San Francisco Genealogy

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San Francisco Query Boards
San Francisco/California Ethnic Links
Miscellaneous San Francisco Links
California Links
Fraternal/Social Organizations Links
USGenWeb Links

San Francisco Query Boards

SFgenealogy.com
CousinConnect
GenForum
RootsWeb/Ancestry
"Most Wanted 49ers"—read and/or post queries regarding ancestors "lost" in California during the Gold Rush era, 1840's-1880

San Francisco/California Ethnic Links

Miscellaneous San Francisco Links

California Links

NORCAL Mailing List—offer assistance to, and receive assistance from, other members regarding sources pertaining to the northern California area. To subscribe, turn off any signature files and write the word subscribe (nothing else) on the FIRST LINE of the message (not the subject line).
NORCAL Genealogy Index—a wonderful project which lists state-wide resources and indexes to Northern California source material. The listings give very helpful and detailed directions on how to use a particular resource or index, and includes a list of locations where it can be found.
Golden Nugget Library—excellent collection of free databases for California, Sacramento, and San Francisco.
California Genealogy & History Archives—a large collection of free databases for locations in California.
California Research Outline—great outline for resources to search in California.
California Saving Graves—group dedicated to saving and preserving historic cemeteries.
California Mailing Lists at RootsWeb
"California as I Saw It"—First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900. This is a searchable database consisting of full texts and illustrations of 190 works that document the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts (brought to you by the Library of Congress).
California Black Sheep Ancestors—various databases of California prisons, convicts and executions.
California Place Names
California State Archive —list of Holdings of Interest to Genealogists (i.e. California National Guard Records, Folsom and San Quentin Prison Registers 1850 - 1945).

Fraternal/Social Organizations Links

Historic newspaper articles about the Polish community in California

USGenWeb Links

USGenWeb Project—project information, and links to all other States' main pages.
IAGenWeb Project—project information and links for Iowa.
USGenWeb/CAGenWeb - San Francisco County
USGenWeb Archives—records and text files of genealogical data, generously contributed by many volunteers, freely available online to all researchers.
USGenWeb Census Project —Transcriptions of Federal Census records, being transcribed by volunteers, filed in the USGenWeb Archives, freely available online to all researchers.
USGenWeb Tombstone Project —Records of tombstone inscriptions from all over the country, being transcribed by volunteers, filed in the USGenWeb Archives, freely available online to all researchers.
WorldGenWeb Project —for links to pages of other countries.