Pioneer CertificatesNapa Valley Genealogical Society issues Pioneer Certificates to direct descendants of early Napa County settlers. NVGS has issued more than 50 Pioneer Certificates over the years. For each named pioneer, the Society maintains a file containing the family genealogy and corroborating documentation. Many of these pioneers have gone unnoticed. Our Pioneer Certificate program provides a way to gather information about these important local ancestors. In addition to receiving a Pioneer Certificate, successful applicants are contributing to the preservation of Napa County's history.  |
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To receive a certificate, the applicant must prove DIRECT descent from a person who resided in Napa County sometime between 9 September 1850 (date of California statehood) and 31 December 1899. The ancestor need not have been born in Napa County nor must they have remained here, but it must be clearly proved that they resided in Napa at some time during this period.
Documented proof includes: Census records, birth certificates, marriage records, tax records, land deeds, church records, dated newspaper articles, and other primary documents.
Great resource: The San Diego Genealogical Society (SDGS) has created a publicly available pioneer database of more than 1 million records. They also offer a certificate program for those who can trace their ancestry to any California pioneer. Learn more.
Our Napa PioneersAllen, Jacob O. Bale, Edward Turner Bartlow, Calvin C. Beard, William W. Blake, John Blake-McCombs-Sawyer, Araminta Boundsall, John Bradley, Thomas Wesley Chapman, Levi Asa Chapman, Solomon Maxley Chase, Capt. George B. Chenette, Joseph | Clovedill, Eli DeWeese, George Washington Elkinston, James Edward Ellsworth, Eliphalet V. Gillen, Cornelius (Neal) Griffith, James A. Hampton, Reuben R. Hannah-Roney-Moss, Delila Jane Harer, Evan Haugse, Lars Jonsson Hazelton, Pearse R. Head, John Holzreiter, Peter E. Ish, Carroll Whitfield | McCombs-Hague, Hannah McCombs, Isaac McCombs, Lambert McCombs-Shores-Roney, Martha A. Meyer, Conrad Meyer, Maria Keller Roney, Alexander Stevenson Roney, Leonides "Lee" Roney-Price-Price, Helen M. Sammons, Ira Tucker, Reason P. Valencia, Enos Anthony Warner, Barbara Cole |
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