documents, including census records. Find locations and holdings of the National Archives
• Durham California's Preserved and Digitized Media