Contact Information
Ken Caetano, Tuolumne County Assessor-Recorder-Archivist
- Assessor’s Office – 2 South Green Street, Sonora, CA 95370
Office Hours – Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM to 5PM
Phone: (209) 533-5535
Fax: (209) 533-5674
E-mail:assessor@tuolumnecounty.ca.gov
- Recorder’s Office – 2 South Green Street, Sonora, CA 95370
Office Hours – Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM to 5PM
Phone: (209) 533-5531
Fax: (209) 533-6543
E-mail:recorder@tuolumnecounty.ca.gov
- Carlo M. De Ferrari Archives – 490 Greenley Road, Sonora, CA 95370
Office Hours – Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM to 5PM
Phone: (209) 536-1163
E-mail:archives@tuolumnecounty.ca.gov
Archive Location & Hours
Location
The Carlo M. De Ferrari Archive is located at 490 Greenley Road in Sonora behind the Tuolumne County Library. Also located nearby is 49’er Rotary Park with a picnic area, a popular "Heaven for Kids" playground for young children, Skate Park, Senior Center and The Vietnam War Memorial.
Parking / Hours /Access
Parking facilities are provided. Entrance to the parking lot is on Greenley Road. Park your vehicle in the main parking lot and walk to the rear of the county library. There is one handicapped parking site next to the archive.
The Research Room is open by appointment only. You can reach us at (209) 536-1163. Appointments are available Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. As a Tuolumne County supported repository of public records, the archive is open and free, subject only to limitations and restrictions necessary to preserve and ensure the safety of the records. For this reason the staff may insist on the use of microfilm instead of the original records. Requests to access Superior Court Records must be approved by the Court. Researchers can contact the court’s representative Tami Kearney@: (209) 533-6971 or tami@tuolumne.courts.ca.gov
Archive Functions
The function of the archive is to preserve and protect Tuolumne County’s written history. The archive is named in honor of Carlo M. De Ferrari, a third generation Tuolumne County native son and “ Official Historian of Tuolumne County,” a title bestowed in 1972 by the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors in recognition of his extensive knowledge of local history and his dedication to its preservation. The governing body of the Carlo M. De Ferrari Archive is the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors. The county archivist, who is appointed by the Board of Supervisors, oversees general administration of the archive. The Records and Archive Coordinator supervises daily operations. All records accepted for preservation in the archive must have an historical connection to official county governmental business. Volunteers from the Tuolumne County Historical Society and the Tuolumne County Genealogical Society accession records. The archive is largely dependent on these volunteers to perform its mission.
The function of the records center is to provide a records management system that will make Tuolumne County government more efficient and more responsive while reducing the risks associated with poorly managed records.
Archive Goals
- Consolidate the county’s historical records to one location.
- Input data from the county’s historical collection inventory into the archive’s database and to assign each record a unique inventory number.
- Maintain a system to protect, to preserve and to restore the county’s historic records collection.
- Recruit, train, and maintain a core of archive volunteers.
- Maintain guidelines for which records, that are to be retained in the Archive
For a copy of our brochure, other historical repositories in Tuolumne County, and the State of California Archive, please see the links on the right-hand side of this page.
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