• Various Birth, Marriage, Death and Obituary databases for California that include Santa Clara County.
• Marriages
• Marriages from 1865—FREE (USGenWeb)
• California Marriages, 1850-1877—FREE & $$$$ (ancestry.com)
• 1174 entries as of May 2007.

• Pioneer Familes of Santa Clara County—FREE(santaclararesearch.net)
• Included in our search index by permission of Carolyn Feroben.

County-wide
California State Dental Association Members, Second District, Santa Clara County, 1933-34—FREE

• Census of Pueblo San Jose, 1777—FREE
• Census of San Jose, 1790—FREE
• 1860 Santa Clara County Federal Census—FREE
• Alviso, Burnett, Fremont, Gilroy, Redwood City, San Jose, Santa Clara Township
• 1870 Santa Clara County Federal Census—FREE(USGenWeb)
• transcribed by Edward Black and proofed by Cynthia Biasca.
• names in this database are also searchable through our search engine (by permission of Edward A. Black, Sr., July 2005)
• Almaden, Alviso, Burnett, Fremont, Gilroy, Milpitas, Redwood City, San Jose, Santa Clara City
• 1930 Santa Clara County Every Name Index by the Santa Clara County Historical & Genealogical Society
• U.S. Federal Census Records (1860-1930)—FREE & $$$$

San Jose
First Unitarian Church Roster, San Jose, 1888—FREE
Trinity Church, San Jose, 1860 to 1903—pages 1-46, pages 47-92—FREE

County-wide
1957-1958 California Pioneers of Santa Clara County—FREE

Gilroy
1882 Keith Lodge (Freemasons)—FREE

Mayfield
1890 Charter Members of Native Sons of the Golden West, Mayfield Parlor—FREE
1894 Officers and Members of Native Sons of the Golden West, Mayfield Parlor—FREE
1903 I.O.O.F., Lodge No. 192 Officers—FREE

Mountain View
1882 Mountain View Lodge (Freemasons)—FREE

Palo Alto

San Jose
1882 San Jose Lodge (Freemasons)—FREE
1882 Friendship Lodge (Freemasons)—FREE
Societies, 1888—FREE

Santa Clara
1882 Santa Clara Lodge (Freemasons)—FREE
Native Sons of the Golden West, Charter Members of Santa Clara Parlor, 1902—FREE

County-wide

Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Telephone Directory, 1893—FREE
Prominent Citizens of Santa Clara County , 1895—FREE (Golden Nugget Library)
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co., 1898 (March) Telephone Directory(images only)—FREE (Golden Nugget Library)
Santa Clara County Telephone Directory -1933—FREE (Vitalsearch)

Gilroy
Gilroy 1870 Business Directory—FREE (santaclararesearch.net)

Los Altos
Los Altos Blue Book, 1924—FREE

Los Gatos
Los Gatos Telephone Directory, 1972—$$$$ (ancestry.com)

Mayfield
Mayfield Directory, 1904—FREE
Mayfield Directory, 1911—FREE

Palo Alto
Palo Alto City Directory, 1895-96—FREE
Palo Alto Social Directory, 1899—FREE (Golden Nugget Library)
Palo Alto Blue Book, 1921-22—FREE
Who's Who Among Palo Alto Women 1922—FREE
Palo Alto Blue Book, 1924—FREE
Palo Alto City Directory, 1926—FREE (distantcousin.com)

San Jose
San Jose, 1870—$$$$ (ancestry.com)
San Jose Social Register, 1899—FREE (Golden Nugget Library)
San Jose Blue Book Directory, 1924—FREE
San Jose Telephone Directory, 1972—$$$$ (ancestry.com)

• Louis Christian GRIPENSTROH—FREE
• Louis Arthur GRIPENSTROH—FREE

• Amos Williams Funeral Home Books Index—FREE(Santa Clara County Historical & Genealogical Society)
• Files available at Santa Clara Central Library

• Santa Clara City Government, Officers, 1851 - 1876—FREE

• Index to Federal Land Records for California (including Santa Clara County)—FREE
• Data provided by Larry M. Vredenburgh of the Bureau of Land Management, Dept. of the Interior;  formatted for The USGenWeb Archives by Joy Fisher

San Jose High School Graduates Serving in World War I, 1918—FREE
World War II Casualties (Army and Air Force)—FREE

• 1930 California Academy of Medicine Members—FREE
• Scrapbook Index—FREE (Santa Clara County Historical & Genealogical Society)
• files available at Santa Clara Central Library
• Notaries Public from California Blue Books, various years 1886-1909)—FREE (Golden Nugget Library)
• includes Santa Clara County Notaries

• San Jose Mercury News—$$$$ (genealogybank.com)
• 02 Jan 1886 to 31 Dec 1916
• San Jose Evening News—$$$$ (genealogybank.com)
• 01 Jan 1898 to 30 Dec 1922

• Mountain View Historic Obituaries—FREE (Mountain View Public Library)
• Newspaper Abstracts Project (for Santa Clara County)—FREE
• An all-volunteer project with a searchable collection of newspaper abstracts and extracts from pre-1930 newspapers all over the U.S.
• Almanac News Obituaries—FREE (by Obitcentral.com)
• from 1998 to current, covers Menlo Park, Atherton, Portola Valley and Woodside
• San Mateo Times & Pacifica Tribune—FREE (by Obituary Daily Times)
• Palo Alto Historical Association Obituary Index—FREE
• Obituaries from various newspapers such as the San Francisco Chronicle, Peninsula Times Tribune, Palo Alto Times, Stanford, etc., from the 1890s.

• Early Settler File Index—FREE (Santa Clara County Historical & Genealogical Society)
• files available at Santa Clara Central Library

Mayfield
1900 Precinct No. 1—FREE
1900 Precinct No. 2—FREE