University of California at Davis - UCD
Genealogy, Family and Local History Research
General UCD campus departments and library information, UCD Shields library
tour and transportation, genealogy and family history book and periodical
catalog searches, with additional regional genealogical resource
depositories near the UCD Shields main campus library.

Use MELVYL® - The Catalog of the University of California Libraries to obtain all current
information on specific entries listed below, (full holdings, locations, call numbers, etc.)
or to find new additions in the Entire Collection.   A general search can be done by
subject or keywords, using: "Genealog*", Et cetera,  for the entire collection.
Records listed with "Online Access" use Online Resources.

ADDITIONAL REGIONAL GENEALOGICAL RESOURCE DEPOSITORIES Collections
NEAR THE UCD SHIELDS MAIN CAMPUS LIBRARY
* California Societies
* Campus - Davis Wiki
  - Locations - About the Libraries
  - Public Access in Davis
  - WiFi Hot Spots
* City of Davis and Yolo County, California
* Davis California LDS (Mormon) Stake and Family History Center
* Davis Senior Center
  - The Davis Genealogy Club
    - DGC: Library Holdings
    - Mailing List
* Genealogical and Historical Council of Sacramento Valley - Member Organizations
* Local Public Libraries
* Oakland Temple Hill Family History Center
* Sacramento California Temple district includes:
  Anderson, Auburn, Carmichael, Chico, Citrus Heights, Davis, El Dorado, Elk Grove,
  Fair Oaks, Gridley, Lodi, Rocklin, Roseville, Sacramento, Sacramento Antelope,
  Sacramento Cordova, Sacramento East, Sacramento North, Stockton, Vacaville
  and Yuba City Stake and Ward Web Sites.
* Sacramento Public Library - Genealogy: Advanced Reference Sources
* Sacramento Regional Family History Center - LDS (Mormon) Church
* San Francisco Bay Area Genealogy Consortium
  - Bancroft at UC Berkeley - San Francisco, California - Sutro Library
* Selected Genealogy Resources at the CSUS Library
* Solano County Genealogical Society, Inc.
* Sonoma County Library Genealogy Resources
* Yolo County Genealogy: California GenWeb
* Yolo County Library - Davis Branch and Genealogy Links

GENERAL UCD CAMPUS DEPARTMENTS & LIBRARY INFORMATION
UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA at DAVIS: General Libraries
* Books & Journal Collections in Transition
* Facts about the University Library
* Health Sciences Libraries
  - Frequently Asked Questions: Melvyl®
  - General Reference Resources
* E-Mail Reference Service
* Librarian Subject Specialists - Directories
* Library History: People
* Library Vocabulary: A Glossary
* MySearchSpace by MetaLib™ - QuickSearch
* Search The UC Davis Library website using Google™
* Shields Library - Davis Wiki
* UC Davis Libraries and Collections
  - Special Collections
* University of California at Davis: The Harvest Portal
  Databases, library catalogs, information and basic Keyword search.
  The University of California at Davis Harvest Portal basic keyword(s)
  anywhere search for "genealog*", shows 1,712 records found
  as of Dec 8, 2005, with 3,402 search results found for "family history".
  There are also 1,892 results found for a search of "local history".
  - Getting Started - Harvest Help - University Library - UC Davis

General public access to worldwide database resources, including access
to over 61 million bibliographic records in  WorldCat™ @ OCLC), can be
directly obtained only from computer terminal screens within the Shields
Library Building.   Search records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC
member libraries, worldwide.  This includes manuscripts written as early as
the 11th century.  Universities and many of the participating OCLC members,
allow Interlibrary Loans of genealogical records.  What is seen online can
usually be sent for via a local area branch Library.  Other UC Davis Collections,
Electronic Databases and Subject Guides expand access to records.

Monitors in the library connected to the Internet can be used by the general public
following posted University Library research policy.  Information can be E-mailed
directly to home computers, (if you have your own private E-mail account), or sent
to the library copy center.  All of the "How To" is listed on notices next to the various
monitors or contact Library Reference Consultants.  Please use discretely at low student
volume use, such as on weekends, not during finals, early in the morning or later in
the evening.  Break times and summer are excellent.  The Libraries are open for
very long hours under the jurisdiction of excellent paid professional staff.

Classes are periodically given for beginners at the Shields Library that cover extensively
the use of the MELVYL® System and its excellent worldwide Library Research resources.
General public access is provided on a space available basis.  Library Instruction Program
includes online Guides and Tutorials.

