California Funeral Home Records online include funeral home or mortuary records, funeral programs, burial insurance records and more. These records contain information related to death and burial such as:

• name of the deceased

• death certificate

• death date and place

• burial date and place

• birth date and place

• copy of the obituary

• name of informant (often a relative)

• residence of deceased

• list of surviving relatives

• residences of relatives

• funeral program including speakers and pall bearers

• biographical information for the deceased

• burial insurance

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California Funeral Home Records online at the federal level

US – Mortuary Records – United States, Panama Canal Zone, Index to the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Registers, 1906-1991, index, at FS

California Funeral Home Records online at the state level

California – List of deaths copied from records in the California State Library, at FS

California – California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records, 1835-1931, at MH$

California – Mortuary records 1849-1900 (northern California), at FS

California – California, Mortuary and Cemetery Records, 1801-1932, at Anc$

California – California Chinese Mortuary Records, 1870-1933, at SFG

California Funeral Home Records online at the county level

Alameda County – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1897-1973, Smiley & Gallagher Funeral Directors, at FS

Butte County – Funeral Homes – Mortuary Memorial Cards, Ca. 1960-1980, at FS

Lassen County – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1956-1992, Lucero-Carlson Colonial Mortuary (Susanville, California), at FS

Las Animas County – Funeral Homes – Funeral registers, 1888-1934, at FS

Los Angeles County – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1958-1990, Pierce Brothers Mortuary (Los Angeles, California), at FS

Mendocino County – Church Records – The Reverend John Simpson Ross’s Register of Deaths : Being a Record of People Who Lived and Died on the North Coast of Mendocino County in the State of California, and for Whom He Conducted Funeral Services Between the Years 1873 and 1914, at FS

Mendocino County – Funeral Homes – Eversole Mortuary Death Records, at FS

Mendocino County – Funeral Homes – Eversole Mortuary Record Index : 1904-1918, Eversole Mortuary (Ukiah, California), at FS

Merced County – Funeral Homes – Merced County, California Funeral Book, 1877-1896, Merced County – Probate Records – Wills, 1887-1921, at FS

Napa County – Funeral Homes – Napa Mortuary Records, at SFG

Nevada County – Funeral Homes – 1940-1955 Mortuary Records Index, at NCGS

Nevada County – Funeral Homes – 1877-1928 Mortuary Records Index, at NCGS

San Diego County – Cemeteries – Mortuary Records (Johnson-Saum and Knobel) San Diego, California

San Francisco County – Funeral Homes – S.F. Dept of Public Health, Mortuary Record, November 1865-June 1904, at VS

San Francisco County – Funeral Homes – California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records, 1895-1985, at Anc$

San Francisco County – Funeral Homes – Carew & English 1906-1912 (Book 1 names and info), at SFG

San Francisco County – Funeral Homes – Carew & English 1906-1931 (Books 1-4 names), at SFG

San Jose County – Funeral Homes – Monahan Funeral Home Books Surname Index, at SCCHGS

San Jose County – Funeral Homes – Amos Williams Funeral Home Books Index, at SCCHGS

Santa Barbara County – Funeral Homes – Dudley Hoffman Mortuary Burials (1912-1925), at SBCGS

Solano County – Cemeteries – Index to Various Cemeteries ; Includes a Few Funeral Homes in Solano County, Earliest to Present (ca. 1996?), at FS

Solano County – Cemeteries – California, Solano County Genealogical Society, burial records : COLLECTION RECORD, at FS

Tulare County – Funeral Homes – California, Tulare County, Visalia Cemetery records : COLLECTION RECORD, 1875-1990, at FS

California Funeral Home Records online at the city level

Alameda – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1897-1973, Smiley & Gallagher Funeral Directors, at FS

Alamo – Cemeteries – Alamo Pioneer Cemetery Burials, at FS

Alhambra – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1942-1988, Pierce Brothers Alhambra Mortuary, at FS

Alhambra – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1985-1992, Pierce Brothers Hayden, Cunningham & O’Connor Alhambra Mortuary (Alhambra, California), at FS

Barstow – Cemeteries – Mountain View Cemetery Records, Barstow, San Bernardino County, California : Supplemented by Burial Records of the O’Donnell Funeral Home, at FS

Beverly Hills – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1933-1942, B. E. Dayton, Inc. Funeral Directors, at FS

Beverly Hills – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1942-1982, Pierce Brothers Beverly Hills Mortuary (Beverly Hills, California), at FS

Burlingame – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco, N. Gray and Company Funeral Records, 1850-1921, at FS

Burlingame – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco, N. Gray and Company Funeral Records, 1850-1921, at FS

Burlingame – Funeral Homes – California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records : COLLECTION RECORD, 1835-1979, at FS

Burlingame – Funeral Homes – California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records : COLLECTION RECORD, 1835-1979, at FS

Chico – Funeral Homes – Funeral Home Records, Ca. 1873-1997, Chico Cemetery Association, at FS

Chico – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1896-1992, Bidwell Chapel Funeral Home (Chico, California), at FS

