"Fair Oaks and San Juan Memories" has had the surnames indexed and a link that index can be found below. We have not indexed the names of the other three scanned books, and the pages of all four are scanned images, so the full text is not word-searchable. "The Way it Was" is searchable on your system, and is also is indexed on the website index.
Putting these pages on our website was a volunteer effort, and as such we try to make the structure of the files and web pages as simple as possible. Each page has simple navigational aids but no processing entry boxed that enable you to go to a specific page in the book. To do that, simply go to any page and change the URL (Address line) to reflect the page you want to go to.
The scanned books have very small print, and presenting a page to fit the screen results in marginally unreadable print. To alleviate this, we have placed two copies of each book page on each web-page; the first allows you to see the whole page on your screen and the lower image is much larger allowing you to read the text. To go down to the full readable image, simply click on the "Go down to larger image" link at the top of each page.
Fair Oaks, the Early Years was published by
the Fair Oaks Historical Society in 1995 as a Fair Oaks Centennial project. It contains
46 pages of Fair Oaks history and photos. The Historical Society has only a few copies
of the book left and is holding them for any interested libraries or societies.
Fair Oaks and San Juan Area Memories, as
compiled and printed by the San Juan Record during its Silver Anniversary Year, 1958,
and the following year, consisted mainly of the memoirs of leading
residents, all of whom lived in the San Juan area when the San
Juan Record was founded in 1933.
The 103 page book was edited by Selden Menefee, Patricia Fitzgerald
and Geraldine Fitzgerald, and published by the San Juan Record Press,
Fair Oaks, California, in 1960. It was a limited publication, with
500 copies printed and numbered. All copies were sold, and the Fair Oaks
Historical Society has three donated copies. The San Juan Record went
out of business in 1980.
We have indexed the names of people listed in this book, and that list can be seen at Fair Oaks Memories Index
The Heart of California was published by
Howard and Wilson Publishing Company, Chicago, in 1897 as an advertising magazine for their
Fair Oaks Colony real estate sales.
The Way it Was was published by
the Fair Oaks Woman's Thursday Club in 1976 and was republished in 2008. It contains
descriptions of events by decade, both worldwide and in Fair Oaks from 1895 to 1975 from
the perspective of individual members of the Club.
The History of the San Juan Unified School District
was published by author James Cowan in 2000.
It contains a detailed history of all the schools in the District plus much detail
on each of the schools, the unification of the District, staff and curriculum.