California State Vital Records and Census Data at Awesome Genealogy

California State Vital Records
California State Vital Records Office Office of Vital Records 304 S. Street Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 445-1719 Records include birth, marriage, divorce, and death records since July 1905 Check out our FREE sample letter you can use to send to vital records offices!

Articles California, 1876 Letter to the Editor: Narratives of Early California California and the Sierra Nevada Region, 1833-60 California and the Southwest, 1763-1802 Southern California Genealogical Society (SCGS) and Family Research Library Annual Writing Contest Fort Miller (Fresno), California, 1872 NEHGS Comes to San Diego, California Oregon and Upper California, 1848 California Native American Repatriation Bill California and the Southwest, 1763-1802 California and the Sierra-Nevada Region, 1833-60 California, 1876 California State Records Access Hearing Set for 7 May California & Sierra Nevada Region, 1833-1860 The French in Early California The Mayflower of French Argonauts to California Oregon and Upper California, 1848 Databases 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, Oakhurst, California California Census, 1790-1890 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 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, California, Naturalization Records: 1852 - 1932 Sacramento California, Sacramento Bee Newspaper 1889 - 1890: vital records California State Roster, 1899 Government and Military records Sacramento California, Sacramento Beenewspaper 1859, Obituaries, Marriages, Births Ojai Valley, California Directory, 1938 Yuba, Sutter, Colusa, Butte, and Tehama Counties, California Directory, 1885 Pomona, California Directory, 1896-97 Nevada County, California Directory, 1895 California Birth Index, 1905-10 California - State Fact Sheet California State Roster, 1909 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 Daniel Woods, Sixteen Months in California, 1849-50 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 Monterey, California Census, 1850-60 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 California, Vol. 1 William Ryan, Adventures in California, 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 Los Angeles, California City Directories, 1888-90 Henry Brewer, Surveying California, 1860-64 San Francisco, California Directories, 1889-91 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
Search Aids

Family History Centers
What is a Family History Center? Family History Centers are branches of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Centers provide access to many of the microfilms and microfiche in the Family History Library to help you identify your ancestors. Location and Hours There are more than 3,400 centers worldwide. To find a Family History Center near you, see the list of addresses below. Before you visit, you should contact the center to verify when it is open. Services Staff members will show you around the center, answer some research questions (research expertise in each center varies), help you use center resources, and order microfilms and microfiche from the Family History Library. Many centers offer classes on different genealogical research topics. Resources Most centers have a computer with FamilySearch, which helps you search for information about your ancestors. FamilySearch includes Family History Library Catalog, International Genealogical Index, Ancestral File, Social Security Death Index, Scottish Church Records and the United States Military Index Most also have Personal Ancestral File, a computer program that allows you to organize your family history information. Most centers also have a variety of resource files, microfilms, microfiche and published material such as genealogies, histories, gazetteers, atlases and maps at your disposal.
Family History Centers Near You

Other Resources Information about state archives and libraries: Write to: California State Archives Division of the Secretary of State's Office 1020 "O" Street Sacramento, CA 95814 Telephone: (916) 653-7715 Hours: Monday-Friday 9:30-4:00, closed Saturday, Sunday, and all state holidays Records include state and federal census records, military records from 1860 to 1945, county records from 1860 to 1987, and Supreme and Appellate court cases from 1850 to 1970. Information about state genealogical societies: Write to: California Genealogical Society 1611 Telegraph Ave., Suite 200 Oakland, CA 94612-2152 Telephone: (510) 663-1358 Hours: Wednesday-Thursday and Saturday 9:00-4:00, closed Sunday-Tuesday and Friday Publications: CGS News, The Nugget (general genealogy) California Historical Society 678 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Telephone: (415) 357-1848 Los Angeles Westside Genealogical Society P.O. Box 10447 Marina del Rey, CA 90295 Napa Valley Genealogical & Biographical Society 1701 Menlo Napa, CA 94558 Telephone: (707) 252-2252 Orange County Genealogical Society 7111 Talbert Avenue Huntington Beach, CA 92648 San Diego Genealogical Society 1050 Pioneer Way, Suite E El Cajon, CA 92020-1943 Telephone: (619) 588-0065 San Luis Obispo Genealogical Society, Inc. P.O. Box 4 Atascadero, CA 93423-0004 Southern California Genealogical Society P.O. Box 4377 Burbank, CA 91503 Telephone: (818) 843-7247