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California Vital Records Information

Vital records can be invaluable while researching your family. Those interested in California genealogy can find information such as mother's maiden names, previous address and next of kin. Below you will find information about finding these types of genealogy records in California.

Order Birth and Death Records Online

Address:
Office of Vital Records
Department of Health Services
P.O. Box 730241
Sacramento, CA 94244-0241

California Birth and death records
Birth $12.00 per copy
Death $8.00 per copy

California state office has had records since July 1905. For earlier records, write to County Recorder in county where event occurred.  Check or money order should be made payable to State Registrar, Department of Health Services or Office of Vital Records. Call  (916) 445-2684 to verify current fees.

California State marriage records
$12.00 per copy

State office has had records since July 1905. For earlier records, write to County Recorder in county where event occurred.

California State divorce records
$12.00 for verification

Fee is for search and identification of county where certified copy can be obtained (years 1962 thru 1984 only). For all other years or for a copy of the decree, write to County clerk in County where event occurred. Certified copies of decrees are not available from State Health Department.

County divorce records
Costs vary

Contact the Clerk of Superior Court in the California county where divorce was granted.

California Databases

California Census, 1790-1890
Monterey Census, 1850-60
Ojai Valley Directory, 1938
Yuba, Sutter, Colusa, Butte, and Tehama Counties Directory, 1885

