Your dues and contributions go toward our mission of promoting, preserving, and celebrating the history of Santa Clara County. Members receive our quarterly publication, The Trailblazer, featuring the best stories of local history. Members are invited to our luncheons, where speakers and films showcase the forefront of historical research, and our members meet and socialize. Our Mary Lou Lyon Research Library, featuring many one-of-a-kind works and focused local history sections on our communities and ancestors, is open to members only.
The basic cost of annual and lifetime dues rarely covers the actual expense of having membership. That is because, for almost every member, the California Pioneers of Santa Clara County subsidizes the cost of your membership. We do this as a service to our members and the community.
Regular Member
Any resident of California for 35 years or more, or is descendent of a California resident of 35 years or more.
Associate Member
Any person who has a strong interest in local Santa Clara County history, or is a significant other to a Regular Member.
Lifetime Member
A Regular or Associate Member who pays for a lifetime membership rather than annual payments. This is usually a cost savings to the member.
Regular & Associate Memberships
- Pioneer
- $35/year
- Receives the Trailblazer journal, quarterly luncheon invitations, volunteer opportunities, and membership card.
- Pioneer Family
- $60/year
- One member, plus significant other, plus minor children. One parent may be a Regular Member and the other an Associate Member. Plus benefits of Pioneer Level.
- Loomis
- $100/year
- Receives Pioneer Level benefits plus a book or DVD, and a Pioneer lapel medallion with ribbon and pin (replicated from the original membership of 1875.)
Lifetime Memberships
- Lifetime Membership
- $400
- One Time Payment
- No need to renew dues each
year. Receives the Trailblazer journal, quarterly luncheon
invitations, volunteer opportunities, and membership card.
- Arbuckle
- $500
- One Time Payment
- Lifetime membership benefits plus a book or DVD, Pioneer lapel medallion with ribbon and pin, two additional free Pioneer memberships for one year, two free tickets to a luncheon (the year of the donation), and recognition in our Trailblazer journal and website.
- Coleman Younger
- $1000
- One Time Payment
- Arbuckle Level benefits, plus we will host a private event at our Roberto Adobe & Suñol House Museum, or our Paulson House Museum.
- A.P. Murgotten Benefactor
- $5000+
- One Time Payment
- Coleman Younger Level benefits, plus additional benefits such as special recognition, name on a plaque at one of our museums, a special event,
tours, and documenting/preserving your family’s history.