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Church records rank among the most promising of genealogical records available. Indeed, for periods before the advent of civil registration of vital statistics (a very late development in many American states), church records rank as the best available sources for information on specific vital events: birth, marriage, and death. They are also among the most under-used major records in American genealogy. Part of the reason lies in the number of denominations-there are hundreds of them.
Mission San Diego de Alcala—San Diego
• Mission Luis Rey de Francia—Oceanside
• Mission San Juan Capistrano—San Juan Capistrano
• Mission San Gabriel Arcangel—San Gabriel
• Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana—San Fernando Valley
• Mission San Buenaventura—Ventura
• Mission Santa Barbara—Santa Barbara [records can be located at the Santa Barbara Heritage Library]
• Mission Santa Ines—in the town of Solvang
• Mission La Purisima Concepcion—Lompoc
• Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa—San Luis Obispo
• Mission San Miguel Arcangel—nine miles north of Paso Robles
• Mission San Antonio de Padua—three miles southwest of King City
• Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad—three miles south of Soledad
• Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo—south of Carmel
• Mission San Juan Bautista—San Juan Bautista
• Mission Santa Cruz—Santa Cruz (microfilm of the original Records of Baptism and Correspondence,
1791–1814, is available from Library Microfilms, Palo Alto, California)
• Mission Santa Clara de Asis—Santa Clara
• Mission San Jose de Guadalupe—Fremont
• Mission San Francisco de Asis—also known as Dolores, in San Francisco
• Mission San Rafael Arcangel—San Rafael
• Mission San Francisco Solano de Sonoma—Sonoma State Park
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Cemetery records and gravestone inscriptions are a rich source of information for family historians. Cemetery and other sources of information associated with death include:
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