• Various Birth, Marriage, Death and Obituary databases for California that include Santa Clara County.
• Births
• Births, 1851-1905—$$$$ (vitalsearch-ca.com)
• Births, 1864-1979—FREE (Santa Clara County Historical & Genealogical Society)
• Marriages
• Marriages, 1846-1946—$$$$ (vitalsearch-ca.com)
• Marriages, 1850-1978—FREE (Santa Clara County Historical & Genealogical Society)
• Marriages—FREE (USGenWeb)
• Names include those that begin with Acc-Fla and Yac-Zyc. Seems to cover late 1800s and early 1900s.
• "...transcribed from records at the Santa Clara County Recorders Office..."
• California Marriages, 1850-1877—FREE & $$$$ (ancestry.com)
• 1174 entries as of May 2007.
• Deaths
• Deaths, 1873-1905—$$$$ (vitalsearch-ca.com)
• Deaths, 1850-1978—FREE (Santa Clara County Historical & Genealogical Society)
• County Probates Collection Index, 1893-1908—FREE (Santa Clara County Archives)
• "The County Probate Cases Collection consists of approximately 2,100 cases heard by the Probate Court between May 1893 and September 1908."
• County Coroner Inquests Collection, 1891-1932—FREE (Santa Clara County Archives)
• "The Coroner Inquests Collection consists of 9,300 reports of corner inquests from 1891 to 1932."
• County Wills Collection Index—FREE (Santa Clara County Archives)
• "The County Wills Collection consists of approximately 10,000 wills filed with the County Clerk. The wills date from the early twentieth century into the 1970s, with the bulk of the wills from the years after 1940."

• Pioneer Familes of Santa Clara County—FREE(santaclararesearch.net)
• Included in our search index by permission of Carolyn Feroben.
• Santa Clara County Biographies—FREE (USGenWeb Archives)

• County-wide
• California State Dental Association Members, Second District, Santa Clara County, 1933-34—FREE
• Attorneys and Bankers Directory, 1908-09—FREE (Golden Nugget Library)

• Census of Pueblo San Jose, 1777—FREE
• Census of San Jose, 1790—FREE
• 1852 California Census (includes Santa Clara County)—FREE & $$$$
• 1860 Santa Clara County Federal Census—FREE
• Alviso, Burnett, Fremont, Gilroy, Redwood City, San Jose, Santa Clara Township
• 1870 Santa Clara County Federal Census—FREE (USGenWeb)
• transcribed by Edward Black and proofed by Cynthia Biasca.
• Almaden, Alviso, Burnett, Fremont, Gilroy, Milpitas, Redwood City, San Jose, Santa Clara City
• 1930 Santa Clara County Every Name Index by the Santa Clara County Historical & Genealogical Society
• U.S. Federal Census Records (1860-1930)—FREE & $$$$

San Jose
First Unitarian Church Roster, San Jose, 1888—FREE
Trinity Church, San Jose, 1860 to 1903—pages 1-46, pages 47-92—FREE

County-wide
1957-1958 California Pioneers of Santa Clara County—FREE
1980 California Pioneers of Santa Clara County—FREE

Gilroy
1882 Keith Lodge (Freemasons)—FREE

Mayfield
1890 Charter Members of Native Sons of the Golden West, Mayfield Parlor—FREE
1894 Officers and Members of Native Sons of the Golden West, Mayfield Parlor—FREE
1903 I.O.O.F., Lodge No. 192 Officers—FREE

Mountain View
1882 Mountain View Lodge (Freemasons)—FREE

Palo Alto

San Jose
1882 San Jose Lodge (Freemasons)—FREE
1882 Friendship Lodge (Freemasons)—FREE
Societies, 1888—FREE
1889 Sainte Claire Club Roll of Membership—FREE

Santa Clara
1882 Santa Clara Lodge (Freemasons)—FREE
Native Sons of the Golden West, Charter Members of Santa Clara Parlor, 1902—FREE

County-wide

Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Telephone Directory, 1893—FREE
Prominent Citizens of Santa Clara County , 1895—FREE (Golden Nugget Library)
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co., 1898 (March) Telephone Directory(images only)—FREE (Golden Nugget Library)
Santa Clara County Directory, 1875—FREE
Telephone Directory, 1916 (images)—FREE (by Golden Nugget Library)
Santa Clara County Telephone Directory, 1933—FREE (Vitalsearch)
1940 Telephone Directory (images)—FREE (by Golden Nugget Library)

Gilroy
Gilroy 1870 Business Directory—FREE (santaclararesearch.net)

Los Altos
Los Altos Blue Book, 1924—FREE
Los Altos Blue Book, 1925—FREE (Golden Nugget Library)
1940, 1944, 1945, 1947 Los Gatos City Directory—$$$$ (Ancestry.com)

Los Gatos
Los Gatos Telephone Directory, 1972—$$$$ (ancestry.com)

Mayfield
Mayfield Directory, 1904—FREE
Palo Alto, Mayfield, Menlo Park City Directory, 1904—FREE (Google books)
Mayfield Directory, 1911—FREE
Palo Alto, Mayfield, Runnymede, Stanford City Directory, 1923—FREE (Google books)