San Francisco Directories, 1889-91

Pomona Directory, 1896-97
Nevada County Directory, 1895
Los Angeles, Cal. City Directories, 1888-90
California Narratives: Early Voyages to California
California Narratives: California for Health, Pleasure and Residence
California Pioneers, 1542-1848
California Cemetery Inscription Sources
California and Californians, Vol. 1
California and Californians, Vol. 2
California and Californians, Vol. 3
California and Californians, Vol. 4
Oakhill Cemetery Inscriptions
Sacramento California, Sacramento Beenewspaper 1859, Obituaries, Marriages, Births
California Birth Index, 1905-10
Edward S. Parkinson, California Summer, 1892
George Weeks, California Newspaperman
Lucius Fairchild, California Letters, 1849-55
Thaddeus Kenderdine, California Travels, 1858-59
Walter Colton, Three Years in California, 1846-49
Frank Marryat, California Mountains and Molehills, 1855
David A. Shaw, California As Seen by a Pioneer
Herman Scharmann, Journey to California
Felix Wierzbicki, California Guidebook, 1849
George W. Bryan, Recollections of a California Pioneer
Benjamin Avery, California Poetry and Prose, 1878
Harris Newmark, Sixty Years in California
William H. Davis, Seventy-Five Years in California
Judge Benjamin Hayes, California Diary
Albert S. Evans, Life in California
Clifford Allen, Rail Trip to California, early 1900s
Lloyd Briggs, Trips to California
Shasta County, California Register, 1898
Charles Holder, Life in California, early 1900s
David Leeper, Life in California, 1849-54
John Bidwell, Life in California
James Hamilton, Life in California
Hariet Harper, Six Months in California, 1888
Prentice Mulford, Life in California
Shasta County, California Marriages, 1852-1904
Benjamin D. Wilson, Report on California Indians, 1852
Charles Painter, Report on the Indian Territory and California
William Kelly, Excursion to California, Vol. 1, 1849
William Kelly, Excursion to California, Vol. 2, 1849-50
Peter Burnett, Life in California
Samuel H. Willey, Thirty Years in California
Henry Ellis, Trip from Maine to California, 1849
Oscar Fitzgerald, 20 Years in California
Oscar Fitzgerald, 20 Years in California, 2nd Edition
Jacob Harlan, Wagon Trip to California, 1846
William Taylor, Life in California, 1849-55
Lell Woolley, Sixty-four Years in California
D.B. Bates, Trip from Massachusetts to California, 1850
Edward G. Buffum, Three Years in California, 1847-49
Colusa, California Newspaper Records, 1876-84
Enos Christman, Life in California, 1849-52
Elisha Crosby, California Memoirs
Alonzo Delano, California Correspondence, 1849-52
Alexandre Dumas, Trip to California
Hinton Helper, Life in California, 1850s
Theodore Johnson, Life in California, 1849
John Letts, Life in California
Dr. William McCollum, Trips to California, 1849-50
Michael White, Life in Mexican California, early 1800s
Samuel McNeil, Trip to California, 1849
Ernest de Massey, Life in California's Gold Rush
Carl Meyer, Life in California
William Shaw, Trip from Australia to California, 1849
William Sherman, Recollections of California, 1846-61
Lee Whipple-Haslam, Life in California
Luzena Wilson, Life in California
Daniel Woods, Sixteen Months in California, 1849-50
John Ross Browne, The Debates of the Convention of California
Mina Deane Halsey, A Tenderfoot in Southern California
California Narratives: A Year of American Travel
California Narratives: The Expedition of the Donner Party
Helen H. Jackson, Glimpses of California and the Missions
Jacob Barzilla, Camping Out in California
Solomon Mead, Notes of Two Trips to California and Return
William Francis White, A Picture of Pioneer Times in California
William Hutton, Glances at California, 1847-53
Shasta county Naturalization Records: 1852 - 1932
Sacramento California, Sacramento Bee Newspaper 1889 - 1890: vital records
California State Roster, 1899 Government and Military records
California Narratives: Glimpses of Hungryland
California Narratives: Los Angeles in the Sunny Seventies
California Narratives: Men and Memories of San Francisco
California Deaths, 1940-97
Semi-Tropical California, Its Climate, Healthfulness, Productiveness and Scenery
California Narratives: Summer Saunterings
California Narratives: The Adventures of a Forty-Niner
California Narratives: Phoenixiana, or Sketches and Burlesques
Caroline Churchill, California Travel Letters, 1870-73
San Diego Union-Tribune (California) Obituaries, 1993-94
Caroline Churchill, California Travel Letters, 1874-80
Lilian Cross, Life in California
Walter Fisher, Life in California, 1870s
John Swan, Life in California, 1848
Jackson Graves, Seventy Years in California
Edward D. Holton, Rail Trip to California, 1879
David Phillips, Life in California, 1876
J.G. Player-Frowd, Six Months in California, 1870s
Harvey Rice, Letters from California, 1870
Mary Wills, Winter in California, 1888
Emma Adams, Trips to California, 1880s
Frederick Rindge, Life in California, Late 1800s
Travel Guide to Southern California, 1893
William Manley, Life in Death Valley, California, 1849
William Taylor, Preaching in California, 1849-56
Joseph Heco, From Japan to California, 1850, Part 2
Joseph Heco, Life in California
Stephen Field, Practicing Law in California, 1850
Eliza and James Gregson, Life in California, 1840s
John Borthwick, Three Years in California, 1851-54
Edward McGowan, Life in California, 1856
William Ryan, Adventures in CA, Vol. 1
William Ryan, Adventures in CA, Vol. 2
Bayard Taylor, California Correspondence, 1849
Bayard Taylor, California Correspondence, 1850
James Tyson, California Physician, 1849
Henry Vizetelly, Four Months in the California Gold Fields
Mary Cone, Two Years in California, 1873-75
Constance Gordon-Cumming, Five Months in California
Frank Leach, Early California Newspaperman
Evelyn Hertslet, Ranch Life in California, 1885
Sarah Smith, Raised On a California Sheep Ranch, 1870s
Robert Louis Stevenson, Silverado, California, 1880s
Isaac Mylar, San Juan Bautista Mission, California, 1860s
Yuba County, California History, 1850-1900
Charles Murdock, California Printing and Politics, 1855-1910
Albert Williams, San Francisco, California Pastorate, 1849-54
Richard Dana, Two Years in California, 1834-36
Merced County, California Deaths, 1852-1999
Susie Clark, From Boston to California, 1890
John Bidwell, Living in California, 1841-89
Henry Brewer, Surveying California, 1860-64
J. W. Linkins, California Book Agent, 1868-74
James Steele, Sketch of California History, 1889
Louise Clappe, Letters from California, 1851-52
Henry Huntley, California Gold, 1856
Dow Stephens, Jayhawker in California, 1849
Samuel Upham, Voyage to California, 1848
James Carson, California Mining Life, 1848-52
Frederick Gay, Sketches of California, 1848
Luther Schaeffer, Sketches of California, 1860
Pringle Shaw, California Mining, 1857
Kimball Webster, Seeking Gold in California, 1849-54
James Woods, Church Work in California, 1850-60
Thomas Chard, California Sketches, 1888
Thaddeus Kenderdine, Return to California, 1898
Mary Vail, Southern California Settlement, 1888
Charles Warner, Southern California, 1890
Charles Dowsett, California Land Sales Agent, 1891
California Narratives: Fourth Thousand, Life on the Plains
Sim Moak,The Last of the Mill Creeks, and Early Life in Northern California
California Narratives: Recollections of a Long and Somewhat Uneventful Life

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