Beginning in 1852, debtors in Sonoma County, California were taken to court to settle their debts. Early records remaining in the office of the Sonoma County Recorder for the period 1852 to 1917 are preserved in large leather-bound books, currently kept in a locked case. They are well preserved and include an index titled, "Transcript of Judgments," and four volumes, P, Q, R, and S, of actual records titled, "Transcript, Judgment, Judgment Court," which contain the original hand-written record. This online index is a guide to those records.

The Sonoma County Genealogical Society created the online index to these valuable records. You can view the index at: rootsweb.com/~cascgs/judge.htm

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