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Local newspapers furnish a wealth of genealogical data and often help fill in the gaps in official records. The names contained in this index are primarily residents of Sonoma County, but some residents of the surrounding counties-Marin, Napa, Solano, Lake and Mendocino-can also be found within these pages. Newspapers indexed include: Cloverdale Review, Guerneville Times and Russian River Advertiser, Healdsburg Tribune, Petaluma Argus, Petaluma Daily Courier, Press Democrat, Sonoma Index Tribune, Santa Rosa Republican, and the Sebastopol Times. This volume is unique in that letters from soldiers, many serving in other than the U.S. army (British, Canadian, French and Italian), are included. This eleventh volume in the series contains more than 14,500 entries in alphabetical table format. Entries include: surname, given name, type of entry (birth, death, marriage, probate, or other records which include letters written by World War I soldiers), name of newspaper, date of article, page and column number, and comments. Surname entries often include alternative spellings. Given Name entries may include the relationship to the individual listed. Comments furnish, as available, cemetery names, locations mentioned in an article, special circumstances, and other supplemental data. A list of Sonoma County cemeteries, a map of the county, and a list of Sonoma place names enhance this valuable resource.

Kimball Pearsons of the Town of Collins, Erie County, New York, was a descendant of early settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Rhode Island. Although he was a Quaker, on August 28, 1862, Kimball enlisted in the 10th Regiment of Cavalry, New York State Volunteers. He was killed in action twenty-two months later during the Battle of Trevilian Station. While in military service, he was a prodigious correspondent, writing approximately 100 letters to his sister and her family. He also maintained a daily diary and an active correspondence with friends, neighbors and relatives. Kimball's letters are quite detailed and bring one about as close to life as a cavalryman as may be possible without experiencing it firsthand. The letters also illuminate activities at home on Kimball's farm, which was being managed in his absence by his sister and her husband. There are a number of common threads through the letters: the military aspects of Kimball's life; his friendship with Joseph Matthews, and the contrast between Kimball's health and literacy and that of Joseph; Kimball's descriptions of the Virginia countryside; his concerns about the handling of his affairs and the payment of his debts back home; his affection for his nieces; and his often strained relationship with his sister and her husband. This book contains transcriptions of Kimball's diary entries and letters, with a few summaries of letters. The text is enhanced by numerous vintage and other photographs of people and places, a facsimile reprint of one of Kimball's letters, and the following appendices: a chart of paternal ancestors; a chart of maternal ancestors; genealogical data on Bartlett aunts, uncles and cousins; a transcript of an Amey Taft letter; and military records. A bibliography and an index to full-names add to the value of this work.