Welcome to the Sahyun Genealogical Library
SBCGS Local Records Database
Our database has thousands of entries for Barbara County birth, death, marriage, and naturalization records.
SBCGS Library Catalog
The Library’s entire book catalog is at your fingertips. Enter SBCGS as the library name if needed. No password is required.Conduct a simple keyword search, or look by title, author, subject, ISBN, ISSN, or collection.
Periodicals
We have numerous digital items located on our network drive here at the Sahyun. To access these. please browse to the shortcut on the desktop of this computer and look for “Digital Books.”
Digital Collections
We have numerous digital items located on our network drive here at the Sahyun. To access these. please browse to the shortcut on the desktop of this computer and look for “Digital Books.”
Premium Subscription Sites
The Ancestry Library edition has billions of names in thousands of genealogical databases throughout the world.
Provides access to many to many newspapers’ archives that are still under copyright with editions as recent as last month.
Search for obituaries, marriage announcements, birth announcements, social pages, local sports action, advertisements, news articles, and more in the largest online newspaper archive.
Fold3 is a collection of military records, stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served in the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War.
American Ancestors has more than 1.4 billion records spanning the US, the British Isles, continental Europe, and beyond.
Includes one of the most extensive online collections of early American genealogical records, the largest searchable collection of published genealogical research journals and magazines, and the only online source for records from Boston’s Catholic Archdiocese.
Findmypast hosts billions of searchable census, directory, and historical record information from the British Isles, Ireland, and 90% of North American birth, marriage and death records, starting from the early 1700s.
MyHeritage Library Edition is one of the largest, most internationally diverse genealogy databases of its kind. It contains billions of historical records from all over the world to support family history research.
It includes billions of historical documents from 48 countries, millions of historical photos, public records, indexes and additional resources that span the past five centuries. There are over 1,300 collections just for Europe alone. It is especially strong in Jewish records from Eastern Europe and Israel.
NewspaperArchive provides access to a collection of digitized newspapers from across the United States, with a particular strength in publications from the Midwestern region.
The archive’s holdings encompass articles dating back to 1607 and extending through 2024. Notably, the archive includes coverage of the Santa Barbara News-Press from 2005 to 2023, ensuring members can access local historical content conveniently.
ArkivDigital is Sweden’s largest and most extensive online archive of digitized original records and sources for genealogists.
This French-Canadian website includes baptism, marriage, and burial certificates of various types, dated from 1621 to 1849.
The Research Program in Historical Demography (PRDH) at the University of Montréal website has a computerized population register, composed of biographical files on all individuals of European ancestry who lived in the St. Lawrence Valley from the beginnings of French colonization in the seventeenth century. The file for each individual gives the date and place of birth, marriage(s), and death, as well as family and conjugal ties with other individuals. It includes some 2,400,000 certificates of various types, dated from 1621 to 1849. The vast majority correspond to the systematic extracting of information from records of baptisms, marriages, and burials that came from the parishes, missions, and Catholic institutions in Quebec that kept registers before 1850. Also available are 26,000 Protestant marriages recorded before 1850.
Free Genealogy Research Sites
Chronicling America is an open access, open source newspaper database and companion website.
Chronicling America is produced by the United States National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The NDNP was founded in 2005.
FamilySearch is a free online website with historical records, education, and software.
FamilySearch’s website has more than 13.3 billion searchable historical records of which over 5 billion have associated images. It also has a one-world collaborative family tree containing 1.5 billion entries.
FamilySearch’s mission is dedicated to preserving important family records and making them freely accessible online. It is operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and is closely connected with the church’s Family History Department.
Find a Grave is the best place on the internet to look for burial and other final disposition information for your family, friends, and famous people.
You’ll find details about cemeteries and individual memorials for many people buried in those cemeteries. Memorials generally include birth, death, and burial information and may include pictures, biographies, family information, and more.
The Huntington Library is one of the world’s great independent research libraries, with more than 11 million items spanning the 11th to the 21st century.
Linkpendium is a 10,000,000+ resource directory to everything on the Web about families worldwide and genealogically-relevant information about U.S. states and counties.
The Periodical Source Index, or PERSI, is the largest subject index to genealogy and local history periodical articles in the world, created by the staff of the Allen County Public Library Foundation and the ACPL’s Genealogy Center.
PERSI indexes articles in periodical titles (including defunct titles) published by thousands of local, state, national and international societies and organizations. It is arranged by surname or location and also by basic subject headings.