Voting registers
According to J. Carlyle Parker in his article California's Great Registers:
"California's Registry Act of 1866 established the Great Register. All voters (only males over 21 years of age) were required to register providing their full name, age, state or country of birth, occupation, and address. ... California's 1872 Political Code included the mandate for counties to print alphabetical lists of voters every other year, thus creating a printed index to the manuscript great register. However, seventy-one per cent of California counties started printing indexes in 1867, and eighty-two per cent were printing indexes before 1872."
Our resources
- Do you have records you'd like to donate to our archives? You can submit your records online. Please email us if you have questions about submitting records.
Other online resources
- San Mateo County 1888 Great Register. Digital images at sfgenealogy.com.
Offline resources
- The Family History Library has the following registers on microfilm: 1867-1869, 1871-1872, 1875-1877, 1879-1880, 1882, 1884, 1886, 1890, 1892, 1894, 1896, 1898
- Index to the great register of San Mateo County, 1890, California. The San Mateo County Genealogical Society, 1991. This book is available at several libraries and on microfilm through Family History Centers. It can also be purchased from the Society.
