Marin County Genealogy

Lookup Help

GUIDELINES FOR REQUESTING LOOKUPS

Feel free to request a look-up from the generous volunteers listed inthis section.

These wonderful helpers provide their time and effort for free.

However, they can reasonably expect that you reimburse them for costs

they incur for such things as photocopying or postage.

Please use the following guidelines when making your request:

Please DON'T ask the volunteer to do more than they have offered todo.
Limit your request to one or two items or names. Be considerateof the volunteer's time.
Put the words "Marin County LOOKUP" in the subject line of yourrequest to insure the message is not overlooked.
In the first line of the message please put the name of thebook or type of record from which you are requesting the lookup.
If you have a spam filter, either turn it offor add the volunteer's email address to accept your email!
Be sure to thank the volunteer for their time!
Please DON'T ask the volunteer for a lookup that would violate copyrightlaws.

Volunteers are wanted and appreciated!!

If you own or have access to records and books relatingto Marin County and are willing to do look-ups, please letus know. Any source relating to Marin County historyor families is wanted! Look in the attic, the basement, in thecorner of your closet. Do you have:

Books on Marin County history or residents?

Old school yearbooks or class pictures with names?

An old family Bible with Marin County names anddates?

Old club membership rosters?

Back issues of old monthly neighborhood newsletters?

Diaries, letters, journals, scrapbooks?

Old phone books or directories?

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Dust them off!

Please share them with us by offering to look up a namefor someone. Just imagine the interestingrecords we would all have "access" to if we each volunteered to do lookupsin just one item we may have laying around the house! Tell us about the Marin County resource you'd like to share!

(We will be happy to list any type of limits to whatyou would be willing to do next to your name. For example, if you onlywant to do lookups on the third Tuesday of every other month, that's fine!We wouldn't want to have any volunteer feel overburdened.)

Please join this growing list of wonderful volunteers! Thank you to every one of you!

Index of Marin County Lookup Offers

Cemeteries

Census

City and Telephone Directories

County History & Genealogy RelatedBooks

Naturalization

Newspaper Obituary

School Yearbooks

Vital Records Indices

Voter Records

For other possible help with lookups, consider "trading" lookup offerswith other researchers looking for help in YOUR geographic area or in books/recordsYOU own. If you are willing to help other genealogists, in exchange forthe help you receive, consider some of these wonderful resources:

Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness is another group of lookup volunteers who provide help all over the country. In return for this help, you are asked to do one lookup per month in yourown area for another researcher.
Books We Own isa list of resources owned or accessible by people willing to look up genealogicalinformation for others.
NORCAL Library has many lookup offers for numerous Northern Californiaresources, all offered by generous volunteers.

There are also specific mailing lists that have volunteers for thatspecific resource:

CA-CENSUS-LOOKUP-L for people who will look up census records for California.
CA-DEATH-INDEX-L for people who will lookup dates of death in the California Death Index(CADI) as well as obits and certificate transcriptions.

Before you take advantage of any volunteer resources, please be willingto return the favor. Remember that every one of these wonderfulvolunteers are taking time from their OWN research to do YOU a favor. Wewill all benefit if we're all willing to pass those favors along to somoneelse.

Books

Marin County Census Records

City Directories

1916 Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley, San Francisco & Counties Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Mateo & Palo Alto Exchange Telephone Directory

Volunteer: Nancy Pratt Melton

Naturalization

Obituaries

Schools

1932 Tamalpais High School, "The Pai"

Volunteer: Sally Staly

California Vital Records Indices

Voter Records

1890 Great Register of Voters

Volunteer: Colleen Norby

Lookup Volunteer Email Directory

Nancy Pratt Melton—npmelton@yahoo.com—please remember to state which resource(s) you want to be searched.