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Searching for California birth records, California census records, California marriage records, or California death records? How about a free genealogy search? Find help for your family history search and building your family tree. |
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California Genealogy Databases
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California Genealogy Help Vital records, as their name suggests, are connected with central life events: birth, marriage, and death. Maintained by civil authorities, these public records are prime sources of genealogical information. These records are critically important in genealogy research, often supplying details on family members well back into the nineteenth century. There are many sources for birth, death and marriage events that are not in the California vital records office. Cemeteries, church records, newspapers, military records, immigration and naturalization records, as well as family records in letters and Bibles, are all places where evidence of vital events might be found. Once California vital records have been researched, and especially if none are available for the location and time period required, a good procedure would be to try to locate your California ancestors using California census records. Every state has a division charged with the responsibility of maintaining and dispersing public information from its vital record holdings. Each state page on this website indicates the availability of birth records, marriage records, death records, and divorce records and the agencies responsible for maintaining them. |
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California Vital Records Information (How to contact the Vital Records Department of California) Event: Birth Cost of copy: $12.00 Address: Remarks: State office has had records since July 1905. For earlier records, write to County Recorder in county where event occurred. Check or money order should be made payable to State Registrar, Department of Health Services or Office of Vital Records. Personal checks are accepted. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (916) 445-2684. Event: Death Cost of copy: $8.00 Address: Remarks: State office has had records since July 1905. For earlier records, write to County Recorder in county where event occurred. Check or money order should be made payable to State Registrar, Department of Health Services or Office of Vital Records. Personal checks are accepted. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (916) 445-2684. Event: Marriage Cost of copy: $12.00 Address: Remarks: State office has had records since July 1905. For earlier records, write to County Recorder in county where event occurred. Event: Divorce Cost of copy: $12.00 Address: Remarks: Fee is for search and identification of county where certified copy can be obtained (years 1962 thru 1984 only). For all other years or for a copy of the decree, write to County clerk in County where event occurred. Certified copies of decrees are not available from State Health Department. Event: Divorce (county) Cost of copy: Varies Address: See remarks Remarks: Clerk of Superior Court in county where divorce was granted. |
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