Family History Library

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Below is a list of the resources from the FHL's catalog for San Francisco and whether they are available on MICROFILM. There may also be links to other FHCs in the San Francisco Bay area who maintain permanent copies.

San Francisco Golden Gate
1900 Pacific Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94109-2336
Phone: 415-771-3655
Hours: by appt.

Archives and Libraries
Biography
Biography - Indexes
Business records and commerce
Cemeteries
Church directories
Church history
Church history - Periodicals
Church records
Church records - Bibliography
Colonization
Court records
Court records - Indexes
Directories
Emigration and immigration
Genealogy - Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Genealogy - Periodicals
Genealogy - Societies - Periodicals
Guardianship
History
History - Indexes
Jewish records
Land and property
Maps
Military records
Minorities
Minorities - Genealogy - Societies
Minorities - Newspapers
Minorities - Societies - Periodicals
Naturalization and citizenship
Newspapers
Obituaries
Occupations
Probate records
Social life and customs
Taxation
Vital records
Vital records - Bibliography
Voting registers
Voting registers - Indexes

• City directories at Sutro Library / Kot, Elizabeth Gorrell
• Inventory of the county archives of California, the city and county of San Francisco (San Francisco) / Historical Records Survey (California) MICROFILM

• Bridging the Pacific : San Francisco Chinatown and its people / Chinn, Thomas W
• The history of San Francisco / Byington, Lewis Francis MICROFILM
• History of the greater San Francisco Bay region / Kinnard, Lawrence

• History of the San Francisco Bay Region, by Bailey Millard, index of volumes one, two and three in two parts : part 1, index of the biographies, part 2, every name index of all volumes / Hasemeier, Wayne MICROFILM

• Andrews & Olds merchants protective system : account book for San Francisco and Oakland, California area, 1884-1892 MICROFILM

• Alphabetical interments in various cemeteries / Masonic Cemetery Association (San Francisco, California) MICROFILM
• Alphabetical list of removals to Lawndale Cemetery, 1940 / Laurel Hill Cemetery Association (San Francisco, California) MICROFILM
• Register of removals, 1865-1906 / Odd Fellows Cemetery Association (San Francisco, California) MICROFILM
• Inscriptions from City Cemetery Thirty-fourth Avenue and Clement Street (now Lincoln Park), San Francisco, California / Evelyn Briggs Baldwin MICROFILM
• An Alphabetical Listing of the California Mission Vital Records. MICROFILM / MICROFICHE

• A Directory of churches and religious organizations in San Francisco, California, 1941 / Historical Records Survey (California) MICROFILM
• Church records, 1868-1898  Olivet Presbyterian Church (San Francisco, California) MICROFILM

• Mission San Francisco de Asis, founded 1776 : popular name "Mission Dolores" from the nearby "Laguna de los Dolores" MICROFILM
• San Francisco or Mission Dolores / Engelhardt, Zephyrin, 1851-1934 MICROFILM
• A short history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the San Francisco Bay Area / Carney, Jeanne S

• San Francisco Stake Herald / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. San Francisco Stake (California)

• The Retrospect : a glance at thirty years of the history of Howard Street Methodist Episcopal Church of San Francisco / Howard Street Methodist Episcopal Church (San Francisco, California) MICROFILM

• A Guide to church vital statistics records in California, San Francisco and Alameda Counties, six denominations / Historical Records Survey (California) MICROFILM

• Basque ethnic connections and the expeditions of Juan Bautista de Anza to Alta California / Garate, Donald T MICROFILM

• Attachments, 1850, 1869-1872, Court actions seizing property to furnish security for debts. / California. District Court (San Francisco County) MICROFILM
• McInerney actions : court action to establish ownership of land-real estate, 1906-1984; with index to plaintiffs, 1906-1984 / California. Superior Court (San Francisco County) MICROFILM Research Tips

• San Francisco supreme court cases index, 1895-1910 / California. State Archives (Sacramento) MICROFILM

• Our Society blue book, miniature edition of the San Francisco blue book : containing names, addresses of the leading society people of San Francisco MICROFILM
• The San Francisco city directory [1850] MICROFILM
• San Francisco, San Francisco Co., California, city directory : contains a buyers' guide and a complete classified business directory / R. L. Polk and Company MICROFILM

