Indexes/Transcriptions
Below are links to extractions or transcriptions of local records completed by Ventura County Genealogical Society volunteers. We make every effort to have accurate information, but inadvertent mistakes do happen. Please be patient with us. If you see something that needs to be corrected, please let us know.
If you would like to search the obituary pages from our old site, you may use Internet Archive’s Way Back Machine. Other pages from the previous Ventura County Genealogical Society Archives are also available through that link. Vital records lookups in additional records are also available.
Ventura County Pioneers
First meeting of the Ventura County Pioneers Society (19 Sep 1891)
Immigration/Naturalizations
Declaration of Intent
- Declarations of Intent Book 1 (1873-1879) and Book 3 (1880-1906)
- Declarations of Intent Book 7 (March 1907 through November 1911)
Certificates of Citizenship
- Index to Naturalization Records (1873-1903), Declarations of Intent, Books 2, 4 and 5
- Final Naturalization Petitions, 1907-1914
Baptisms
Baptisms (to 1900) Ventura Congregational Church
Census Records
1860 Census of San Buenaventura Township
- Transcription Santa Barbara County
1870 Census of Township No. 1
- Index (with page numbers) of Census for Santa Barbara County (includes San Buenaventura)
- Pages 1-32
- Pages 33-63
1900 Census of Simi Township
- Transcription Ventura County
School Records
Graduates Ventura High School 1890-1952
City Directories
1875 Ventura County L. L. Paulson Directory
1920 Ventura County Business Directory
Simi Directories
- 1912-1913 Inhabitants of Simi
Criminal Records
Contact the Ventura County Courts: https://www.ventura.courts.ca.gov/case-inquiry.html
Military Records
- Index of men from Ventura County who served in WWI (June 1919)
- Veterans of various wars buried in Nordoff Cemetery, Ojai
- Vietnam Casualties from Ventura County
Land Records
Spanish & Mexican Land Grants in Ventura County
– Camarillo and Conejo Precincts
Great Register of 1916
Death Records
Coroner’s Inquest Records, 1873-1941
- Guide to these coroner’s inquest records
- Coroner’s Inquests, 1873-1941
- Index of addtional names mentioned in coroner’s inquest files
Death Indexes
Other Deaths
- Victims of the Saint Francis Dam Disaster March 12, 1928
- Casualites of the Vietnam War from Ventura County
Obituaries
- Search our former archive obituary index listings.
