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San Diego County, California
Death
Records & Resources

• California Genealogy and History Archives
  
  • San Diego County deaths - obituaries
  
  
• County of San Diego, Assessor / Recorder / County Clerk
  
  • Death certificates
  
  
• Early California Population Project
  
  • Early California Population Project
  
  
• Family History Library
  
  San Diego County, California death records at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah and at the San Diego Regional Family History Center:
  
  

  • Death Records, 1876 - 1905; index, 1851 - 1905
    4 microfilm rolls
    
    • Register of deaths, 1851 - 1905, index; microfilm no. 1,290,437
      
    • Death Records, Volumes A, C - E, 1876 - 1892; microfilm no. 1,290,437
    • Death Records, Volumes F - I, 1893 - 1896; microfilm no. 1,290,438
    • Death Records, Volumes J - M, 1897 - 1900; microfilm no. 1,290,439
    • Death Records, Volumes N - P, 1901 - 1905; microfilm no. 1,290,440

  
  
• Family Search
  
  • California, Death Index, 1905-1939
  
  
• Pre-1905 CA Death Index Project
  
  • California Death Index, San Diego County, pre-1905
  
  
• RootsWeb.com
  
  • California Death Index, 1940-1997
  
  
• San Diego Genealogical Society
  
  • 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 death records and resources:
  
  

  • Baja California Mission Records, 1751 - 1822
    Record group PR2.763; 1 roll microfilm
    Mission Santa Gertrudis baptisms; Mission San Francisco de San Borja deaths
    
    Mission San Diego de Alcala Records, 1771 - 1904
    Record group PR2.767; 1 roll microfilm
    Baptisms 1771 - 1846, 1849 - 1855; deaths 1775 - 1831; confirmations 1778 - 1904 [Box #65]
    
    Mission San Diego de Alcala Records, 1775 - 1880
    Record group PR2.768; 1 roll microfilm
    Deaths 1825 - 1831; 1849 - 1880; Marriages 1775 - 1880 [Box #67]
    
    San Diego Mission Records (marriages, burials, baptisms)
    Record group PR2.772; 1 roll microfilm
    
    Certificates of Death, 1873 - 1876
    Record group PR2.80
    Death certificates show the name, age, marital status, sex, occupation and birht place of the deceased; names of medical attendant, person making report, and the undertaker; location of buraial; location, date and cause of death; Arranged chronologically by date of death and indexed by name.
    
    Burial and Removal Permits, 1876 - 1945
    Record group PR2.866; 5 boxes
    
    Burial of Ex-Union Soldiers
    Record group PR2.120; 1 volume; arranged alphabetically
    
    
• Vital Search
  
  • California Death Index, 1905-2000