Inyo County, California Genealogy

United States California Inyow County

Guide to Inyo County, California ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

County Courthouse
County Clerk has birth and death records from 1904 marriage and land records from 1866 and mining records from 1872

Parent Counties
22 March 1866: Inyo County was created 22 March 1866 from Mono and Tulare Counties. County seat: Independence

Boundary Changes
For animated maps illustrating California county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation California County Boundary Maps" (1850-1925) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

Records Loss
For a list of record loss in California counties see: California Counties with Burned Courthouses

Populated Places
Big Pine, Bishop Cartago Darwin, Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek Furnace Creek Homewood Canyon-Valley Wells Independence Keeler Lone Pine Mesa Olancha Pearsonville Round Valley Shoshone Tecopa West Bishop

Neighboring Counties

 * Clark County, Nevada
 * Esmeralda County, Nevada
 * Fresno
 * Kern
 * Mono
 * Nye County, Nevada
 * San Bernardino
 * Tulare

Cemeteries
Shoshone cemetery

Tecopa cemetery

Church History and Records
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Bishop

Maps

 * Maps of California (1850-1925)



Probate Records
Online Probate Records
 * 1782 – 1999 California Wills and Probate Records 1782-1999 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
 * 1833 – 1991 at FamilySearch — images

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Bishop California Family History Center

Vital Records
See also How to order California Vital Records

Genealogy Societies, Archives and Libraries
Bishop Museum &amp; Historical Society P.O. Box 363 Bishop, CA 93514, Phone: (760) 873-5950 Bishop Museum and Historical Society

Friends of the Eastern California Museum P.O. Box 206 155 Grant Street Independence, CA 93526 Phone:760-878-364 or 760-878-0259-8

Historical Society of the Upper Mojave Desert P.O. Box 2001 230 W Ridgecrest Blvd. Ridgecrest, CA 93555 Phone: 760-675-8465 Historical Society of the Upper Mojave Desert

Searles Valley Historical Society P.O. Box 630 Trona, CA 93592 Searles Valley Historical Society


 * List of California Archives, Libraries, Publications, Historical &amp; Genealogical Societies

Web Sites

 * Inyo County, CA History, Records, Facts and Genealogy
 * California Genealogy Network Community on Google+
 * California Genealogy Network Group on Facebook
 * Inyo County CAGenWeb
 * Linkpendium
 * USGenWeb Archives
 * USGenWeb Archives backup site