Rootsweb newsletter contained several website URLs with California records http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~npmelton This site has some marriages and deaths, passenger lists and lists of companies coming overland to CA. It takes a while to search it because you need to click on the county and then click on each separate database but this has a lot of information. The previous is the main page from you all the rest can be found. Bette