Napa County Lookups

Lookup Help


Guidelines For Requesting Lookups

Feel free to request a look-up from the generous volunteers listed in this section.
These wonderful helpers provide their time and effort for free.
However, they can reasonably expect that you reimburse them for costs they incur for such things as photocopying or postage.

Please use the following guidelines when making your request:

  • Please DON'T ask the volunteer to do more than they have offered to do.
  • Limit your request to one or two items or names. Be considerate of the volunteer's time.
  • Put the words "Napa County Lookup" in the subject line of your request.
  • In the first line of the message please put the name of the book or type of record from which you are requesting the lookup.
  • If you have a spam filter, either turn it off or add the volunteer's email address to accept your email!
  • Please thank the volunteer for their time!

Volunteers are wanted and appreciated!!

If you own or have access to records and books relating to Napa County and are willing to do look-ups, please contact us.

Any source relating to Napa County history or it's families is wanted!

    Do you have:
  • Books on Napa County history or residents?
  • Old school yearbooks or class pictures with names?
  • An old family Bible with Napa County names and dates?
  • Old club membership rosters?
  • Back issues of old monthly neighborhood newsletters?
  • Diaries, letters, journals, scrapbooks?
  • Old phone books or directories?

Please share them with us by offering to look up a name for someone.

Tell us about the Napa County resource you'd like to share!

(We will be happy to list any type of limits to what you would be willing to do next to your name.
If you only want to do lookups on the third Tuesday of every other month, that's fine!
We wouldn't want to have any volunteer feel overburdened.)


Index of Napa County Lookup Offers

  • California Birth (1905-10) and Death Indexes
    Email your lookup request to Dawn Owings.
  • Censuses for 1860 - 1930, Napa County.
    Email your lookup request to Dawn Owings.
  • History of Napa and Lake Counties, California - (San Francisco, Calif.: Slocum, Bowen & Co., 1881)
    Email your lookup request to Dawn Owings.
  • History of Solano and Napa Counties, California - (Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic Record Co., 1912)
    Email your lookup request to Dawn Owings.
  • Napa city and county portfolio and directory. H.A. Darms, 1908.
    Subtitled "photographic reproductions of picturesque Napa county views, showing some of its mountains, valleys and dales, its orchards, vineyards and fruits, its homes, churches and schools, stores, factories, etc."
    Email your lookup request to Sue Clover



Other Resources

    Consider some of these wonderful resources:
  • Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness- is another group of lookup volunteers who provide help all over the country.  In return for this help, you are asked to do one lookup per month in your own area for another researcher. There are currently several volunteers listed for Napa County.
  • Books We Own - is a list of resources owned or accessible by people willing to look up genealogical information for others.
  • NORCAL Lookup Library - has many lookup offers for numerous Northern California resources, all offered by generous volunteers.
  • Obituary Lookup Volunteers - a group of volunteers to lookup obituaries.
  • Genealogy Look Up Forum - a group of volunteers for births, cemeteries, deaths, marriages.
  • Request Napa County Data From Evalou - "Evalou will receive your query for obituaries, marriage records, land records, probate records, and cemetery lookups from Napa Co., California, from any time period that she can access. Evalou also has City Directories and Great Registers."



Mailing Lists

    Consider some of these wonderful resources:
    There are also specific mailing lists that have volunteers for that specific resource:
  • CA-CENSUS-LOOKUP-L - for people who will look up census records for California.
  • CA-DEATH-INDEX-L - for people who will lookup dates of death in the California Death Index (CADI) as well as obits and certificate transcriptions.

*Before you take advantage of any volunteer resources, please be willing to return the favor.   Remember that every one of these wonderful volunteers are taking time from their OWN research to do YOU a favor.
We will all benefit if we're all willing to pass those favors along to somone else.

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This Web page is sponsored on behalf of the California portion of The USGenWeb Project by Richard S. Wilson. Although believed to be correct as presented, if you note any corrections, changes, additions, or find that any links provided on this page are not functioning properly please contact the County Coordinator for prompt attention to the matter.

Last updated Sept 28, 2007