San Francisco Public Library - http://sfpl.org (415) 557-4400 - 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, 94102; With 29 branches; The 6th floor of the Main Library is dedicated to S F related genealogical collections. The Daniel E. Koshland San Francisco History Center (6th Floor) contains a research collection of books, newspapers and magazines, photographs, maps, posters, archives and manuscript collections, and ephemera, documenting all aspects of San Francisco life and history. The Center is also the archives for the City and County of San Francisco.
Sutro library (Genealogy and Family History) - http://www.library.ca.gov/ (415) 469-6100 - In Sacramento and San Francisco State University, 1630 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco 94132; extensive genealogy collection, Adolph Sutro's rare book and manuscript collection, Genealogical, family and local history catalogs
Bancroft Library - http://bancroft.berkeley.edu (510) 642-6481 - University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720,
Directories
San Francisco City Directories
Newspapers
Pre-Earthquake Newspaper Collections: Titles, Local Sources and Dates of Coverage. This is a 5 page Appendix in the book Raking the Ashes by Nancy Peterson
San Francisco Research hints
From census record that shows children listed in a SF orphanage to tracking them through Probate proceedings to finding Superior Court hearing records that committed the parent/s to the State Insane Asylum. Then tracking the kids from the orphanage returning to their relatives or other family/friends of family (possibly with different surnames), or by the next census year the kids are of age and on their own. Combine this data with information from city directories or newspaper articles, and so forth and so on.
Fires in the city really had an impact because most everything was build from wood so when there was a bad fire (1857 and 1858), as well as the 1906 earthquake and fire, folks just moved away because there was not enough housing during these early decades. We suggest reading the newspaper for the decade your researching to learn what's going on before you start.
Next example simple but hard to find-- how to provide an example for searching a family when only part of the family can be found. I found why someone moved to another county to work but came home to SF on weekends. Searching the next census year finds the Father/Husband missing. Is he dead, moved away, remarried? Trying to find out what happened was really hard and one of our members searched for 20 years to try find what happened to him and when he died. She asked me to help and I found him within a week by reconstructing all the records for her family using every SF source I knew about. I think I just got lucky on this one. Simple but hard.
San Francisco researchers are at a disadvantage by not having cemetery records, because they were destroyed and only some moved to another location and the records trashed. Who does that? Oh, San Francisco did. San Francisco has layers of obstacles to finding records. What helps is having the ability to construct work-around scenarios. I like to think of this plan as replacement idea/s to fill in the gaps. That's where SF-SIG can be of help, everybody telling their story, and getting advice from others.
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