Archival Collections at Sonoma County Library

Scope and Contents

Per the most recent retention schedule (adopted 2008 December 9), this file classed as part of the series: Indigents (BDSU-0330). Records in this series are described as: Records track county’s dealings with indigents. Includes: applications for relief, allowance books, petitions, burial records, records of orphans receiving funds, reports, etc. (1857-1950). Records are no longer created.

Scope and Contents

Per the most recent retention schedule (adopted 2008 December 9), this file classed as part of the series: Indigents (BDSU-0330). Records in this series are described as: Records track county’s dealings with indigents. Includes: applications for relief, allowance books, petitions, burial records, records of orphans receiving funds, reports, etc. (1857-1950). Records are no longer created.

Scope and Contents

Per the most recent retention schedule (adopted 2008 December 9), this file classed as part of the series: Indigents (BDSU-0330). Records in this series are described as: Records track county’s dealings with indigents. Includes: applications for relief, allowance books, petitions, burial records, records of orphans receiving funds, reports, etc. (1857-1950). Records are no longer created.

Scope and Contents

Per the most recent retention schedule (adopted 2008 December 9), this file classed as part of the series: Indigents (BDSU-0330). Records in this series are described as: Records track county’s dealings with indigents. Includes: applications for relief, allowance books, petitions, burial records, records of orphans receiving funds, reports, etc. (1857-1950). Records are no longer created.

Scope and Contents

Per the most recent retention schedule (adopted 2008 December 9), this file classed as part of the series: Indigents (BDSU-0330). Records in this series are described as: Records track county’s dealings with indigents. Includes: applications for relief, allowance books, petitions, burial records, records of orphans receiving funds, reports, etc. (1857-1950). Records are no longer created.

Scope and Contents

Per the most recent retention schedule (adopted 2008 December 9), this file classed as part of the series: Indigents (BDSU-0330). Records in this series are described as: Records track county’s dealings with indigents. Includes: applications for relief, allowance books, petitions, burial records, records of orphans receiving funds, reports, etc. (1857-1950). Records are no longer created.

Abstract Record shows name, residence, sex, married or single, age, nativity, name of persons with whom petitioner lives, where said person resides, relatives or not, petitioner asks to be placed on the Indigent List for the following reasons, property or estate, habits of sobriety, money received by petitioner from other sources than county, allowance per month, no. of months drawn (when commenced), total amt. (when ended). Listed in the 1980 inventory of the Sonoma County Clerk's office as no....

Abstract

Records track county’s dealings with indigents. Includes: applications for relief, allowance books, petitions, burial records, records of orphans receiving funds, reports, etc. (1857-1950). Records are no longer created.

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Record of burial of Civil War veterans at County expense. Record shows name; rank (sometimes Company); occupation; nativity; date of entry and date of discharge from service; date, place and cause of death; where buried; if member of G.A.R.; expense of burial; remarks. Listed in the 1980 inventory of the Sonoma County Clerk's office as no. 550.

Abstract Record of Orphans (Outside Hospital Only) receiving county funds; pages 1-9, Half Orphans; page 10, Whole Orphans. Record shows Name; Sex; Age when support commenced; When support ended; Place of birth; Names of persons with whom they have lived during this half year; Where said persons reside; Are the children relatives or not of the persons with whom they have lived this half year? If so, what relationship? Why supported by the County? Property or Estate, if any; Habits of sobriety? Money...