California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994
Registers, records and certificates of county birth and death records acquired from county courthouses. This collection contains some delayed birth records, as well. Some city and towns records are also included. Records have not been acquired for Contra Costa, Imperial, Kern, Kings, Modoc, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Siskiyou, Solano, Tulare and Ventura counties. The name index for death records covers Stockton, Lodi and Manteca cities and San Benito and San Joaquin counties.
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California, County Birth and Death Records
What is in This Collection?
This collection includes birth and death records from 1800 to 1994. The collection consists of an index & images to registers, records, and certificates of county birth and death records acquired from county courthouses. This collection contains some delayed birth records as well. Some city and town records are also included. Some images are not available for viewing between the years 1824-1974.
Additional records and/or images may be added to this collection in the future.
To Browse This Collection
| You can browse through images in this collection using the waypoints on the Collection Browse Page for California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994. |
What Can These Records Tell Me?
The following information may be found in these records:
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Collection Content
Sample Image
Birth record, Los Angeles County, 1920
Death record, Butte County, 1891
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Coverage Table - Births
This table shows the number of record in this collection for each county. To search a specific county click the link in the Search column. Where the county could not be determined the records are listed as California (state)
| County | Records |
|---|---|
| Alameda | 52,041 |
| Alpine | 0 |
| Amador | 0 |
| Butte | 0 |
| Calaveras | 0 |
| Colusa | 1 |
| Contra Costa | 1 |
| Del orte | 0 |
| El Dorado | 0 |
| Fresno | 56,519 |
| Glenn | 530 |
| Humboldt | 2 |
| Imperial | 2 |
| Inyo | 4 |
| Kern | 4 |
| Kings | 0 |
| Lake | 1 |
| Lassen | 374 |
| Los Angeles | 519,737 |
| Madera | 1 |
| Marin | 6 |
| Mariposa | 0 |
| Mendocino | 1,225 |
| Merced | 0 |
| Modoc | 2 |
| Mono | 0 |
| Monterey | 3,130 |
| Napa | 1 |
| Nevada | 1 |
| Orange | 19,129 |
| Placer | 1 |
| Plumas | 0 |
| Riverside | 4,688 |
| Sacramento | 2,867 |
| San Benito | 0 |
| San Bernardino | 27,696 |
| San Diego | 4,706 |
| San Francisco | 0 |
| San Joaquin | 1 |
| San Luis&20Obispo | 0 |
| San Mateo | 0 |
| Santa Barbara | 20,590 |
| Santa Clara | 20,762 |
| Santa Cruz | 6,038 |
| Shasta | 3 |
| Sierra | 0 |
| Siskiyou | 0 |
| Solano | 1 |
| Sonoma | 22,747 |
| Stanislaus | 0 |
| Sutter | 3,618 |
| Tehama | 0 |
| Trinity | 0 |
| Tulare | 1 |
| Tuolumne | 0 |
| Ventura | 2 |
| Yolo | 2 |
| Yuba | 0 |
| California (state) | 39,842 |
Coverage Table - Deaths
This table shows the number of record in this collection for each county. To search a specific county click the link in the Search column. Where the county could not be determined the records are listed as California (state)
| County | Records | |
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| Alameda | 3 | |
| Alpine | 0 | |
| Amador | 0 | |
| Butte | 1 | |
| Calaveras | 1 | |
| Colusa | 0 | |
| Contra Costa | 0 | |
| Del Norte | 0 | |
| El Dorado | 0 | |
| Fresno | 2 | |
| Glenn | 0 | |
| Humboldt | 0 | |
| Imperial | 1 | |
| Inyo | 0 | |
| Kern | 0 | |
| Kings | 0 | |
| Lake | 0 | |
| Lassen | 0 | |
| Los Angeles | 4,527,508 | |
| Madera | 0 | |
| Marin | 0 | |
| Mariposa | 0 | |
| Mendocino | 0 | |
| Merced | 0 | |
| Modoc | 0 | |
| Mono | 0 | |
| Monterey | 0 | |
| Napa | 0 | |
| Nevada | 0 | |
| Orange | 10 | |
| Placer | 0 | |
| Plumas | 1 | |
| Riverside | 0 | |
| Sacramento | 2 | |
| San Benito | 0 | |
| San Bernardino | 0 | |
| San Diego | 338 | |
| San Francisco | 3 | |
| San Joaquin | 106,358 | |
| San Luis Obispo | 0 | |
| San Mateo | 1 | |
| Santa Barbara | 0 | |
| Santa Clara | 0 | |
| Santa Cruz | 0 | |
| Shasta | 0 | |
| Sierra | 0 | |
| Siskiyou | 0 | |
| Solano | 0 | |
| Sonoma | 1 | |
| Stanislaus | 3 | |
| Sutter | 0 | |
| Tehama | 0 | |
| Trinity | 0 | |
| Tulare | 0 | |
| Tuolumne | 0 | |
| Ventura | 0 | |
| Yolo | 0 | |
| Yuba | 1 | |
| California (state) | 1,520 |
Collection Details
Location of Original Records
California State Archives, Sacramento
"California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994." Database with images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 1 May 2026. California State Archives, Sacramento.
