Sierra County, California

Revision History

February 9, 2010 Photos added for Buttes Ravine, China Flat, Downieville, Sierra City and Sierra County in general.
Pages 92 - 222 added to the surname index for the Sinnott Downieville book.
Additions to the list of county newspapers.
Local surname message boards removed due to non-use.
August 17 & 28, 2009 Downieville photo #3 description corrected.
More locations and descriptions added to the locations page.
Major updates to the organizations page (historical socities & museums).
Pages 47 - 91 added to the surname index for the Sinnott Downieville book.
June 15, 2009 Martha A. Crosley Graham replaces Richard S. Wilson as the California State Coordinator for GenWeb.
Pages 22 - 46 added to the surname index for the Sinnott Downieville book.
Corrections to some Downieville photo descriptions.
March 27, 2009 Surname index for the Over North in Sierra County book completed.
Surname index for the Sinnott Downieville book started.
Lookup volunteer added for some of the Sinnott books.
February 8, 2009 More names added to the Over North in Sierra County book surname index.
Meriam Library description: web site navigation tip added.
Source Records page: various corrections to newspaper histories.

January 16, 2009

 A completely redesigned Sierra County web site replaces the prior one.
November 19, 2008 Richard L. Hanson becomes the County Coordinator and updates the web site to reflect that change. He then begins work on a complete redesign of the web site.
February 2008 After the death of Chuck Knuthson, Richard S. Wilson (State Coordinator for California) becomes the County Coordinator.
September 1999 Chuck Knuthson becomes County Coordinator.
October 1996 Patricia Rowell (Penn Valley, California) creates the Sierra County site and becomes its first County Coordinator.
July 1996 The first California GenWeb site comes online. Richard S. Wilson provides free web server space for all California GenWeb sites.
March 1996 The Kentucky Comprehensive Genealogy Database comes into existence in the form of volunteer-run genealogy web sites providing free, location-specific genealogy information to the public. It serves as a model for a California equivalent, CaGenWeb.

Page last revised 9 February 2010
Please report any problems (e.g., broken links, missing pages) to the Sierra County Coordinator.
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