WorldCat™ (@ OCLC) and other specialized databases, are only available with approved
Passwords off campus.  Passwords are available to UC students, faculty and staff.  They are
not available to California State Library, California State University, or other non-UC users.

Borrowing from library catalogs, or connecting from off campus to Licensed Databases
and Course Reserves, can be facilitated with Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery.
Use the Melvyl® Mail a Set for instructions on how to Email results to destinations outside
the library system.  The Internet databases contain millions of records, with some holdings
updated weekly.

UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA at DAVIS
Special Departmental Projects and Courses
* History Department
* Humanities and Social Sciences Department - Reference Services
* Life Cycles, Kinship and Growth in Human Populations: Introduction
  - Aging
  - Family
    The family as a distinct unit of study provides an opportunity to jointly examine demographic,
    economic, sociological and biological variables.  Includes family history and genealogy.
  - Human Genome Project
  - Life Tables and Mortality
  - Population
* Medieval and Early Modern Studies at UCDavis
* UC Davis Extension
  - Arts and Humanities
    - Areas of Study
      - Family History Courses
* UC Davis Health System - Medical Center - School of Medicine
  - State's New System for Streamlining Death Certificates
* University of California Digital History Archives: Davis Campus
* Vietnam War Through New Eyes

TOUR & TRANSPORTATION
UC Davis Shields Library in the Sacramento Valley, is a user-friendly resource in the State
of California, for patrons willing to do their own work and spend the time to learn the system.
It is a primary historical, genealogy and family history research center in the north central
California area.  It is listed among the top university research institutions in the world.
Additionally, this California statewide Agricultural Institution provides a family friendly
atmosphere.  The agricultural collections provide information and resources of the basic
ancestry and historical setting of most of mankind, in all nations and among all peoples
since the beginning of time.   The Bible, for example, is much more easily understood
from an agricultural perspective.  Historically, in the United States prior to the 1870's,
agriculture was the major occupation in the nation.  Going back to the 1790 U.S. census,
statistics show that about 90 per cent of the United States population was involved in
agriculture, with founding father and first President George Washington not excluded.

Shields Library Floor Plans and other Library locations can be combined with the Library
of Congress Classification System, to determine the location of resources, from "A to Z".
Red covered Library of Congress Subject Headings books, are located at reference points
throughout the library.   A primary area for genealogy records, the Auxiliary Sciences of
History "C" section, is located in the Second Floor Library Main Reading Room, with added
books and personal help provided at the Humanities / Social Sciences reference counter,
with its extensive reference selections.

Shields Library has thousands of books on the subject of family history, genealogy,
or related disciplines and research aids.  The Map collection in the Lower Level of
the library has the useful Sanborn Map Collection.  Additionally, there are Third Floor
maps in the "G" Geography section and Second Floor reference section maps, in all
sizes and content.  A Lower Level example of a genealogy research aid is the book:
Distances Between Ports, VK 799 D57 1985, that provides good information on connecting
ports.  This information can be used to calculate the time for ship travel and determine
unknown port or ports of departure.  The Federal Records Depository, always open to
the general public, is located at the Lower Level, with The Microform Collection and
copy areas, including some microfilm readers and microform reproduction.  The "B"
section includes resources on Religious Studies  and congregational information.
The Lower Level also has over 20,000 "D" History section books on the British Isles,
including specialized runs of periodical works, individual city and regional histories.
The German collection has over 1,000 history books and information.
RESEARCH NOTE: D (History: General & Outside the Americas) and DA-DR (Great Britain -
Europe)  Pattern of codes go from general works, to regional works and serials / publications,
then to specific items.  An alphabetical nationwide section for cities, local parish records
and individual document sources are at the end of various history sub sections.

There are over 3 million volumes in the campus-wide library system, over 23 million records
on the UC System wide computer terminals and an excess of  33 million volumes in the UC
system, overall.  First Floor reference consultants can direct patrons to specific records, such
as the multi-thousand "DS 101-15l" Jewish book collection section, on the same floor, which
contains some specific genealogical and family records; or, to the Lower Level "BM" section
synagogue resources.  The First Floor has numerous computer terminal stations, copy - print
facilities, special needs, Special Collections, extended hours reading room, reserves, the
relaxed New Book section and main book checkout - check in or return counter.

