New Online Vital Records for Stockton

FamilySearch continues to digitalize its microfilm collection. Here are some records that will interest California and San Joaquin County researchers.

California, County Birth and DeathRecords, 1849-1989

“Registers, records and certificates of county birth and death records acquired from county courthouses. This collection contains some delayed birth records, as well. Some city and towns records are also included. Records have not been acquired for Contra Costa, Imperial, Kern, Kings, Modoc, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Siskiyou, Solano, Tulare and Ventura counties. This collection is being published as images become available.”

For SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY you will find so far:

• Stockton Birth Certificates, 1907-1918, mid-June
• Stockton Death Certificates 1907-1949

These are images of the original certificates, not the retyped fancy forms they sell you today. And they are FREE, which is a price you can't beat.

MORE?

I certainly hope they add more San Joaquin County records to this online collection. If you check the FamilySearch catalog of microfilm under San Joaquin County Recorder as author, you will see more years listed for Stockton and records for Lodi, Manteca, Tracy, and the other parts of San Joaquin County.

GAPS

 

I also found gaps in this collection. I found my Aunt Maymie's death certificate in 1916, but not my grandfather's death certificate in 1917. I looked for George H Tinkham's death certificate for March 9, 1945, and it wasn't there, neither in the index nor the images. Mysteries abound. You take what you can get and say thank you.

A Sad Accident, But a Typical Death Certificate:

A Typical Birth Certificate: