How to Obtain California Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates
This page provides information on obtaining copies of California
birth certificates, California marriage licenses, California divorce
decrees and California death records. There are also useful
links to past California Vital Records for those of you conducting
family history research. General information about US vital
records can be viewed on this site's homepage
California birth, marriage and death certificates may be obtained
from the following government office:
Office of Vital Records
CA Department of Public Health
MS: 5103
P.O. Box 997410 Sacramento, CA 95899-7410
California birth, marriage and death certificate order forms as
well as more information are available on the following
pages:
The California Department of Public Health may be contacted
by phone on (916) 445-2684 or online at http://ww2.cdph.ca.gov/certlic/birthdeathmar/Pages/default.aspx
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Other California Vital Records Resources
I have included these additional sites because they may
contain California vital records (birth records, marriage records,
divorce records or death records) that you might find useful
if you are conducting genealogy research:
NewspaperObituaries.net - California a
directory of thousands of obituaries with a page of
obituary indexes for each California county
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Vital Records Online search over 1 Billion records online
World's Largest Newspaper Archive
instantly search 12 million newspaper pages of birth, marriage, death and obituary announcements etc. from 1690 - today California Birth Records free online birth indexes for California
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California Marriage Records Online - a comprehensive collection
of many online marriage databases for California indexed in
county order
USGenweb Archives
Project - California USGenWeb is an archive of free databases
including vital and other records such as marriages, church
records, wills,censusesand cemetery records.
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