Databases (Marin County)

Find more Marin County records at California/Bay Area

• Marin County Biographies
  
• Marin County, California Biographies
  
• Biographies
  
• L 1850 Census Short Biographies
  

• History of Marin County, California, J.P. Munro-Fraser, 1880 (Google)
  
• History of Marin County, California, J.P. Munro-Fraser, 1880 (Internet Archive)
  
• Hamilton Army Airfield, Disposal and Reuse, City of Novato, Marin County
  

• Attorneys and Bankers Directory, 1908-09

• Census Populations (1850-2000)
• LMarin County Census, 1850
• Marin County Census, Statistics, 1852
• LMarin County Census, 1860

• LMembers of Marin Lodge, No. 191, San Rafael, Marin County, 1882
• Marin County Fraternal Insurance Society: UPEC records (União Portuguesa do Estado da California / Portuguese Union of the State of California) $ (Marin County Genealogical Society)

Find vitals information in Vitals

• L1854 Marin County Assessment Roll, 1854
• Inventory of the county archives of California, Marin County (San Rafael), 1937 (starts at 524)
• Marin County Assessor-Recorder, Recorder's Index, 1973-present
• Index to Marin County Coroner’s Records, 1941 - 1967 (Marin County Genealogical Society)
• Coroner Records (transcriptions), 1927-1928, 1941-1962, 1964-1967 $ (Marin County Genealogical Society)

• Great registers (voting), 1866-1908 (FamilySearch)
• Great registers (voting), 1867-1868, 1873, 1875-1876, 1879-1888, 1886, 1888, 1890, 1892, 1894, 1896, 1898 (FamilySearch)
• Great Registers, Marin County, 1867-1898 $ (Ancestry.com)
• LGreat Register, Marin County, 1880
• California State Archives

• Hotel Rafael, Summer Guests, 1899

• Newspaper Notices
• Mexican Land Grants, Marin County

• MarinMap
  
• Map of Marin County's Original Ranchos
  
• Anne T. Kent California Room, Marin County Free Library
  
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (1887-1891)
  
• David Rumsey Map Collection
  
• Historic Maps of the Bay Area
  
• Old Maps of California
  

• Notaries Public from California Blue Books, 1886-1909
• LMarin Oral Histories
• LA biography of the Bailey Bliss & Snell families of Ukiah, Berkeley and Marin
• LMarin County - Our Towns

• Marin County Veterans of the Spanish American War $ (Marin County Genealogical Society)
• WWI Draft Registration List of Names from Marin County Tocsin (Marin County Genealogical Society)
• WWI Draft Registration Cards $ (Marin County Genealogical Society)
• LMarin County Veterans or those Killed in Action

• Index of Naturalized Citizens, Marin County, 1856-1934 $ (Marin County Genealogical Society)

• California Digital Newspaper Collection (as of Jan 2025)
  • Jolly Roger (San Anselmo, 1951-1964)
  • Marin County Tocsin (San Rafael, 1861-1918)
  • Marin Journal (San Rafael, 1861-1922)
  • Mill Valley Herald (Sausalito, 1990-2004)
  • Mill Valley Independent (Mill Valley, 1908-1910)
  • Mill Valley Record (Mill Valley, 1907-1991)
  • San Anselmo Herald (San Anselmo, 1912-1946)
  • San Rafael and Marin County Clarion (San Rafael, 1914)
  • Sausalito Currents (Sausalito, 2022)
  • Sausalito Marin Scope (Sausalito, 1971-2019)
  • Sausalito News (Sausalito, 1885-1966)
  • Tamalpais News (Mill Valley, 1919-2020)

• Marin County, Various Newspapers, various dates (GenealogyBank.com) $
• Marin County, Various Newspapers, various dates (NewspaperArchive.com) $
• Marin County, Various Newspapers, various dates (Newspapers.com) $

• San Quentin
  • Prison Records: 1850-1972. Prison registers, inmate photographs, inmate case files, and pardon files.
  • California. State Prison, San Quentin, Prison register, and descriptive list, 1851-1897
  • Register & Descriptive List of Convicts San Quentin, 1884-1886
  • Index of Prisoners, 1900
  • Index of Prisoners, 1930
  • LGrowing up at San Quentin

• St. Raphael's Church Marriages, San Rafael, 1884-1904
  • Index
  • Marriages
• St. Patrick's Church Confirmation, Larkspur, 1913
  
• St. Raphael's Church Confirmation, San Rafael, 1901
  

• LMarin County - Marin Railroading Timeline

Find more vitals on-line at California/Bay Area Vitals

The California State Archives has offline records. (Probate, 1850–1924; County, Judicial and Superior Court, 1850–1939; Bonds, Letters and Wills, 1853–1914; Marriage, 1873–1936 (1873–1919); Great Register, 1866–1908; Estate Records¹, Miscellaneous, 1870–1950.)

• Marin County Government
  • Marin County Assessor-Recorder-County Clerk : Births, 1857-current
  • Marin County Assessor-Recorder-County Clerk : Deaths, 1857-current
  • Marin County Assessor-Recorder-County Clerk : Marriages, 1857-current
  • Marin County Superior Court : Wills, Probate (from 1850), Divorce

• Marin County Births, 1873-1905; Delayed Birth Certificates, 1943-1980 $ (The Vitalsearch Company)

• FamilySearch
  • Birth records, 1868-1921
  • Birth records, 1868-1905
  • Delayed birth records
  • Marriage Licenses, 1856-1905
  • Marriage Licenses, 1873-1933
  • Marriage licenses, 1881-1902; marriage license index, 1873-1934
  • Death Records, 1873-1905
  • Bonds and letters of administrators and executors, 1866-1893
  • Probate Court minutes, 1853-1879
  • Probate Judgement book, 1850-1853
  • Probate case files, 1850-1924
  • Probate Court records, 1853-1919
  • Probate proceedings, 1880-1905
  • Probate register, v. A-C, 1851-1879
  • Record of wills, 1853-1908

• Marin County Genealogical Society
  • Index to Marriages, St. Raphael's Church, San Rafael, 1884-1904
  • Marin County Wills Index, 1856-1908
  • Marin County Wills, 1856-1908, Books A-D (transcribed) $ (Marin County Genealogical Society)
  • Marin County Probate Index to Records, 1850 -1940

• Marin County, Pre-1905 California Death Index Project
  
• Marin County, Genealogy Trails, various databases
  

• Newspapers
  • Marin Independent Journal vital notices
    • Marin County, Marin Independent Journal, Birth Notices
      
    • Marin County, Marin Independent Journal, Marriage Notices
      
    • Marin County, Marin Independent Journal, Death Notices and Obituaries
      
    • Marin County, Marin Independent Journal, Wills
  • LMarin County Aids Victims, 1994
  • Indexes, 1982, 1999, 2006
  • Marin County Divorces various newspaper notices, 1866-2010 $ (Marin County Genealogical Society)
  • Obituaries from the Marin Independent Journal, 1982-2010 $ (Marin County Genealogical Society) (Index)
  • Obituaries from Point Reyes Light, Coastal Post, and West Marin Citizen, 2001 - 2010 $ (Marin County Genealogical Society) (Index)

¹ “The first 3000 or so estate records for Marin County are housed in the California State Archives in Sacramento. You can get photocopies from them. Later records are in the Marin Civic Center on the first floor. “—Cathy Gowdy.