Archival Center

Sacramental Records

The sacramental records for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles are not centralized, but held in the parish of origin. Get more information on obtaining sacramental records.

Those records at the Archival Center are for the following California Missions and churches only:

La Purisma Concepción

Baptisms 1788 - 1850
Marriages 1788 - 1851
Accounts 1806 - 1834
Cuentos (Typed Version of Account Book) 1806 - 1834
Padron 1779
Padron 1822
Padron 1824
Padron 1826
Padron 1836
Reports 1791 - 1834

Nuestra Señora de la Soledad

Baptisms 1791 - 1854
Marriages 1792 - 1851
Patentes 1806 - 1833

San Antonio

Baptisms 1771 - 1811
Baptisms 1811 - 1822
Confirmations 1778 - 1872
Marriages 1773 - 1872
Deaths 1771 - 1819
Deaths 1819 - 1872
Misc. Records 1811,1844,1862
Padrones 1833
Padrones 1840
Padrones 1841

Santa Barbara

Baptisms 1786 - 1858
Marriages 1787 - 1857
Deaths 1787 - 1841

San Buenaventura

Baptisms 1782 - 1808
Baptisms 1809 - 1873
Baptisms 1922 - 1952
Confirmations 1833- 1911
Marriages 1782 - 1893
Marriages 1893 - 1962
Deaths 1782 - 1823
Deaths 1824 Á 1912
Bancos 1867
Inventory to SBV 1790
Martyrologum
Padron 1825
Patentes 1806
La Ropa 1806 - 1815

San Carlos

Baptisms 1770 - 1820
Baptisms 1820 - 1855
Baptisms 1855 - 1872
Baptisms 1872 - 1896
Typed Versions of above 1770 - 1793
Typed Versions of above 1793 - 1828
Confirmations 1778 - 1896
Marriages 1772 - 1855
Marriages 1855 - 1908
Deaths 1770- 1829 (marked Baptisms)
Deaths 1829 - 1915
Index 1770 - 1840
Padron 1818 - 1842

Santa Cruz

Cuentos 1863 - 1878
Patentes 1806 - 1848

San Diego

Patentes 1806 - 1846

San Fernando

Baptisms 1797 - 1855
Marriages 1798 - 1843
Deaths 1798 - 1852
Patentes 1806

San Gabriel

Baptisms 1771 - 1795
Baptisms 1795 - 1819
Baptisms 1820 - 1855
Baptisms 1855 - 1868
Confirmations 1771 - 1851
Marriages 1774 - 1855
Deaths 1774 - 1804
Deaths 1804 - 1855
Official Reports 1773 - 1832
Padron 1824

Santa Ines

Baptisms 1804 - 1886
Confirmations 1834 - 1897
Marriages 1804 - 1904
Deaths 1805 - 1917
Padron 1804
Padron 1808
Padron 1820's
Padron 1826
Padron 1837
Ropa 1804
Visitors 1888 - 1919

San José

Accounts 1836 - 1839

San Juan Bautista

Baptisms 1797 - 1832
Baptisms 1832 - 1873
Marriages 1797 - 1890
Deaths 1851 - 1937
Accounts 1818 - 1826
Padron 1810 - 1826

San Luis Obispo

Baptisms 1772 - 1869
Confirmations 1778 - 1906
Marriages 1772 - 1902
Deaths 1772 - 1838
Padron 1833 - 1836
Patentes 1806 - 1840

San Miguel

Baptisms 1797 - 1899
Marriages 1879 - 1925
Deaths 1798 - 1909
Padron (Date Unknown)
Patentes 1801 - 1844

San Raphael

Baptisms 1817 - 1875
Baptisms 1875 - 1901
Confirmations 1851 - 1879
Marriages 1818 - 1875
Marriages 1875 - 1907
Deaths 1840 - 1854

Baja California

General

Archival Materials
Chant book
Decretos Obispado 1842 - 1898

Baja: All Saints

Marriages 1768 - 1862

Baja: Gobbieno

Determinations 1832 - 1872
Typed Transcript of above

Baja: San Francisco Borja

Marriages 1762 - 1819

Baja: Santa Gertrudis

Baptisms & Death Register

Baja: Santiago

Baptisms 1739 - 1768

The Plaza Church, Los Angeles

Baptisms 1826 - 1848
Baptisms 1848 - 1858
Baptisms 1858 - 1864
Baptisms 1865 - 1872
Baptisms 1872 - 1880
Baptisms 1880 - 1901
Baptisms 1901 - 1910
Baptisms 1911- 1915
Baptisms 1915 - 1917
Baptisms 1917 - 1918
Marriages 1840 - 1870
Marriages 1871 - 1910
Deaths 1826 - 1876
Deaths 1876 - 1903
Deaths 1903 - 1919