Chico – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1905-1980; Index, 1905-1980, at FS

Chico – Funeral Homes – Glen Oaks Memorial Park interments, 1962-1991, at FS

Fortuna – Funeral Homes – Musser Mortuary of Fortuna, Ca, at FS

Fortuna – Funeral Homes – Musser Mortuary of Fortuna, Ca, at FS

Fresno – Funeral Homes – Day Books, 1916-1930, Lyle Funeral Parlor, at FS

Hollywood – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1916-1944, Pierce Brothers Hollywood Mortuary, at FS

Hollywood – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1925-1939, Pierce Brothers LeRoy Bagley Mortuary (Hollywood, California), at FS

Hollywood – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1929-1950, Wil A. Reynolds Mortuary, at FS

Hollywood – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1941-1946, Pierce Brothers Hollywood Mortuary, at FS

Hollywood – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1950-1983, Pierce Brothers Cunningham & O’Connor Mortuary (Hollywood, California), at FS

Hollywood – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1950-1994, Pierce Brothers Hollywood Mortuary, at FS

Hollywood – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1951-1991, Cunningham & O’Connor Mortuary, at FS

Livermore – Funeral Homes – Notes on the Callaghan Mortuary Records Transcriptions, at LAGS

Los Angeles – Funeral Homes – Death Records, 1950-1978, Pierce Brothers Cunningham & O’Connor Mortuary (Los Angeles, California), at FS

Los Angeles – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1898-1991, Pierce Bros. & Co. Funeral Directors (Los Angeles, California), at FS

Los Angeles – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1936-1984, Godeau & Martinoni Funeral Directors and Embalmers (Los Angeles, California), at FS

Los Angeles – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1940-1945, Pierce Brothers Crane and Eberlee Mortuary (Los Angeles, California), at FS

Los Angeles – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1958-1990, Pierce Brothers Mortuary (Los Angeles, California), at FS

Los Angeles – Funeral Homes – L.D.S. Funeral Records, 1954-1984, Pierce Bros. & Co. Funeral Directors (Los Angeles, California), at FS

Madera – Funeral Homes – Mortuary Records, 1912-1991; Index, 1912-1991, Jay Chapel (Madera, California), at FS

Monterey Park – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1940-1984, Pierce Brothers Monterey Park Mortuary (Monterey Park, California), at FS

Napa – Funeral Homes – California, Napa County, Napa, Funeral Home Records : Treadway & Wigger Funeral Home, 1900-2014, Treadway & Wigger Funeral Home (Napa, California), at FS

Napa – Funeral Homes – Funeral Home Record, 1902-1910, Wigger Funeral Home (Napa, California)

Napa – Funeral Homes – Napa Mortuary Records, 1902-2014, at SFG

Oakland – Funeral Homes – Index of Burial Records of Robinson Brothers Mortuary, Oakland, California, at FS

Oakland – Funeral Homes – California, Oakland, Mountain View Cemetery records : COLLECTION RECORD, 1857-1973, at FS

Oakland – Funeral Homes – Mortuary records of the city of Oakland, 1870-1901, at FS

Orland – Funeral Homes – Death Certificates, 1938-1973; Records of Funerals, 1974-1993, F. D. Sweet & Sons Funeral Directors (Orland, California), at FS

Oroville – Funeral Homes – Funeral Information Files, 1967-1992, Scheer Memorial Chapel, at FS

Paradise – Funeral Homes – Funeral Information File, Ca. 1973-1990, Rose Chapel Mortuary (Paradise, California), at FS

Paradise – Funeral Homes – Rose Chapel Funeral Information File, Ca. 1930-1984,Rose Chapel Mortuary (Paradise, California), at FS

Point Arena – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1909-1952, McCallum Funeral Home (Point Arena, California), at FS

Sacramento – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco and Sacramento, Clark & Booth Funeral Records, 1894-1906, Clark & Booth Funeral Home (San Francisco, California), at FS

Sacramento – Funeral Homes – California, Sacramento Cemetery Records : COLLECTION RECORD, 1900-1959, at FS

Sacramento – Funeral Homes – California, Sacramento County, Sacramento, Funeral Records, 1935-1966, at FS

Sacramento – Funeral Homes – California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records : COLLECTION RECORD, 1835-1979, at FS

Sacramento – Funeral Homes – Clark, Booth & Yardley Funeral Records, 1850-1907, Sacramento, California, at FS

Sacramento – Funeral Homes – Record of Funerals, 1909-1919, Harry A. Nauman & Son Funeral Directors (Sacramento, California), at FS

San Diego – Funeral Homes – Mortuary Records [1869-1888, 1907-1909], Johnson-Saum and Knobel Mortuary (San Diego, California), at FS

San Diego – Funeral Homes – Mortuary Records (Johnson-Saum and Knobel) San Diego, California, at FS

San Francisco – California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records, 1835-1979, index & images, at FS

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco and Sacramento, Clark & Booth Funeral Records, 1894-1906, Clark & Booth Funeral Home (San Francisco, California), at FS

