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California Vital Records -- Including California births, California deaths, California marriages, cemetery, census, and more records.



Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
Title of web siteWeb site address# of recordsDate RangeCost or FreeNotesOr try this...
Global Tree California Birthswww.gencircles.com
/globaltree/
and put CA in the birth place field
0ver 58,000variesFreeA nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information.California Pioneers, 1542-1848
San Francisco Birth Records 0ver 2,300before 1920, most before 1905FreeYou look up a surname and go from there. Many of these come from pre-1905 newspapers.Update: California Vital Record Closures
RootsWeb California Birth WorldConnect Recordsworldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi
and put Califonia in the birth place field
0ver 300,000variesFreeWorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical and contact information.California and Californians, Vol. 1
RootsWeb California Marriage WorldConnect Recordsworldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi
and put Califonia in the marriage place field
0ver 290,000variesFreeWorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical and contact information.California & Sierra Nevada Region, 1833-1860
"San Francisco Call" Database Indexfeefhs.org/fdb2
/sfcalli.html
approx. 240,0001869-1895Does not cost for initial lookup, but it is $4 for a full database record that tells exact date.A neat site with many names. Unfortunately, when you find the name you are looking for, the date of death or marriage is pretty general.Felix Wierzbicki, California Guidebook, 1849
RootsWeb California Death WorldConnect Recordsworldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi
and put Califonia in the death place field
0ver 930,000variesFreeWorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical and contact information.California Narratives: Early Voyages to California
Obiruary Daily Times: Californiaobits.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/obit.cgi
and put "CA" in the Keyword Search
0ver 707,000more recent datesFreeAnother nice Rootsweb site. The problem is that most of the death records are more recent. But it’s a great start.California and the Sierra-Nevada Region, 1833-60
Global Tree CA Deathswww.gencircles.com
/globaltree/
and put CA in the death place field
0ver 146,000variesFreeA nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information. California Narratives: California for Health, Pleasure and Residence
Census Records
Title of web siteWeb site address# of recordsDate RangeCost or FreeNotesOr try this...
The USGenWeb Census Projectwww.us-census.org and go down to Census Surname Search and then find CA and put in the word "census"28 links with varying numbers of records per each1790-1920FreeWow, what a site! Transcribed by volunteers and still in the works, I really found this site great! You can search by year, state, or name!California Census, 1790-1890
Census Online, California, 133 linkswww.census-online.
com/links/CA/
1,000s1840-1900FreeAnother nice site without the information of how much is posted. A lot is posted however it is difficult to search through to find your ancestor as there is not a surname searchShasta County, California Register, 1898
Foreign-born voters of California in 1872 The Great Registryfeefhs.org/
fbvca/fbvcagri.html
61,6911872You can first find your ancestor, where they were from and their age for free, but then to get a more complete record you send $5, or $12 for a printout of a page of the registry.Another nice starting place if your ancestors migrated to California before 1872. Again, there is a cost, but you can find out their date of naturalization and where it took place.George Weeks, California Newspaperman
Cemetery Records
Title of web siteWeb site address# of recordsDate RangeCost or FreeNotesOr try this...
California Inscription Cemetery Searchwww.obitcentral.com
/cemsearch/ca-cem.htm
2236 documents with various numbers of results per eachvariesFreeAnother nice searchable site that takes a lot of its information from RootsWeb, but it also catalogues from other cemetery sites.California Cemetery Inscription Sources
Cemetery Transcription Librarywww.interment.net
/data/search.htm
100svariesFreeWhat a cool site! It's hard to pin point exactly how many records there are per site as it only gives the "best" 300, although it gave a general number for the entire site. Making Connections at the Cemetery
Search the Virtual Cemeterywww.genealogy.com
/VG/vcem_search.html
100svariesFreeA nice searchable site. And how fun it was to bring up a name and see a picture of the actual headstone.Videotape Cemetery Finds


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