Palo Alto
Palo Alto City Directory, 1895-1896—FREE
Palo Alto, Stanford City Directory, 1897-1898—FREE (Google books)
Palo Alto Social Directory, 1899—FREE (Golden Nugget Library)
Palo Alto City Directory, 1900-1901—FREE
Palo Alto, Mayfield, Menlo Park City Directory, 1904—FREE (Google books)
Palo Alto Blue Book, 1921-1922—FREE
Who's Who Among Palo Alto Women 1922—FREE
Palo Alto, Mayfield, Runnymede, Stanford City Directory, 1923—FREE (Google books)
Palo Alto Blue Book, 1924—FREE
Palo Alto Blue Book, 1925—FREE(Golden Nugget Library)
Palo Alto City Directory, 1926—FREE (distantcousin.com)
1936 through 1944 Palo Alto City Directory—$$$$ (Ancestry.com)
Palo Alto Telephone Directory, 1951—FREE (by Golden Nugget Library)

San Jose
San Jose, 1870—$$$$ (ancestry.com)
San Jose Social Register, 1899—FREE (Golden Nugget Library)
San Jose Blue Book Directory, 1924—FREE
San Jose Blue Book, 1925—FREE (Golden Nugget Library)
1936 through 1947 San Jose City Directory—$$$$ (Ancestry.com)
San Jose Telephone Directory, 1972—$$$$ (ancestry.com)

Santa Clara
1944, 1945, 1947 Santa Clara City Directory—$$$$ (Ancestry.com)

Stanford
Palo Alto, Stanford City Directory, 1897-1898—FREE (Google books)
Palo Alto, Mayfield, Runnymede, Stanford City Directory, 1923—FREE
Stanford University Telephone Directory, 1951—FREE (by Golden Nugget Library)

• Louis Christian GRIPENSTROH—FREE
• Louis Arthur GRIPENSTROH—FREE

• Amos Williams Funeral Home Books Index—FREE (Santa Clara County Historical & Genealogical Society)
• Files available at Santa Clara Central Library
• E. E. Place Funeral Home and C. S. Topping Funeral Parlors Index—FREE
• Files available at the Los Gatos Library.
• Index: Pages 1-10, Pages 11-20, Pages 21-30, Pages 31-40, Pages 41-47
• Copies of index by permission of Los Gatos Library.

• Santa Clara City Government, Officers, 1851 - 1876—FREE

• County Recorder Map Book Collection—FREE (Santa Clara County Archives)
• "The Recorder Map Books consist of approximately 5,900 maps recorded with the county dating from circa 1850 to 1957. Recorded documents include subdivisions, surveys of property, cemetery plans, and other maps. Information on each map includes date recorded, person recorded for, and title of survey. "
• County Survey Collection—FREE (Santa Clara County Archives)
• "Collection consists of approximately 1,700 surveys ...from the 1890s until the 1960s.... The surveys are of private property, both rural and urban, and typically include one or more maps or drawings and pages of calculations and/or written descriptions of property boundaries."
• Index to Federal Land Records for California (including Santa Clara County)—FREE
• Data provided by Larry M. Vredenburgh of the Bureau of Land Management, Dept. of the Interior;  formatted for The USGenWeb Archives by Joy Fisher

• San Jose High School Graduates Serving in World War I, 1918—FREE
• World War II Casualties (Army and Air Force)—FREE

• 1930 California Academy of Medicine Members—FREE
• Name Index for the Atlas of Sonoma County, 1877—FREE
• Football Players, Mountain View and Fremont High Schools, 1965—FREE
• Scrapbook Index—FREE (Santa Clara County Historical & Genealogical Society)
• files available at Santa Clara Central Library
• Notaries Public from California Blue Books, various years 1886-1909)—FREE (Golden Nugget Library)
• includes Santa Clara County Notaries

• County Naturalization Index, 1850-1934—FREE (Santa Clara County Archives)
• "This Naturalization Index lists 8000 individuals naturalized in Santa Clara County courts from 1850 to 1934. Each entry may include the name of the person naturalized, their nationality, the date of admission, the court in which they were naturalized, and a book and page reference."

• San Jose Mercury News—$$$$ (genealogybank.com)
• 02 Jan 1886 to 31 Dec 1916
• San Jose Evening News—$$$$ (genealogybank.com)
• 01 Jan 1898 to 30 Dec 1922
• San Jose Mercury News Historical Archive (1886-1922)—FREE  (through participating libraries using NewsBank, including Santa Clara Public Library)
• San Jose Mercury News—FREE  (through participating libraries using NewsBank, including San Jose Public Library)
• Full text articles/death notices from January 1985 to present.
• The Stanford Daily Archive (1892-present)—FREE

• Mountain View Historic Obituaries—FREE (Mountain View Public Library)
• Newspaper Abstracts Project (for Santa Clara County)—FREE
• An all-volunteer project with a searchable collection of newspaper abstracts and extracts from pre-1930 newspapers all over the U.S.
• Almanac News Obituaries—FREE (by Obitcentral.com)
• from 1998 to current, covers Menlo Park, Atherton, Portola Valley and Woodside
• San Mateo Times & Pacifica Tribune—FREE (by Obituary Daily Times)
• Palo Alto Historical Association Obituary Index—FREE
• Obituaries from various newspapers such as the San Francisco Chronicle, Peninsula Times Tribune, Palo Alto Times, Stanford, etc., from the 1890s.

• Palo Alto historical photographs—FREE (Palo Alto Historical Association)

• Early Settler File Index—FREE (Santa Clara County Historical & Genealogical Society)
• files available at Santa Clara Central Library

• Mayfield
• 1900 Precinct No. 1—FREE
• 1900 Precinct No. 2—FREE
• California Voter Registrations (various counties)—$$$$ (Ancestry.com)
• 1866-1898 
• 1900-1944