Society Digital Collections
City Directories
In addition to the digitized directories below, the Sahyun Genealogical Library has on its shelves printed directories from 1886 through 1991 which cover many of the same cities plus Santa Maria and Lompoc. Search the Sahyun Genealogical Library Catalog for “Santa Barbara City Directories” for more city directories.
Santa Barbara Phone Book 1933
162 pages...
View PDFSanta Barbara Phone Book 1926
128 pages ...
View PDFSanta Barbara Business Directory 1922
21 pages...
View PDFSanta Barbara City Directory 1895-1896
89 pages...
View PDFSanta Barbara City Directory 1886
152 pages...
View PDFSanta Barbara Great Register 1877
38 pages...
View PDFGoleta City Directory 1941
60 pages...
View PDFGoleta City Directory 1939
85 pages...
View PDFOther Collections
It’s been a huge undertaking to digitize and index the thousands of records that the Society has amassed over the years for inclusion in our database. The following resources are not in the database, but are viewable here as PDF files.
1850 Census Transcription
This PDF of 69 pages of typewritten lists includes handwritten annotations clarifying many names that...
View PDFVFW PVT. John Thomas Hall Post 1649: Members (1929 – 1997)
PDF of 3 pages of typewritten records; 1 page of list of charter members, not...
View PDFMarriage Records of Thomas Poole Justice of Peace (1928 – 1935)
PDF of 65 pages from typewritten ledger, chronological order; followed by 13 pages of typewritten...
View PDFDudley Hoffman Mortuary Burials (1912 – 1925)
PDF of 27 pages of typewritten records, alphabetical order by surname; includes date of death,...
View PDFCalvary Cemetery Interments (1913 –1927)
Listed by surname with age, date and cause of death, birthplace, city of last residence,...
View PDFSanta Barbara Deaths (1896 – 1905)
PDF of 38 pages of typewritten records, alphabetical order by surname; includes age, race, marital...
View PDFSanta Barbara Newspaper Extracts Index 1868-1875
PDF of 78 pages, typewritten; alphabetical listings of names with type and description of notice,...
View PDFFirst Families of California
PDF of typewritten, non-alphabetical list of the first Spanish residents in California; index in front;...
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