• Admitted alien crew lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco, California, 1896-1921 United States. / Immigration and Naturalization Service MICROFILM
• Crew lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco, California, 1905-1921 United States.  / Immigration and Naturalization Service MICROFILM
• Customs passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco, California, 1903-1918 United States.  / Immigration and Naturalization Service MICROFILM
• From Italy to San Francisco : the immigrant experience Cinel, Dino
• Minutes of boards of special inquiry at the San Francisco immigration office, 1899-1909 United States.  / Immigration and Naturalization Service MICROFILM
• Passenger lists of vessels and alien manifests arriving at San Francisco, California, 1893-1953 United States.  / Immigration and Naturalization Service MICROFILM
• Passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco from insular possessions, 1907-1911 United States.  / Immigration and Naturalization Service MICROFILM
• Passenger lists of vessels arriving in San Francisco from Honolulu, 1902-1907 United States.  / Immigration and Naturalization Service MICROFILM
• Reconstructed passenger lists  / Smith, Clifford Neal
• Samuel Brannan and the golden fleece : a biography  / Scott, Reva (Reva Lucile Holdaway) , 1900-
• San Francisco ship passenger lists  / Rasmussen, Louis J. MICROFILM
• Ship Brooklyn Association files, 1846 : MS 16442  / Ship Brooklyn Association. Utah Chapter (Sandy, Utah) MICROFILM
• Ships articles and crew lists, 1854-1856, 1861-1862, 1883, 1886, 1892  / United States Custom house (San Francisco) MICROFILM
• CHINESE
• Chinese and the early settlement of San Francisco, Includes Departures and arrivals of ships between Hong Kong and California, 1848-1855. MICROFILM | FHCSC
• Chinese in San Francisco, Various materials on the history of the Chinese in San Francisco. MICROFILM
• Settlement and early land records of San Francisco, Notes on locations of property owned by Chinese immigrants and others. MICROFILM

• A useful guide to researching San Francisco ancestry / Beals, Kathleen C

• San Francisco historic record and genealogy bulletin, Monthly (1963-1964), quarterly (1964-1965)./ Rasmussen, Louis J MICROFILM

• Zichron note : the newsletter of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society / San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society, v. 1, no. 1 (1980)-current (Palo Alto, California)

• Record of orphans, half orphans, etc., on State aid, 1907-1910, City and County of San Francisco / San Francisco County (California). County Clerk MICROFILM

• The annals of San Francisco, containing a summary of the history of California, and a complete history of its great city : to which are added, biographical memoirs of some prominent citizens / Soule, Frank MICROFILM
• Anza's return from Alta California / Garate, Donald T MICROFILM
• The Bay of San Francisco, the metropolis of the Pacific Coast, and its suburban cities : a history MICROFILM
• Bridging the Pacific : San Francisco Chinatown and its people / Chinn, Thomas W
• Cable car carnival / Clegg, Charles
• The Farallon Islands, California : a paper read before the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the state of California, San Francisco, Calif., April 5, 1932 / Hoover, Mildred Brooke MICROFILM
• Golden Gate Swedes : the Bay Area and Sveadal / Beroza, Muriel Nelson
• The history of San Francisco / Byington, Lewis Francis MICROFILM
• History of the greater San Francisco Bay region / Kinnard, Lawrence
• History of the San Francisco Bay region / Millard, Bailey MICROFILM
• Scrapbook, Olden San Francisco ; a special study, Humanities 600-03, fall 1995 : Mooneysville (aka Mooneyville and other unflattering names.) / Heisterkamp, James L MICROFILM

• History of the San Francisco Bay Region, by Bailey Millard, index of volumes one, two and three in two parts : part 1, index of the biographies, part 2, every name index of all volumes / Hasemeier, Wayne MICROFILM

• Beth Israel Congregation collected marriage records MICROFILM

• Attachments, 1850, 1869-1872, Court actions seizing property to furnish security for debts. / California. District Court (San Francisco County) MICROFILM
• General index to deeds, 1850-1916; deeds, 1849-1900 / San Francisco County (California). County Recorder MICROFILM
• McInerney actions : court action to establish ownership of land-real estate, 1906- 1984; with index to plaintiffs, 1906-1984 / California. Superior Court (San Francisco County) MICROFILM
• New series patents, 1868 / San Francisco County (California). County Recorder MICROFILM
• Pre-statehood records, 1838-1851 / San Francisco County (California). County Recorder MICROFILM | FHCSC
• Real estate owned by the city and county of San Francisco and historical data relating to the same : with citations from decisions of the Superior, Supreme and federal courts, in relation to land titles vested in the municipality MICROFILM
• Settlement and early land records of San Francisco, Notes on locations of property owned by Chinese immigrants and others. MICROFILM

• 1920 census map for San Francisco, California MICROFILM
• County map of the state of California [1881] / Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868 MICROFILM
• Map of the city of San Francisco [1854] / Bridgens, R. P MICROFILM
• New and improved street map of the city of San Francisco, Cal. [1877] / Newbery, Frederick Thomas MICROFILM
• Railroad map of the city of San Francisco, California [197?] / Gensoul, A MICROFILM

