Check out FamilySearch’s California Online Genealogy Records for comprehensive list of links, both free and fee-based.
Explore these free online databases for California:
California, Birth Index, 1905-1995
California, Births and Christenings, 1812-1988
California, Cemetery Transcriptions, 1850-1960
California, Collections of the California Genealogical Society, 1700-1942
California, County Birth and Death Records, 1849-1994
California, County Marriages, 1850-1952
California, Death Index, 1905-1939
California, Death Index, 1940-1997
California, Divorce Index, 1966-1984
California, Great Registers, 1866-1910
California, Los Angeles Passenger Lists, 1907-1948
California, Marriage Index, 1960-1985
California, Marriages, 1850-1945
California, Northern U.S. District Court Naturalization Index, 1852-1989
California, Probate Estate Files,1833-1991
California, San Diego Naturalization Index, 1868-1958
California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records, 1835-1979
California, San Francisco County Records, 1824-1997
California, San Francisco Passenger Lists, 1893-1953
California, San Francisco, World War I Enemy Alien Registration Affidavits, 1918
California, San Joaquin, County Public Library Obituary Index, 1850-1991
California, San Mateo County Records, 1851-1991
California, San Mateo County, Colma, Italian Cemetery Records, 1899-2011
California, Southern District Court (Central) Naturalization Index, 1915-1976
California, State Census, 1852
Men of the Pacific Coast, 1902-3
Online Digital Newspaper Collections Listed in Genealogy’s Star:
- California Digital Newspaper Collection
- Torrance Public Library
- Online Archive of California
- California State Library, Newspapers (microfilm)
- Whittier Public Library, Digital Archives
- Covina Newspaper Archives (1895-1999)
- El Clamor Publico (1855-1859 (Los Angeles)
- California State University Northridge Oviatt Library Digital Collections
- Claremont Colleges Digital Library
- Digital Archives of the Covina Public Library
- Grass Valley Daily Union Newspaper Archives
- Sacramento State University Library Digital Collections
- San Fernando Valley History Digital Library
- University of California Calisphere
- University of Southern California Libraries Digital Collections
- Fullerton College Library, Online Archives
