Regional History Project of the Central Coast of California and Santa Cruz

By Lorelle VanFossen
Categories: Genealogy Resources

The The Regional History Project of the Central Coast of California is a project by the University of California at Santa Cruz and includes a vast list of online oral histories about the area.

If you have family or ancestors from the Santa Cruz and Central Coastal area of California, you can learn more about their lives and lifestyles and the history of the area through this regional history project.

The documents online are in HTML and PDF formats, and include stories of famous local residents such as photographer and social reformer, Esther Abbott and Hubert Wyckoff, attorney and labor arbitrator. Other interesting stories and transcribed oral histories include:

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Regional History Project of the Central Coast of California and Santa Cruz is Issue Number 237 published November 21, 2006, by Lorelle VanFossen. This is just one of many articles found in the Genealogy Resources categories. Lorelle VanFossen writes for a variety of blogs, websites, ezines, and print publications. She also teaches and does a lot of public speaking internationally on photography, writing, blogging, web page design and development, and more. She and her husband and cat(s) travel full-time across North American and the rest of the world by RV, planes, trains, automobiles, and foot, writing and photographing their travels and nature, when they can find it. Lorelle VanFossen has written 231 articles for our our family history blog.

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