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The Clerk-Recorder’s Office maintains birth and death records beginning in 1873 and marriage records beginning in 1850.

To view a specific birth or death index book prior to 1920, appointments are encouraged.

Please contact the Santa Clara County Archives at (408) 755-7895 to set up an appointment.

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