Legal State of California residents can join the Alumni Association as sustaining members.
The UCD Alumni Association card allows access to the ten UC Library systems statewide,
(UCD, UCLA, UCB, etc.), with individual library cards made for each library.  This gives free
general library borrowing privileges, with restrictions, as applied at local sites.  An active
UCD Shields Library card can retrieve stored UCD records at NRLF, the Northern Regional
Library Facility, in Richmond, California.  There are about five (5) million low use books
from all institutions, with over two (2) million books from UC Berkeley, at NRLF.  Many of
these unrestricted records can be brought up and delivered for use at UCD, or taken home
to review.  For genealogical society groups, there is the nearby Blanchard Room, at Yolo
County Library - Davis Branch, providing community room access for group organizations,
upon advance registration approval.  The Yolo County Library at Davis provides Interlibrary
Loan services, for individuals with proper identification, who wish to purchase a local card.
Genealogy records, checked out for home use through this program, can obtain resources
from long distance participating institutions.  They are a welcome addition to Local and
Regional LDS Family History Centers, their CD's and microform collections loan services.

At Shields Library Second Floor is the Humanities & Social Sciences Reference section,
with genealogy resources, the Auxiliary Sciences of History "C" section, as well as many
CDs of interest, including Historical Abstracts, American History Abstracts, Dissertations,
special ethnic group collections and the Biography and Genealogy Master Index from
(Gale Publications).  Key reference books provide clues on how to do Prosopography
and family history research.  Also, there are over 500 resource books in the "E" section
related to migration (History: America and United States - Ethnic Resources: Genealogy -
Migrations, etc.).  The "F" section (History: United States Local and North & South America)
includes numerous invaluable runs of regional periodical collections that are not readily
available at the world's largest Family History Library, in Salt Lake City, Utah.  Family
and local history can be found in period music scores, alumni records, or in the purchase
of books during Library used book sales.

RESEARCH NOTES:
United States Local History classification pattern begins with the North Eastern States,
to the Southern U.S., then the Midwestern U.S., Western U.S., U.S. Territories, etc.;
followed by the F 1000 - (Canada) section and then the F 1201 - on: (Mexico, then
Central America to South America).  Additional areas of genealogical interest are
the "G" (Geography, Atlases, Maps, Anthropology, Recreation), GR (Folklore), GT
(Manners and Customs - Private/Public); "H" (Social Sciences: Local Population Studies
at HB 885 L81; or, Time & Society , An International Interdisciplinary Journal, with
Vol. 5, Number 2, 1996, HM 208 T56, containing the article: "The Family Historian
and Temporal Orientations Towards the Ancestral Past".   Its findings, reported from a 1994
mail survey of 1348 members of a Canadian genealogical society, (and constantly updated),
shows the impact of the family historian role on personal identity and family culture),
HQ 503-1064 (The Family, Marriage, Home), HS (Societies: Secret, Benevolent, etc.);
"J" (Political Science), JS (Local Government, Municipal Government), JV (Colonies
& Colonization, Emigration & Immigration, International Migration); "K" (Law); "L"
(Education), LA (History of Education, Biography), LD-LG (Individual Institutions), LJ
(Student Fraternities and Societies in the United States); "M" (Music and Books on Music)
and ML 410 (Composer Biographies).]

The Shields Library Third Floor contains current computer periodicals for review
and "S" agricultural resources, the basic ancestry and historical setting of most of
mankind.  There are S1-19 (Periodicals and Societies), S 415-417 (Biography) and
S 419-471 (History).   "T" (Technology) includes TF (Railroads), TR (Photography)
and TX (Home Economics). Pertinent "U" Military Science and "V"  Naval Science
sections add insights into military acts, ships and ship construction, oceanic travel
and migration.  The "Z"  Library Science & Information Resources section has numerous
bibliographic works that assist genealogists and family historians, such as Bibliography,
Books, Information, Library & Writing.

The Shields Library Fourth Floor has a very large collection of "P" Language and Literature,
as well as "N" architectural information that can be used for constructing house or other
building histories.  Famous authors, such as Shakespeare, provide exclusive book resources
with exhaustive period information, at the local history or city level, when matched with
genealogy and family history local research areas of interest.
 
UC Davis (TAPS) and YOLOBUS connect with the downtown area of Sacramento and the
Sacramento International Airport.  Eating establishments are located near the Library,
both on and off campus.  There is a U.S. Post Office branch north of the Library, located
in the Memorial Student Union.  Using a local LDS FHC, or other genealogical society or
library, without recourse to the UC System in the State of California, or other library systems
available online, is an unwise use of time, very costly and an ineffective use of resources.

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