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San Diego County, California
Birth
Records & Resources

• County of San Diego, Assessor / Recorder / County Clerk
  
  • Birth certificates
  
  
• Early California Population Project
  
  • Early California Population Project
  
  
• Family History Library
  
  San Diego County, California birth records at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah and at the San Diego Regional Family History Center:
  
  

  • Birth Records, 1860, 1870 - 1905; index, 1870 - 1910
    San Diego County Recorder
    3 microfilm rolls
    
    • Register of births (index to Volumes A - M); microfilm no. 1,290,436, item 4
      
    • Birth Records, Volumes A - C; microfilm no. 1,290,434
    • Birth Records, Volumes D - G; microfilm no. 1,290,435
    • Birth Records, Volumes H -  J; microfilm no. 1,290,436, items 1-3
      
      
• San Diego Genealogical Society
  
  • Birth Records, San Diego County 1860 - 1889
  
  
  • Newspaper Records (Vital Statistics 1851 - Feb 1885)
    
  
  
  • San Diego Leaves & Saplings
  
  
• San Diego Historical Society
  The Research Library of the San Diego Historical Society holds the following birth records and resources:
  
  

  • Baja California Mission Records, 1751 - 1822
    Record group PRM2.763; 1 roll microfilm
    Mission Santa Gertrudis baptisms
    
    
  • Book of Baptisms, San Diego Mission, 1769 - 1799
    Record group PRM2.765; 1 roll microfilm
    
    
  • Baptism Records, San Diego Mission, 1769 - 1799
    Record group PRM2.766; 1 roll microfilm
    
    
  • Mission San Diego de Alcala Records, 1771 - 1904
    Record group PRM2.767; 1 roll microfilm
    Baptisms 1771 - 1846, 1849 - 1855; deaths 1775 - 1831; confirmations 1778 - 1904
    
    
  • San Diego Mission Records (marriages, burials, baptisms)
    Record group PRM2.772; 1 roll microfilm
    
    
  • Quarterly Returns of Marriages, Births, Divorces and Administrators, 1858 - 1860
    Record group PR2.86
    Returns of Birth show name, sex and race of newborn; date and location of birth; names, residence, race and nativity of parents; and date or recordation. Arranged chronologically
    
    
  • Returns of Birth, 1873 - 1876
    
    Record group PR2.79; 1 box
    Birth notices show the name, sex and race of the newborn; date and place of birth; name and residence of parents; names of medical attendant and person making the report. Arranged chronologically by date of birth and indexed by name.
    
    
  • Requests for Corrections to Birth, Marriage and Divorce Records, 1933 - 1938
    Record group PR2.877; 2 files
    

    
    
• Vital Search
  
  • California Birth Index, 1905-1995