California Vital Record Batch Numbers by County

This is a guide to the index of California Vital Records microfilmed and listed at:

There is a great deal of information which can be found on the website listed above to those who know how to search it. Using the county batch record numbers is a quick way to figure out if your ancestors record is located at a county courthouse in California. The church members have voluntarily traveled around the country and microfilmed available courthouse and church records and made them searchable online. Below is listed the batch record numbers by county which are to the indexes for these microfilmed records. Basic information is provided for each record. You can use the information to order a copy of your ancestors record from a family history library near you or a specific county courthouse as the volume of the probate record is often listed. Try many different spellings for your ancestors surnames as courthouse clerks often mispelled first and last names.

How to use our Vital Records Search

Happy Hunting!

Note: Some titles may seem to repeat but they represent different areas of a county or different records such as microfilmed church records to research.