Santa Clara County Genealogy

Family History Library

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) maintains a Family History Library (FHL) in Salt Lake City, Utah. It contains an extensive amount of genealogical and historical resources for the entire world, some of which are on microfilm. Many of these resources can be requested from the main library and viewed at local Family History Centers (FHC) around the world. Some of the local centers maintain a permanent copies.

Below is a list of the resources from the FHL's catalog for Santa Clara County and whether they are available on MICROFILM. There may also be links to other FHCs in the San Francisco Bay area who maintain permanent copies.

Family History Centers
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Family History Center Locator
Los Altos
1300 Grant Road
Los Altos, CA
Phone: 650-968-1019

Milpitas
3110 Cropley Avenue
San Jose, CA
Phone: 408-259-5501

San Jose
4977 San Felipe Road
San Jose,CA
Phone: 408-274-8592

Santa Clara
875 Quince Ave
Santa Clara, CA
Phone: 408-241-1449
Some of their holdings include:

  • California Death Index 1905-1994 (see Norcal Resource Center for description)
  • California Marriage Index 1960-1986 (indexed by groom and bride)
  • Santa Clara County Affidavits for Correction of Birth Records, 1883-1968 (Film # 1302021 Item 2, 1302068 Item 2, 1302071 Items 2-3, 1302072)
  • Santa Clara County Delayed and Supplemental Reports of Birth, 1938-1967 (Film #s 1302021 Item 1, 1302021 Item 3, 1302068 Item 1, 1302068 Item 3)
  • Birth records, 1873-1905 (Film #s 1302069 Item 1, 1302071 Item 1, 1302069 Item 2, 1302070)
  • Santa Clara County Index to Marriages, 1859-1872 (Film #928257 Item 7)
  • Santa Clara County Marriage records, 1850-1905 (Film # 1302021 Item 8)
  • Santa Clara County Index to Marriage Records, 1893-1897 (Film #s 1302022 - 1302029
  • Card Index to Santa Clara County Marriage Licenses, ca. 1846-1946 (Film #s  1420196, 1420197, 1420198, 1420231, 1420232)
  • Record of marriages of Santa Clara, County, 1904-1917 (Film # 1468516 - 1468525)
  • Santa Clara County Death records, 1873-1905 (Film #s 1302029 Items 3-4, 1302030 Item 1)
  • Index to Baptismal Records, Santa Clara Mission, 1777-1855 (Film #1036271 Item 26)
  • Santa Clara County Federal Census Records, 1860 - 1920
  • Santa Clara County Naturalization Records, 1831-1933 (Film #s  1455370 - 1455385,  1468547, 1468548
  • Santa Clara County Will Books and Probate Records, ca. 1850-1912, with index
  • Early California Wills, Santa Clara County, 1850-1864 (Film # 844434 Item 2)

    • Family History Library Catalog
    for Santa Clara County, California
    last updated: 18 July 2005
    Archives and libraries
    Biography
    Cemeteries
    Church directories
    Church records
    Directories
    Genealogy - Societies - Periodicals
    Guardianship - Indexes
    History
    History - Indexes
    History - Societies - Periodicals
    Land and property
    Land and property - Maps
    Language and languages
    Maps
    Naturalization and citizenship
    Obituaries - Indexes
    Probate records
    Probate records - Indexes
    Societies - Periodicals - Indexes
    Vital records
    Vital records - Indexes
    Voting registers    		 Alma
    Alviso
    Burbank
    Campbell
    Cupertino
    Gilroy
    Los Altos
    Los Altos Hills
    Los Gatos
    Mayfield
    Milpitas
    Monte Sereno
    Morgan Hill
    New Almaden
    Palo Alto
    San Jose
    San Martin
    Santa Clara
    Saratoga
    Stanford

    ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES BIOGRAPHY CEMETERIES CHURCH DIRECTORIES CHURCH RECORDS DIRECTORIES GENEALOGY - SOCIETIES - PERIODICALS GUARDIANSHIP - INDEXES HISTORY HISTORY - INDEXES HISTORY - SOCIETIES - PERIODICALS LAND AND PROPERTY LAND AND PROPERTY - MAPS LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES MAPS NATURALIZATION AND CITIZENSHIP OBITUARIES - INDEXES PROBATE RECORDS PROBATE RECORDS - INDEXES SOCIETIES - PERIODICALS - INDEXES VITAL RECORDS VITAL RECORDS - INDEXES VOTING REGISTERS

    ALMA ALVISO BURBANK CAMPBELL CUPERTINO GILROY LOS ALTOS LOS ALTOS HILLS LOS GATOS MAYFIELD MILPITAS MONTE SERENO MORGAN HILL NEW ALMADEN PALO ALTO
  • [Records of the] Hoover Institution, Stanford University / Stanford University (Stanford, California) MICROFILM
  • Cemetery records, Alta Mesa Memorial cemetery, Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, County, California and sextons records
  • Record of members, 1934-1941; annual genealogical report, Form E, 1935- 1948 / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Palo Alto Ward (California) MICROFILM
  • Directory of Palo Alto, Mayfield, Runnymede and Stanford University for 1921-22 / Stanford University (Stanford, California)MICROFILM
  • Palo Alto (California) city directories MICROFILM
  • Polk's Palo Alto (Santa Clara County, California) city directory including Stanford, 1929, 1940 / R. L. Polk and Company
  • History of Palo Alto, the early years / Gullard, Pamela
  • Palo Alto : a centennial history / Winslow, Ward
  • Vital records from family Bibles [Volume 5 ...contains an index to marriages and births from the Palo Alto Times, 1893-1894, 1896-1897]/ Daughters of the American Revolution (California). Genealogical Record Committee MICROFILM
    • SAN JOSE
  • Biography
  • The history of San Jose and surroundings, with biographical sketches of early settlers : illustrated with map and engravings on stone / Hall, Frederic MICROFILM
  • Military records of service men / Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1861-1865. Kate B. Sherwood Tent #1 (San Jose, California) MICROFILM
  • Cemeteries
  • Cemetery headstone inscriptions ca. 1838-1985 / Oak Hill Cemetery (San Jose, California) MICROFILM
  • Cemetery headstone inscriptions, 1850-1899 / Kell (or Holy Cross) Cemetery (San Jose, California) MICROFILM
  • Cemetery inscriptions of unmarked graves, ca. 1922-1950 / Oak Hill Cemetery (San Jose, California) MICROFILM
  • Cemetery inscriptions, ca. 1882-1987 / Calvary Catholic Cemetery (San Jose, California) MICROFILM
  • Census
  • Extracts of census records, 1799 / Catholic Church. Mission San Jose de Guadalupe (San Jose, California) MICROFILM
  • California 1790 census : cities of Los Angeles, Monterey, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, and Santa Barbara / Morgan, Sue Powell
  • City census, 1897 / San Jose (California). City Clerk MICROFILM
  • Church Records
  • Two Centuries at Mission San Jose, 1797-1997 / Holmes, Philip MICROFILM
  • Annual genealogical report, Form E, 1946-1948 / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Naglee Park Ward (California) MICROFILM
  • Annual genealogical report, Form E, 1946-1948 / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Willow Glen Ward (California) MICROFILM
  • Church records, 1874-1916 / United Presbyterian Church (San Jose, California) MICROFILM
  • Church records, 1891-1919 / Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. San Jose Branch (San Jose, California) MICROFILM
  • Extracts of census records, 1799 / Catholic Church. Mission San Jose  de Guadalupe (San Jose, California) MICROFILM
  • Extracts of church records, 1797-1822 / Catholic Church. Mission San Jos  de Guadalupe (San Jose, California) MICROFILM
  • Record of members, 1920-1941; annual genealogical report, Form E, 1935-1948 / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. San Jose Ward (California) MICROFILM
  • Directories
  • Polk's San Jose subn. (Santa Clara County, Calif.) city directory : including: Campbell, Cupertino, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Santa Clara, & Saratoga / R. L. Polk and Company
