Riverside County, California Genealogy

United States California Riverside County

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

County Courthouse
County Clerk Recorder has birth, marriage, death and land records from 1893

Parent Counties
11 March 1893: Riverside County was created from San Bernardino and San Diego Counties. County seat: Riverside

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
Cities: Banning | Beaumont | Blythe | Calimesa | Canyon Lake | Cathedral City | Coachella | Corona | Desert Hot Springs | Eastvale | Hemet | Indian Wells | Indio | Jurupa Valley | La Quinta | Lake Elsinore | Menifee | Moreno Valley | Murrieta | Norco | Palm Desert | Palm Springs | Perris | Rancho Mirage | Riverside | San Jacinto | Temecula | Wildomar

Neighboring Counties

 * Imperial
 * La Paz County, Arizona
 * Orange
 * San Bernardino
 * San Diego

Cemeteries

 * Crestlawn Memorial Park, Riverside

BillionGraves


 * Mount View Cemetery, Beaumont
 * Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside
 * Sunny Slope Cemetery, Corona

Church History and Records
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Arlington
 * Blythe
 * Elsinore
 * Hemet
 * Indio
 * Palm Springs
 * Riverside

Germans
Archives, Libraries, and Museums Biographies Church Records Cemetery Records Court Records Histories Immigration/emigration/migration Maps Newspapers Societies

Maps

 * Maps of California (1850-1925)



Archives, Libraries and Museums
Corona Public Library 650 S. Main Street Corona, California 98992-3417 951-736-2386

County Courthouse
Riverside Hall of Justice 4100 Main Street, Riverside, Ca. 92501

Riverside Historic Courthouse

4050 Main Street, Riverside, Ca. 92501

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Anza California Family History Center
 * Blythe California Family History Center
 * Corona California Family History Center




 * Hemet Family History Library** 425 North Kirby Hemet, CA 92544 951-658-8104 Website: Hemet Family History Center


 * Jurupa California Family History Center (Riverside)
 * Lake Elsinore California Family History Center
 * Menifee California Family History Center (Sun City)
 * Moreno Valley California Family History Center
 * Murrieta California Family History Center
 * Palm Desert California Family History Center
 * Riverside California Family History Center

Societies
Corona Genealogical Society Meets in the Corona Public Library

Hemet-San Jacinto Genealogical Society, Inc P. O. Box 2516 Hemet, California 92546-2516 951-765-2372

Genealogical Society of Riverside

P. O. Box 2557 Riverside, CA 92516-2557

email: [mailto:gsor@gsor.org gsor@gsor.org]

Vital Records
See also How to order California Vital Records

Genealogy Societies, Archives and Libraries

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

Web Sites

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