• San Francisco Cadet Company, 2nd Artillery, N.G.C., San Francisco, California, applications to enlist, 1882-1883  / Wilson, Margaret A
• Veterans of the Mexican War, 2nd Brigade, Co. A., N.G.C., San Francisco, California, muster rolls, 1869-1872 / Wilson, Margaret A
• An index to compiled military service records of Union Army volunteers from California
• Old War Pension Index, filed 1815-1926

• Basque ethnic connections and the expeditions of Juan Bautista de Anza to Alta California / Garate, Donald T MICROFILM
• Bridging the Pacific : San Francisco Chinatown and its people / Chinn, Thomas W
• Chinese in San Francisco, Various materials on the history of the Chinese in San Francisco. MICROFILM
• Extracts from San Francisco newspapers, 1849-1870, Items especially concerning China, extracted from newspapers. MICROFILM
• Golden Gate Swedes : the Bay Area and Sveadal / Beroza, Muriel Nelson
• Harmony and individualism: changing Chinese psychosocial functioning in Taipei and San Francisco / Abbott, Kenneth A
• Settlement and early land records of San Francisco, Notes on locations of property owned by Chinese immigrants and others. MICROFILM

• San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society newsletter / San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society / Bi-monthly (1981-1990), quarterly (1990 on). (Palo Alto, California) MICROFILM
• Zichron note : the newsletter of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society / San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society, v. 1, no. 1 (1980)-current (Palo Alto, California)

• Extracts from San Francisco newspapers, 1849-1870, Items especially concerning China, extracted from newspapers. MICROFILM

• San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society newsletter / San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society / Bi-monthly (1981-1990), quarterly (1990 on). (Palo Alto, California) MICROFILM
• Zichron note : the newsletter of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society / San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society, v. 1, no. 1 (1980)-current (Palo Alto, California)
• Zichron note : the newsletter of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society / San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society,  Vol 10, no. 2 (1990)-current (Palo Alto, California) MICROFILM

• Restoration of naturalization record, judgement book : aliens, ca.1870-1942; and index / San Francisco County (California). County Clerk MICROFILM | FHCSC

• Extracts from San Francisco newspapers, 1849-1870, Items especially concerning China, extracted from newspapers. MICROFILM
• La Voce Del Popolo : 1868-1905 MICROFILM

• 1900 deaths, city and county of San Francisco, California : plus miscellaneous deaths and corrections / Fujii, Maggie MICROFILM
• Obituaries from the San Francisco Chronicle, 1975-1982 / San Francisco Chronicle (California) MICROFILM

• Andrews & Olds merchants protective system : account book for San Francisco and Oakland, California area, 1884-1892 MICROFILM

• Collateral inheritance tax receipt books, 1893-1921 / San Francisco County (California). Treasurer MICROFILM
• Index of all estates in probate in the city and county of San Francisco, Calif. from 1850 MICROFILM | FHCSC
• Probate court receipt books, 1871-1904 / California. Superior Court (San Francisco County) MICROFILM
• Wills, 1906-1922 / California. Superior Court (San Francisco County) MICROFILM

• Bridging the Pacific : San Francisco Chinatown and its people / Chinn, Thomas W
• Golden Gate Swedes : the Bay Area and Sveadal / Beroza, Muriel Nelson
• Harmony and individualism : changing Chinese psychosocial functioning in Taipei and San Francisco / Abbott, Kenneth A

• Collateral inheritance tax receipt books, 1893-1921 / San Francisco County (California). Treasurer MICROFILM

• 1900 births, city and county of San Francisco, California / Fujii, Maggie MICROFILM
• 1900 city and county of San Francisco, California marriage licenses issued / Fujii, Maggie MICROFILM
• Affidavits for marriage licenses, 1913-1915, San Francisco County and City : and index / San Francisco County (California). County Clerk MICROFILM
• Death records, 1865-1904 / San Francisco County (California). Department of Public Health MICROFILM | ONLINE | FHCSC
• Re-recorded marriages, 1860-1973; index to marriage certificates, 1904-1906 / San Francisco County (California). County Recorder MICROFILM

• A Guide to church vital statistics records in California, San Francisco and Alameda Counties, six denominations / Historical Records Survey (California) MICROFILM

• Great registers, 1866-1898; indexes, 1866, 1888-1904 / San Francisco County (California). County Clerk MICROFILM
• San Francisco, California, 1890 great register of voters / Steiner, Jane Billings

• San Francisco County index of naturalized voters, 1850-1898 MICROFILM | FHCSC