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About Ventura County

Ventura County lies north of Los Angeles County, South of both Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties on the Coast of California. It is rich in history:

"In 1769, Spanish missionaries brought the first citrus to California when they established the twenty-one California missions. Farming in Ventura County started when Father Serra founded the San Buenaventura Mission in 1783. He planted citrus along with other fruit trees and vegetables."  

An excerpt from Yda Addis Storke's History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties may be found here.

Ventura County was home to the Chumash 
and has many archaeological and historical sites.

Ventura County Resources

Addresses
Biographies
Birth Records
Calendar
Cemeteries
Census Records
 Cities & Towns
County History
County Information
Death Records
Family Genealogies

Land Records
Lookups
Maps
Newspapers
Obituaries
Photographs
Queries
Research Links
Rootsweb Resource Page
Societies
Vital Records

Guide to County Archives of California

California Vital Records
CAGenWeb County Pages
CAGenWeb Clickable County Map

HELLO - WELCOME!

My name is LaRae Halsey-Brooks, and my daughter,
Eireann Brooks, and I are the new County Co-Coordinators
for the Ventura County CAGenWeb Project.

If you would like to contribute Biographical Sketches of your
Ventura County families to this website, please let us know.
We will be happy to create a special page for your material
and include any photographs, scanned documents,
or other items you'd like to add to the page.

We also would like a list of your Ventura County Surnames
with dates and townships. We'll include a link back
so others researching your families can contact you.

If you live in or near Ventura County and would like to
take digital photographs of cemeteries and tombstones,
please let us know.

If you have access to existing cemetery transcriptions,
land records, tax rolls, school class rosters/photos, etc.,
we would be most grateful for any and all submissions.

If you are interested in hosting another county
in California for the CAGenWeb Project,
adoptable counties can be found on the county index page,
or you may contact State Coordinator Martha Graham.

We will be updating this site throughout the week.
Please check back from time to time
as we add more information to the page!

Thank you!
LaRae & Eireann