SFgenealogy

 

|San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf, 1956

What's New?

September 2025: Sacramento Police Department Historical Mug Books: 80% indexed. Database will be updated when completed.

July 2025: Once again, we made the list of top websites for Familytree Magazine's California Research Guide (July/August 2025). We were 1 of 6 websites listed.

May 2025: Mortality Register for Sacramento City, 1850-1852: This is an important list of the deaths of 1,238 individuals who were involved in the early years of the Gold Rush around Sacramento, California.

April 2025: San Francisco Historic Cemeteries: A large number of new resources including academic studies, newspaper collections, images, and maps have appeared on the internet since we first published this section in 1999. Thus, we have updated our information and created a new map.

January 2025: New links to city, railroad, and telephone directories at the Internet Archive (for various counties and Chinese Genealogy). Includes links for San Francisco Blue Books (aka Social directories) from 1888 to 1931.

Major Databases and Indexes

City/Town ⇒ County Lookup

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San Francisco Bay Area Map