California State Archives
Vital Records Collection
(source page | Archives information | table)
These records are available on microfilm and through inter-library loan,
except for those dates indicated in parentheses "()".
Source document: California State Archives, Local Government Records,
01/05.
| Counties | Birth | Death | Marriage | Probate | Bonds, letters, wills | Great Register |
| Alameda | 1854-1955 | |||||
| Amador* | 1905-1925 | 1854-1921 | 1866,
1880-1896 |
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| Butte | 1873-1918 | 1888-1939 | 1851-1933,
1949-1959 |
1850-1918 | 1866-1909 | |
| Colusa* | 1878-1921 | 1907-1922 | 1851-1930 | |||
| Contra Costa | ||||||
| El Dorado | 1878-1922 | 1907-1928 | 1859-1932 | 1850-1920 | 1867-1920 | |
| Fresno | 1873-1950 | 1878-1950 | 1856-1919 | 1880-1920 | ||
| Humboldt | 1853-1898 | |||||
| Imperial | 1903-1923 | |||||
| Marin | 1873-1919
(1920-1936) |
1850-1924 | 1853-1914 | 1866-1908 | ||
| Mendocino | 1854-1922
(1923-1942) |
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| Napa | 1893-1939 | 1851-1919 | 1849-1919 | |||
| Nevada* | 1880-1924 | |||||
| Placer | 1852-1938 | 1850-1937 | 1879-1929 | |||
| San Diego | 1886-1918 | wills
1880-1920 |
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| Santa Barbara | 1862 | wills
1852-1936 |
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| Santa Clara | 1873-1905 | 1873-1905 | 1846-1919 | 1850-1920 | wills
1866-1912 |
obituaries
1877-1901 |
| Siskiyou | (1896, indices
1902-1956) |
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| Sonoma | 1857-1921 | wills
1852-1955 |
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| Stanislaus | 1873-1905 | 1854-1920 | 1854-1921 | 1911-1921 | ||
| Sutter* | 1905-1926 | 1905-1921 | 1889-1930 | 1872-1926 | ||
| Yolo* | 1863-1913 | 1906-1920 | 1850-1923 | |||
| Yuba* | 1897-1923 | 1850-1932 |
| Counties | Declaration of
Intention |
Naturalization | Deeds | Homesteads | County, District,
Judicial, & Superior Court |
| Amador* | 1854-1950 | 1886-1901 | 1860-1936 | ||
| Butte | 1850-1930 | 1850-1910 | 1860-1927 | ||
| Colusa* | 1866-1909 | 1855-1930 | 1844-1911 | 1861-1927 | |
| El Dorado | 1850-1986 | 1851-1902 | 1860-1937 | ||
| Fresno | 1856-1934 | 1875-1900 | |||
| Glenn | (1891-1973) | ||||
| Humboldt | (1853-1883) | ||||
| Imperial | 1851-1907 | ||||
| Marin | 1850-1939 | ||||
| Mendocino | 1859-1901 | ||||
| Napa | 1856-1936 | 1856-1939 | |||
| Orange | 1889-1944 | 1889-1926 | |||
| Placer | 1863-1926 | 1852-1986 | 1851-1907 | 1861-1920 | |
| Sacramento | County Court Index,
1850-1879 |
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| Santa Barbara | 1850-1906 | 1856-1939 | 1844-1922 | (date unknown) | |
| Santa Clara | 1850-1930 | ||||
| Sonoma | 1891-1935 | 1850-1985 | 1847-1903 | (1848-1906) | |
| Stanislaus | 1854-1976 | 1856-1978 | 1854-1902 | 1860-1904 | |
| Sutter* | 1854-1927 | 1849-1904 | 1851-1937 | (1871-1927) | |
| Yolo* | 1850-1941 | 1874-1901 | 1861-1914 | ||
| Yuba* | 1851-1941 | 1888-1906 |
* Uncataloged records - dates and types of records only generally accurate.
Death: records may include indexes to deaths, registers of deaths.
Marriage: records may include indexes of marriages, marriage records, affidavits for marriage licenses.
Probate: records may include Probate Minutes, case files, indexes to Probate Minutes, and indexes to case files.
Bonds, letters, wills: may include indexes to bonds, letters and wills.
Great Register: [voter registration lists].
Declaration of Intention: [intention to become a naturalized citizen].
Naturalization: may include indexes to naturalizations.
Deeds: may include indexes to deeds.
Homestead: may include Homestead Declarations, indexes to Homesteads.
County,
District, Judicial, & Superior Court: may include case files, judgements,
registers, and fee books.