Rainy Day Research: Genealogical and Family History Services, Newspaper Indexing and Newspaper Transcriptions

Welcome!

Welcome to Rainy Day Research, a family history and genealogy service located in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are currently providing online data and transcriptions from newspapers, the great forgotten source of genealogical information

We are currently specializing in 19th century newspapers from California:

The Oakland Tribune Index Main Page
Oakland Newspaper Transcriptions Main Page
The Woodland Daily Democrat Index Main Page
The Woodland Daily Democrat Transcriptions Main Page

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Google Books

We continue to add to our Google Books Index. Organized by locality and surnames, this index includes all full-view books and journals of genealogical interest from Google Book Search. Items include journals from genealogy and historical societies, local histories, biographical encyclopedias, city directories, genealogies and family histories!