  • San Jose (California) city directories MICROFILM
  • San Jose (Santa Clara County, Calif.) city directory : including Santa Clara, also a buyers's guide and a complete classified business directory / R. L. Polk and Company
  • San Jose and Santa Clara City directory / Polk-Husted Directory Company (Sacramento, California) MICROFILM
  • San Jose City and Santa Clara County directory / Polk-Husted Directory Company (Oakland, California) MICROFILM
  • The San Jose city directory : and business guide of Santa Clara Co., for the year commencing January 1, 1870, being a complete directory of the residents within the city of San Jose ... / Colahan, W. J
  • San Jose city directory : including Santa Clara, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, San Benito, and Monterey counties, 1889, 1899 MICROFILM
  • San Jose directory, 1882-83 MICROFILM
  • Genealogy - Periodicals
  • Success quarterly / San Jose Branch Genealogical Library (Ca.)
  • History
  • Historical sketch of the State Normal School at San José, California, 1862-1889 : with a catalogue of its graduates and a record of their work for twenty-seven years / State Normal School (San Jose, California) MICROFILM
  • The history of San Jose and surroundings, with biographical sketches of early settlers : illustrated with map and engravings on stone / Hall, Frederic MICROFILM
  • [History of San José] Clyde Arbuckle's history of San José : chronicling San José's founding as California's earliest pueblo in 1777, through exciting and tumultuous history which paved the way for today's metropolitan San José / Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-
  • Two Centuries at Mission San Jose, 1797-1997 / Holmes, Philip
  • Military Records
  • Military records of service men / Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1861-1865. Kate B. Sherwood Tent #1 (San Jose, California) MICROFILM
  • Records, 1910-1926 / Grand Army of the Republic. Department of California andNevada. Col. A.G. Bennett Post, no. 196 (San Jose, California) MICROFILM
  • Obituaries
  • Obituaries in the San Jose Mercury, San Jose, California, 1979 / Kelly, Jacqueline Strobel MICROFILM
  • Santa Clara County obituary index for the Evening News, Morning Times, Mercury News, and Daily Herald newspapers, ca. 1877-1901 / San Jose Historical Museum (San Jose, California) MICROFILM
  • Vital Records
  • Record of births, city of San Jose v. C,1 1889-1905 / Santa Clara County (California). Recorder MICROFILM
  • Record of deaths, city of San Jose v. C,1-2 1889-1905 / Santa Clara County (California). Recorder MICROFILM
  • Registro misional, 1835-1859 / Catholic Church. Mission San Jos  de Guadalupe (San Jose, California) MICROFILM
    • SAN MARTIN
  • Polk's Gilroy-Morgan Hill-San Martin (Santa Clara County, Calif.) city directory, 1973 / R. L. Polk and Company
    • SANTA CLARA
  • Santa Clara sagas / Warburton, Austen D
  • Cemetery headstone inscriptions, 1863-1984 / Mission City Memorial Park (Santa Clara, California) MICROFILM
  • History of First Presbyterian Church of Santa Clara / First Presbyterian Church (Santa Clara, California) MICROFILM
  • Church records 1863-1905 (Santa Clara, California) / Westminster Presbyterian Church (Santa Clara, California) MICROFILM
  • Extracts of church records, 1778-1863 / Catholic Church. Mission Santa Clara de As s (Santa Clara, California) MICROFILM
  • Polk's San Jose subn. (Santa Clara County, Calif.) city directory : including: Campbell, Cupertino, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Santa Clara, & Saratoga / R. L. Polk and Company MICROFILM
  • San Jose (California) city directories MICROFILM
  • San Jose and Santa Clara City directory / Polk-Husted Directory Company (Sacramento, California) MICROFILM
  • Index and funeral home records to the Amos O. Williams and other Santa Clara County Funeral books, 1902-1953 & 1957-1979 / Shields, Debbie MICROFILM
  • The University of Santa Clara : a history, 1851-1977 / McKevitt, Gerald
    • SARATOGA STANFORD
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