Family History Library

Below is a list of the resources from the FHL's catalog for Alameda County. There may also be links to other FHCs in the San Francisco Bay area who maintain permanent copies.

last updated: 11 November 2007

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48851 Green Valley Rd

Fremont, CA
Phone: 510-623-7496
 

3551 Decoto Rd

Fremont, CA
Phone: 510-713-1271
 

950 Mocho St

Livermore, CA
Phone: 925-443-2750
 

4766 Lincoln Avenue

Oakland, CA
Phone: 510-531-3905
 

6100 Paseo Santa Cruz

Pleasanton, CA
Phone: 925-846-0149

• Inventory of the county archives of California, Alameda County (Oakland)
• Alameda County, California genealogical research guide, 1993; East Bay Genealogical Society (Oakland, California)

Andrews & Olds merchants protective system : account book for San Francisco and Oakland, California area, 1884-1892

• Centerville Pioneer Cemetery (Centerville, Alameda, California) : formerly Alameda Presbyterian Cemetery, Fremont, Alameda County, California; compiled by John M. Horner Camp, Daughters of Utah Pioneers
• Cemeteries of Pleasanton and Dublin, California;  Ales, Beverly Schell
• Four cemeteries in Livermore, California  Oak Knoll Cemetery (Pioneer Cemetery) (Livermore, California)
• Mt. Eden Cemetery, Alameda County, California, 1860-1945 : 2440 Depot Road, Hayward, California;  Jensen, Edith Gunn
• St. Mary's Cemetery interment register, 1886-1899;  Stricklin, Jan (Janice)
• San Lorenzo Cemetery, Alameda County California, 1853-1983 : corner of Hesperian Blvd. and College Street, San Lorenzo (Unincorporated), Alameda County, California;  Jensen, Edith Gunn
• Combined surname index for four cemeteries in Livermore, California : Memory Gardens Cemetery, Oak Knoll Cemetery, Roselawn Cemetery, Saint Michael's Cemetery;  Livermore-Amador Genealogical Society (California)
• Record of interments, 1877-1954  Lone Tree Cemetery Association (Hayward, California)
• Vital records from cemeteries; Daughters of the American Revolution (California). Genealogical Record Committee
• Microreproduction of original typescript (17 v.) written in 1934-1962.Volumes include surname indexes., Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Sierra, Stanislaus, and Yolo counties -- v. 14. Napa, Solano, Contra Costa, San Joaquin, and Stanislaus counties -- v. 15. Calaveras, Contra Costa, Placer, San Joaquin, Solano, and Stanislaus counties -- v. 16. Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Humboldt, Lassen, Los Angeles, Marin, Merced, Mono, Napa, Plumas, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, Stanislaus, Tehama, and Tulare counties -- Amador, Butte, Glenn, Inyo, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Mateo, Solano, Tulare, Tuloumne, and Tehama counties -- v. (1967). Calaveras, Nevada, San Bernardino, Sutter, and Yuba counties.
• Contains abstracts of burials in various cemeteries throughout the counties of California; and some death notices from newspapers in a few counties.
• Contents: v. 1. Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Mariposa, Placer, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tuolumne, Yolo counties, and early death records (year ending June 1, 1850) -- v. 2. Pasadena; Kern, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Diego, Ventura counties, and miscellaneous cemeteries -- v. 3. Alameda, Contra Costa, Humboldt, Merced, Monterey, Placer, Sacramento, and Sutter counties -- v. 4. Alameda, El Dorado, Monterey, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Solano, and Sonoma counties -- v. 5. Laurel Hill Cemetery, San Francisco -- v. 6. Glenn, Nevada, Placer, and Sutter counties -- v. 7. Alameda, Butte, Colusa, Humboldt, Napa, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Tehama, Trinity, and Yuba counties -- v. 8. Sonoma County private burying grounds -- v. 9. Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Diego counties -- v. 10. Sacramento County record of deaths, 1849-1885 -- v. 11. Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Ventura counties, and San Gabriel Mission death records -- v. 12. Miscellaneous cemeteries; and vital statistics from the Sacramento Currier -- v. 12A. Alameda, El Dorado, Inyo, Mono, San Francisco, Shasta, Tehama, Tulare, & Yolo counties -- v. 13. Alameda, Colusa, Fresno, Inyo, Mono, Napa, Nevada, San Luis Obispo, Santa

