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.
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Et cetera,
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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
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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".
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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
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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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