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco and Stockton, J.S. Godeau Funeral Records, 1894-1931, J.S. Godeau Funeral Home (San Francisco, California), at FS

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco, Carew and English Funeral Home Records, 1941-1985, Researchity (San Bruno, California), at FS

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco, DL Kenny Funeral Home Records, 1906-1929, Researchity (San Bruno, California), at FS

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco, Gantner Bros. Funeral Records, 1906-1921, Gantner Bros. (San Francisco, California), at FS

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco, Gantner Felder Kenny Funeral Home Records, 1935-1939, Researchity (San Bruno, California), at FS

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco, Gantner Funeral Home Records, 1895-1906, Researchity (San Bruno, California), at FS

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco, Gantner, Maison, Domergue Funeral Home Records, 1916-1943, Researchity (San Bruno, California), at FS

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco, Godeau Funeral Home Records, Researchity (San Bruno, California), at FS

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco, H. F. Suhr & Co. Funeral Records, 1902-1921, H.F. Suhr & Co. (San Francisco, California), at FS

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco, Halsted & Co. Register of Deaths, 1883-1897, Halsted & Co. Undertakers (San Francisco, California), at FS

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco, Halsted Company Funeral Home Records, 1925-1981, at FS

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco, Halsted N. Gray-Carew & English Funeral Home Records, 1975-1979, Halsted N. Gray-Carew & English Funeral Home (San Francisco, California), at FS

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco, HF SUHR and Company Funeral Home Records, 1921-1980, Researchity (San Bruno, California), at FS

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco, Martin and Brown Funeral Home Records, 1911-1972, Researchity (San Bruno, California), at FS

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco, Miscellaneous Funeral Home Records, at FS

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco, N. Gray and Company Funeral Records, 1850-1921, at FS

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco, W.P. Petersen & Co. Funeral Records, 1906-1916, at FS

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco, Gantner Bros. Funeral Records, 1906-1921, Gantner Bros. (San Francisco, California), at FS

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records : COLLECTION RECORD, 1835-1979, at FS

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – N. Gray Mortuary Ledger, 1888, at SFG

San Francisco – Funeral Homes – San Francisco Mortuary Records, at SFG

Sebastopol – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1895-1921, O’Leary Funeral Home (Sebastopol, California), at FS

San Gabriel – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1928-1981, Pierce Brothers Simone Dubois Mortuary (San Gabriel, California), at FS

San Gabriel – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1958-1978, Pierce Brothers Fred A. Turner Mortuary (San Gabriel, California), at FS

San Gabriel – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1980-1988, Pierce Brothers San Gabriel Mortuary (San Gabriel, California), at FS

San Gabriel – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1982-1985, Dubois Carter Cram Mission Chapel (San Gabriel, California), at FS

San Mateo – Mortuaries – Mortuary Files of Valente, Marini, Perata & Co, at SMCGS

Santa Clara – Funeral Homes – Index and Funeral Home Records to the Amos O. Williams and Other Santa Clara County Funeral Books, 1902-1953 & 1957-1979, at FS

Santa Clara – Funeral Homes – Monahan Mortuary Funeral Records, 1914-1936, Santa Clara, California, Monahan Mortuary Funeral Home (Santa Clara, California), at FS

Sonoma – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1879-1920, Bates, Evans, and Fehrensen Mortuary, at FS

Stockton – Funeral Homes – California, City of San Francisco and Stockton, J.S. Godeau Funeral Records, 1894-1931, J.S. Godeau Funeral Home (San Francisco, California), at FS

Stockton – Funeral Homes – California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records : COLLECTION RECORD, 1835-1979, at FS

Susanville – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1956-1992, Lucero-Carlson Colonial Mortuary, at FS

Temple City – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1982-1991, Lee R. Hill Mortuary (Temple City, California), at FS

Torrance – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1950-1980, Halverson, Stone and Meyers Mortuary (Torrance, California), at FS

Ukiah – Funeral Homes – Funeral Cards 1915-1988 (Ukiah, California), at FS

Ukiah – Funeral Homes – Zimmerman Mortuary Records 1905-1941 (Ukiah, California), Zimmerman Mortuary (Ukiah, California), at FS

Walnut Creek – Funeral Homes – California, Contra Costa County, Walnut Creek, Oak Park Hills Chapel, Funeral Records, 1964-2018, at FS

West Hollywood – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1972-1981, Pierce Brothers Cunningham and O’Connor Funeral Directors(West Hollywood, California), at FS

West Hollywood – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1979-1982, Pierce Brothers Cunningham and O’Connor Funeral Directors(West Hollywood, California), at FS

West Hollywood – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1981-1983, Pierce Brothers Cunningham and O’Connor Funeral Directors(West Hollywood, California), at FS

Whittier – Funeral Homes – Index to Early Records (1898-1939) White-Emerson Mortuary : 13304 East Philadelphia, Whittier, California 90602, at FS

Willows – Funeral Homes – Funeral Records, 1921-1991,F. D. Sweet & Son, Funeral Directors, at FS