Contra Costa County, California state census, 1852 : including 2/3 present day Alameda County  Coppage, A. Maxim (Arthur Maxim) , III, 1915-1998

City census, 1902  Oakland (California). City Council

• The history of Mission San Jose, California, 1797-1835 : with an epilogue covering the period from 1835 to 1855;  McCarthy, Francis Florence
• A short history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the San Francisco Bay Area;  Carney, Jeanne S
• Triumph : commemorating the opening of the East Bay Interstake Center on Temple Hill, Oakland (California), January, 1959;  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Hayward Stake (California)
• How firm a foundation : a centennial history of the First Methodist Church, San Leandro, California;  Stuart, Reginald R

• Church records, 1887-1981  First Unitarian Church (Oakland, California)
• Burial records, 1866-1959; index, 1857-1957  Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California)
• Church records, 1891-1935  St. Augustine's Episcopal Church (Oakland, California)
• Church records, 1880-1920  St. Paul's Lutheran Church (Oakland, California)
• Church records, 1867-1944  First Presbyterian Church (Oakland, California)
• Church records, 1860-1947  First Congregational Church (Oakland, California)
• Marriage records, 1917-1985  St. Clement's Episcopal Church (Berkeley, California)
• Church records, 1891-1905  Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Alma Branch (Altamount, California)
• Session records, 1893-1918  Brooklyn Presbyterian Church (Oakland, California)
• Session records, 1886-1906  North Temescal Presbyterian Church (Oakland, California)
• Beth Israel Congregation collected marriage records
• Session records, 1886-1906  North Temescal Presbyterian Church (Oakland, California)
• Church records, 1853-1949; First Methodist Episcopal Church (Alameda, California)
• Microfilm of records located at Twin Towers United Methodist Church, Alameda, California.Contents: item 1. List of pastors, 1853-1944; probationers, 1914-1948; baptized children, 1916-1930; members in full connection, 1895-1943; baptisms, 1906-1949; marriages, 1915-1945; funeral, 1915-1945 -- item 2. Historical record, 1853-1898; probationers, 1870-1887; class records, 1879; alphabetical record of members in full connection, 1853-1887; chronological record of official members, 1877-1879; baptisms, 1858-1887; marriages, 1874-1887 -- item 3. List of pastors 1853-1904; record of official members, ca. 1901; probationers, 1901- 1910; baptized children, 1903-1905; members in full connection, 1894- 1909; baptisms, 1904-1910; marriages, 1901-1910 -- item 4. List of probationers, 1910-1914; members in full connection, 1910-1914; baptisms, 1910-1914; marriages, 1919-1914; probationers, 1914-1917; members in full connection, 1914-1917; baptisms, 1914-1916; marriages 1914-1918; funerals, 1915.
• Annual genealogical report, Form E, 1938-1948;  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Claremont Ward (California)
• A Guide to church vital statistics records in California, San Francisco and Alameda Counties, six denominations;  Historical Records Survey (California)
• Church records, 1882-1919  Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Oakland Branch (Alameda, California)
• Record of members, 1927-1940; annual genealogical report, Form E, 1927- 1948  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Dimond Ward (California)
• Endowments for the dead, 1964-1970; baptisms for the dead, 1964-1970;  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Oakland Temple

• Husted's Oakland, Alameda & Berkeley directory.
• Oakland city directory
• Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda (California) city directories
• Oakland, California city directory : including Alameda, Berkeley, Emeryville and Piedmont; buyers' guide and a complete classified business directory  R. L. Polk and Company
• The San Francisco, Oakland and Alameda business directory, 1880

• Alameda County, California genealogical research guide, 1993;  East Bay Genealogical Society (Oakland, California)
• Funeral records, 1897-1973;  Smiley & Gallagher Funeral Directors (Alameda, California)

• Alameda community book; Paul G. Vigness, editor-in-chief ; A.H. Cawston, managing editor
• Alameda, California crossroads : an illustrated history;  Willard, Ruth Hendricks
• Alameda County : the Eden of the Pacific; the flower garden of California..  The Oakland Tribune
• Alameda, California crossroads : an illustrated history;  Willard, Ruth Hendricks
• The centennial year book of Alameda County, California : containing a summary of the discovery and settlement of California, a description of the Contra Costa under Spanish, Mexican and American rule; an account of the organization and settlement of Alameda County, with a yearly synopsis of important events, down to the centennial year of American Independence, together with the important events of the year 1876. Also a gazetteer of each township, useful local and general statistical information, appropriate for the present time, to which are added biographical sketches of prominent pioneers and public men;  Halley, William (William H.)
• Corridor country : an interpretive history of the Amador-Livermore Valley;  Stuart, Reginald R
• History of Alameda County, California; Merritt, Frank Clinton
• History of Alameda County, California : including its geology, topography, soil, and productions, together with a full and particular record of the Spanish grants; Munro-Fraser, J. P
• History of Alameda; Paul G. Vigness
• History of the greater San Francisco Bay region;  Kinnard, Lawrence
• History of the San Francisco Bay region;  Millard, Bailey
• Hometown Chinatown : the history of Oakland's China community;  Ma, L Eve Armentrout
• Index to Wood's History of Alameda County : history published in 1883 ; index compiled as a WPA project in 1936;  Livermore-Amador Genealogical Society (California)
• Oakland Public Library local history index, ca. 1840-1930;  Oakland Public Library (Oakland, California)
• Past and present of Alameda County, California;  Baker, Joseph Eugene
• The Rancho of Don Guillermo, volume one: the early years, 1843-1890 : history of San Lorenzo, Hayward, and Castro Valley, Alameda County, California;  Sandoval, John S., 1906-
• Greater Oakland, 1911, a volume dealing with the big metropolis on the shores of San Francisco Bay;  Blake, Evarts I
• Oakland : a history;  Cummings, G. A. (George Alfred) , b. 1880
• San Leandro : a history  Stuart, Reginald R
• Sixty-five years of history, First Presbyterian Church, Berkeley, California, 1878-1943  First Presbyterian Church (Berkeley, California)
• The Story of the city of Albany, California
• History of Washington Township (California)
• Who made Oakland?;  Crocker, Florence B
• The history of Mission San Jose, California, 1797-1835 : with an epilogue covering the period from 1835 to 1855;  McCarthy, Francis Florence

Beth Israel Congregation collected marriage records

• Births 1873-1901, deaths 1859-1903, mortuary record 1873-1891, land patents 1857-1892, delayed birth index 1875-1971, marriages 1853-1866;  Alameda County (California). Recorder
• Brands and marks, 1850-1917;  Contra Costa County (California). County Recorder
• Alameda County place names;  Mosier, Page

• Alameda and Contra Costa County, California land ownership map, 1894;  Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division
• Assessment rolls for the city of San Leandro, 1882-1900; Alameda County (California). Assessor
• Map of Oakland and vicinity;  Allan, T. J
• Map of the city of Oakland ... Alameda Co., California, 1915 ; precincts revised 1917 : 1920 E.D.'s;  Haviland, P. A
• Official and historical atlas map of Alameda County, California; Thompson and West (Oakland, California)

• Naturalization records, 1880-1931; and index, 1853-1985;  Alameda County (California). County Clerk

• Oakland newspaper index, 1869-1883;  Oakland Public Library (Oakland, California)

• Obituaries in the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California, 1978-1979;  Kelly, Jacqueline Strobel

• Probate files, 1880-1961;  California. Superior Court (Alameda County)
• Probate records of Alameda County, 1857-1920, and wills received by County Clerk, 1880-1970;  Alameda County (California). County Clerk

• 1849 Alcalde's record of Contra Costa County, California

• Births 1873-1901, deaths 1859-1903, mortuary record 1873-1891, land patents 1857-1892, delayed birth index 1875-1971, marriages 1853-1866;  Alameda County (California). Recorder
• Birth certificates, 1870-1904 for the city of Oakland  Alameda County (California). Recorder
• Alameda County (California). Marriage book I : 1866-1878
• Mortuary records of the city of Oakland, 1870-1901;  Alameda County (California). Recorder
• Death certificates, 1870-1904 for the city of Oakland;  Alameda County (California). Recorder

 
• Record of births, town of Berkeley, 1898-1905; index, 1898-1903  California. Department of Health and Human Resources (Berkeley, California)
• Record of deaths, town of Berkeley, 1886-1905; index, 1886-1904; California. Department of Health and Human Resources (Berkeley, California)

• Alameda County, California great register of 1890  East Bay Genealogical Society (Oakland, California)
• Great registers, 1867-1898  Alameda County (California). County Clerk
• Great registers, 1886, 1892-1894, 1900  Alameda County (California). County Clerk