Santa Clara California FamilySearch Center/Holdings

Hardware and Equipment


 * Cannon 300 Image Reader and Printer for microfilm and microfiche
 * Photocopier
 * Fiche readers
 * Film readers - two with magnification lenses
 * Six internet connected computers on a server
 * Printers

Databases and Software


 * FHC Portal: This center has access to the Family History Center Portal page which gives free access in the center to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.

Collections


 * Family History Library Catalog: This center has the ability to order any of the films and fiche available through the Family History Library Catalog.
 * Santa Clara Family History Center On-line Catalog
 * State Collections: We have extensive vital record collections for Alabama, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, NOrth Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Sourth Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. See our catalog for a complete listing.
 * Over 5,000 sets of microfiche. See our catalog for a complete listing.

Alameda County

 * Birth, Marriage and Death Records
 * Census Records, 1860-1920
 * Great Registers
 * Church Vital Records
 * Naturalization Records Index
 * Probate Records

Contra Costa County

 * Brands &amp; Marks, 1850 -1917
 * Cemetery Records
 * Census Records, 1860 -1920
 * Land Claim Records
 * Death Records, 1873-1921
 * Estray Records, 1851-1888
 * Great Registers
 * Marriage Index, 1851-1941

Marin County

 * Birth Record Index, 1868-1905
 * Census Records, 1850-1920
 * Death Records Index, 1873-1905
 * 1890 Great Register
 * Marriage License Index, 1873-1934
 * Wills, 1854-1923

Monterey County

 * Birth Record Index, 1857-1942
 * Cemetery Records
 * Death Record Index, 1887-1927
 * Great Registers
 * Marriage Record Index, 1859-1923
 * Mission Register, 1797-1937

San Francisco County

 * Census Records, 1860-1920
 * Chinese &amp; Early Settlers
 * Death Record Index, 1865-1904
 * Church Vital Statistics
 * Marriage Record Index, 1860-1973
 * Naturalized Voters, 1850-1898
 * Naturalization Records
 * Pre-statehood Records, 1838-1851
 * Probate Index
 * Early Land Records

San Mateo County

 * Census Records, 1860-1920
 * Cemetery Records
 * Great Registers
 * Marriage Index, 1853-1899

Santa Clara County

 * Marriage Index, 1853-1899
 * Baptisms, 1777-1855
 * Birth Index, 1873-1901
 * Cemetery Records
 * Census Records, 1860-1920
 * Death Index, 1873-1905
 * Early Marriage Records, 1859-1862
 * Marriage Record Index, 1850-1917
 * Naturalization Record Index, 1831-1933
 * Obituary Index
 * Will &amp; Probate Index, 1850-1912

Santa Cruz County

 * Birth Index, 1850-1980
 * Census Records, 1850-1920
 * Death Index, 1850-1980
 * Great Register
 * Marriage Index, 1850-1978
 * Mission Register, 1797-1937
 * Will Records, 1851-1890

Sonoma County

 * Birth Index, 1858-1919
 * Census Records, 1850-1920
 * Death Records, 1873-1919
 * Declarations of Intention, 1850-1901
 * Land Deeds, 1857-1917
 * Marriage Index, 1846-1934
 * Naturalization Index, 1850-1985
 * Land Patents, 1812-1903
 * Will Index, 1852-1955

General

 * Tanguay’s Dictionnaire Genealogique Des Familles Canadiennes Depuis La Fondation De La Colonie Jusqu’a Nos Jours
 * Loyalists Lists
 * Lower Canada Marriage Bonds

New Brunswick

 * Cemetery Records
 * Church &amp; Misc. Records
 * Marriage Register, 1806-1889
 * Land Petitions, 1763-1860
 * Probate &amp; Court Records Index

Nova Scotia

 * Death Information from Town Books
 * Planters &amp; Pioneers
 * Staynor Collection
 * Vital Statistics from Newspapers

Ontario

 * Biographical &amp; Genealogical Card Index, 1780-1869
 * Birth Index, 1869-1905
 * Cemetery Records
 * Death Index, 1869-1931
 * Marriage Register Index, 1873-1921

Prince Edward Island

 * Baptism Index Prior to 1886
 * Death Index Prior to 1906
 * Marriage Index, 1843-1892
 * Probate Record Index, 1807-May 2000

Quebec

 * 1831 Census
 * Acadian Churches
 * Baptism Register, 1825-1910
 * Marriage Index, 1670-1964
 * Registres Paroissiaux, 1662-1876

England Collections

 * Boyd’s Marriage Index, 1538-1837
 * Index to the Civil Registration of Births
 * Marriages &amp; Deaths for England/Wales, 1837-1900
 * 1881 Census Index
 * The Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers
 * England Ordnance Survey Maps
 * National Inventory of Documentation Sources in the UK

Germany Collections

 * Hamburg Passenger Index
 * Regular Direct, 1850-1900
 * The Atlantic Bridge to Germany (10 volumes)
 * German Immigrants

Ireland Collections

 * Civil Registration-Births and Deaths, 1864-1921
 * Marriages, 1845-1921
 * Griffith’s Valuation
 * Householder’s Index
 * Irish Foreign Registration
 * Births, Deaths and Marriages of Irish Citizens in Continental Europe, 1864-1923
 * The Famine Immigrants, Volumes II-IV
 * 1841/1851 Census Abstracts (Northern Ireland &amp; Republic of Ireland)
 * Index to Irish Wills
 * A Guide to Irish Parish Registers

Scotland Collections

 * 1881 Census Index
 * Monumental Inscriptions
 * General Index to Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1855-1900
 * Old Parochial Record Index OPR. prior to 1855
 * Scottish Church Records

LDS Records Collections

 * Alphabetical Index to Ward &amp; Branch Organizations
 * Church Records, 1836-1845
 * Baptisms for the Dead, 1840-1845
 * Early Church Information File
 * Emigration Records, 1904-1914
 * European Mission, 1849-1885, 1899-1923
 * Scandinavian Mission, 1852-1920
 * Swedish Mission, 1905-1932
 * European Emigration Card Index, 1840-1925
 * Names of Persons and Sureties Indebted to the Perpetual Emigrating Fund from 1850-1877 inclusive
 * Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register
 * Records of Members, 1852-1946
 * Register of Family Group Sheets, Early to about 1950
 * Swedish Mormon Pioneers
 * Utah Immigration Card Index, 1847-1868