Paradise Genealogical Society Research Request Form         (Please Print)

Your Name ____________________________________________  Date of Request ______________________

Your Address _________________________________________________________________________________

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E-Mail Address ____________________________________  Telephone _______________________________

Ancestor’s Full Name____________________________Date & Place Birth ___________________________

Date & Place Death _____________________________ Spouse/s  ___________________________________

Children______________________________________________________________________________________

Do you have evidence your ancestor lived in Butte Co.?  What and where________________________ 

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What goal do you wish to accomplish with this inquiry/research? ______________________________

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Please indicate the service you are requesting:

* One surname look-up from one source below.                              $  5.00

* One surname look-up & four family given names from ALL sources          $ 15.00 PGS member
  listed below                                                            $ 20.00 non-member
                                                                         
* More extensive research in Butte Co. Courthouse & Meriam Library     
  Number of hours (two hour minimum) _____ @ $10.00 per hour              $ _________

* Obituary from PGS library collection. (Library collection begins about 
  about 1975)                                                             $  5.00

                                                     Amount enclosed:     $ _____________     
PGS library documents which will be researched:
   1. Thirty-five cemeteries & many isolated graves-index
   2. Great Register of Voters - 1866 to 1884 and 1890 
   3. Butte County Directory for 1881 
   4. Earliest Death & Burials Index prior to 1906 
   5. Probate Abstracts Index (County/Superior Court) 1850-1880 
   6. Probate Records Index 1850 to 1917 
   7. Grantee Index to Deeds 1855-1871 (A-H only) 
   8. Marriages Index 1851 - 1920 
   9. Births Index 1859 - 1905 
  10. Delayed Births Index 1869 - 1991 
  11. Land Pre-emption Claims Index 1850 - 1875 
  12. Tax Assessor's Records Index of 1857 
  13. Pioneers in, or born in, California before 1870 
  14. Butte Co. Federal Census Indexes: 1850-1880, 1900, 1910 
  15. Butte Co. Coroner's Inquest Index 1852 - 1963 
  16. Butte County Newspaper Vitals 1880 - 1899 
  17. Biographies in "History of Butte County" by Mansfield 

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