How to Submit Your Request
The Library will assist in searching its holdings of local Contra Costa County newspapers for obituaries of persons who lived or died in Contra Costa County.
Please complete the request form below:
or call in your request at: (925) 646-6434
Please provide the decedent's full name, date of death, place of death in Contra Costa County, and any other information that will be helpful to the research.
Information for deaths between 1940 and 1997 must be verified in the California Death Records.
You may submit one request per day.
Walk-in assistance is provided at the Periodicals Desk of the Pleasant Hill Library.
For death notices outside Contra Costa County, please refer to Obituaries.com and Obituaries 101.
Contra Costa Times Obituary Search
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The Contra Costa County Historical Society History Center has a historical collection of local obituaries prior to 1984.
Search their Obituary Index by name for the death date. For obituaries after 1984, contact them directly.
They also have indexed vital records - marriage, birth & death from the Contra Costa County Gazette and the Antioch Ledger. View the indexes in the Vital Records box
Vital Records
- Where to Write for Vital Records
Provides the address and contact information for obtaining birth, marriage and death records in all 50 states. - Contra Costa Vital Records from the Antioch Ledger
- Contra Costa Vital Records from the Contra Costa Gazette
Sources to Check
To Locate Death Dates & Notices Outside of Contra Costa County
- Cemetery Records Online
- Social Security Death Index from RootsWeb
- Online California Death Records & Indexes
- Obituaries.com Newspaper obituaries from the U.S. and Canada.
- Obituaries101.com
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