Databases (Santa Clara County)
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Biographies
Books
Business
Census
- Santa Clara County Federal Census, 1860 (Alviso, Burnett, Fremont, Gilroy, Redwood City, San Jose, Santa Clara Township)
- Santa Clara County Federal Census, 1870 (Almaden, Alviso, Burnett, Fremont, Gilroy, Milpitas, Redwood City, San Jose, Santa Clara City)
Clubs
- County-wide
- Club Women of California, 1915 (Golden Nugget Library)
- Gilroy
- Mayfield
- Mountain View
- San Jose
- American Association of University Women, California State Division, 1928-1929 (Golden Nugget Library)
- Santa Clara
Ethnic
Government
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- Oaths of Office - Book A “([C]onsist of 219 oaths taken by county elected and appointed officials, copies of notices of appointment and revocations of appointments, and copies of bonds posted for the period 1850 to 1854.)”
- State Asylums, 1891 (Golden Nugget Library)
Great Registers
- Mayfield
Hospitals
Hotel Guests
Immigration
Land
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- County Recorder Map Book Collection (“The Recorder Map Books consist of approximately 5,900 maps recorded with the county dating from circa 1850 to 1957. Recorded documents include subdivisions, surveys of property, cemetery plans, and other maps. Information on each map includes date recorded, person recorded for, and title of survey.)”
- County Survey Collection (“Collection consists of approximately 1,700 surveys … from the 1890s until the 1960s … The surveys are of private property, both rural and urban, and typically include one or more maps or drawings and pages of calculations and/or written descriptions of property boundaries.”)
- General Index of Property Records “([Collection includes] all property records (deeds, mortgages, chattel mortgages, land patents, homesteads, etc.) This index exists from all property records from 1850 to present.”)
Maps
Maritime
Miscellaneous
- Family Pages
- Notaries Public (includes those from Santa Clara)
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- County Photographers' Collection (“Collection consists of over 57,000 images which depict a wide array of the County's activities and development between 1950 and 1993.”)
- County Office of Planning Photographs (“Collection consists of 1,264 photographs, approximately 3,600 slides and two films.”)
- Register of Dentists (“[C]onsists of 94 registrations from 1903 to 1922.”)
- Register of Doctors' Certificates (“[C]onsist of 478 registrations from 1916 to 1943.”)
Military
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- Militia Enrollment (“[A] list of 2,301 men who enrolled in the militia from 1873 to 1874.”)
Mortuaries
- E. E. Place Funeral Home and C. S. Topping Funeral Parlors, Los Gatos (Copies of index by permission of Los Gatos Library.)
The Los Gatos Library also has funeral home records from the Place Funeral Home, Charles S. Topping, Melvin's Funeral Home, Chapel of the Hills, and West Valley Funeral Home, all of which are being indexed by the Santa Clara County Historical and Genealogical Society (SCCHGS). (03-2024)
Naturalization
- Santa Clara County Archives, County Naturalization Index (“This Naturalization Index lists 8000 individuals naturalized in Santa Clara County courts from 1850 to 1934. Each entry may include the name of the person naturalized, their nationality, the date of admission, the court in which they were naturalized, and a book and page reference.”)
- Naturalization records, 1831-1933 (FamilySearch)
For more information on local naturalization records, take a look at L Naturalization Documents at the National Archives - Pacific Region (San Bruno).
Newspapers
- California Digital Newspaper Collection (as of Jan 2025)
- Campbell Press (Campbell, 1895-1954)
- Daily morning times (San Jose, 1879-1884)
- Los Gatos mail-news (Los Gatos, 1893-1915)
- Los Gatos news (Los Gatos, 1881-1915)
- Los Gatos star (Los Gatos, 1923-1929)
- Los Gatos times (Los Gatos, 1936-1990)
- San Jose daily Mercury (San Jose, 1861-1862)
- San Jose herald (San Jose, 1876-1900)
- San Jose Mercury-news (San Jose, 1869-1920)
- San Jose Times Star (San Jose, 1907-1908)
- San Jose weekly Mercury (San Jose, 1861-1892)
- Saratoga star (Saratoga, 1917-1923)
- San Jose Mercury News Historical Archive, 1886-1922 (Newsbank, available through local Santa Clara County libraries)
- San Jose Mercury News, 1985—present (Newsbank, available through local Santa Clara County libraries)
Orphans
Pioneers
Religious
Tax Assessment
Transportation
Vitals
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The California State Archives has offline records. (Marriage records, 1854-1955) (Probate, 1850–1920; Wills, 1866–1912; Birth, 1873–1905; Death, 1873–1905; Marriage, 1846–1919; Index to Obituaries, 1877–1901; Declarations of Intention, 1850–1930)
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- Birth: “The Clerk-Recorder's birth certificate records extend back to 1873.” (06/25/2020)
- Death: “The Clerk-Recorder's death certificates extend back to 1873.” (06/25/2020)
- Marriage: “The Clerk-Recorder's Office maintains marriage records from 1850 to the present day.” (06/25/2020)
- No Record of Marriage | Single Status: “This letter may be required in some foreign countries to establish that an applicant is free to marry.” (02/25/2022)
- Superior Court of California , County of Santa Clara
- Divorce
- Probate
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- Marriages, 1850-1978
- Deaths, 1850-1978
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- “The County Probate Cases Collection consists of approximately 2,100 cases heard by the Probate Court between May 1893 and September 1908.”
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- “The Coroner Inquests Collection consists of 9,300 reports of corner inquests from 1891 to 1932.”
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- “The County Wills Collection consists of approximately 10,000 wills filed with the County Clerk. The wills date from the early twentieth century into the 1970s, with the bulk of the wills from the years after 1940.”
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- FamilySearch
- Early California wills, Santa Clara County, 1850-1864 (FamilySearch)
- Probate Court register of actions, 1850-1920 (FamilySearch)
- Will books and probate records, ca. 1850-1912, with index (FamilySearch)
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- Births, 1890-1905
- Deaths, 1873-1905
- Marriages, 1905-1917
- Marriages-Brides, 1846-1946
- Marriages-Grooms, 1846-1946
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