California, Oakland, Mountain View Cemetery Records - FamilySearch Historical Records (2024)

What is in This Collection?[edit | edit source]

This collection contains cemetery records for the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California for years 1857-1973. This collection includes indexes to burials, internment, and funeral home records.

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What Can These Records Tell Me?[edit | edit source]

The following information may be found in these records:

• Name of deceased
• Race
• Sex
• Age
• Birthplace
• Death date
• Place of death
• Cause of death
• Name of undertaker

Collection Content[edit | edit source]

Sample Images[edit | edit source]

• 1954 Cemetery record

How Do I Search This Collection?[edit | edit source]

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• The name of your ancestor
• The approximate date of any event
• Place of death

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I Found the Person I Was Looking For, What Now?[edit | edit source]

• Add any new information to your records
• Use the information found in the record to locate the death record
• Use the age or estimated birth date to determine an approximate birth date to find vital records such as birth, baptism, and marriage
• Use the information found in the record to find land, probate and immigration records
• Use the information found in the record to find additional family members in censuses

I Can’t Find the Person I’m Looking For, What Now?[edit | edit source]

• If your ancestor does not have a common name, collect entries for every person who has the same surname. This list can help you find possible relatives
• If you cannot locate your ancestor in the locality in which you believe they lived, then try searching records of a nearby town or county
• Try different spellings of your ancestor’s name
• Remember that sometimes individuals went by nicknames or alternated between using first and middle names

Research Helps[edit | edit source]

The following articles will help you research your family in the state of California.

• Cemeteries
• Sexton Records
• California Guided Research
• California Research Tips and Strategies
• Step-by-Step Research: 1850-1905 | 1905-Present

Other FamilySearch Collections[edit | edit source]

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FamilySearch Catalog[edit | edit source]

• Mountain View Cemetery. Burial records, 1866-1959; index, 1857-1957
• Alameda County. Births 1873-1901, deaths 1859-1903, mortuary record 1873-1891, land patents 1857-1892, delayed birth index 1875-1971, marriages 1853-1866
• Oakland City Council. City census, 1902
• Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, Your Guide to Cemetery Research. Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 2002 FS Library 973 V37c

FamilySearch Historical Records[edit | edit source]

• California Cemetery Transcriptions, 1850-1960
• California Death Index, 1905-1939
• California Death Index, 1940-1997
• Find a Grave Index
• BillionGraves Index

FamilySearch Digital Library[edit | edit source]

• Jan Stricklin, transcribed. St. Mary's Cemetery interment register, 1863-1910. 4 volumes.

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