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GUIDELINES FOR REQUESTING LOOKUPS
Feel free to request a look-up from the generous volunteers listed
in this 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:
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Please DON'T ask the volunteer to do more than they have offered to
do.
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Limit your request to one or two items or names. Be considerate
of the volunteer's time.
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Put the words "SF LOOKUP" in the subject line of your
request to insure the message is not overlooked.
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In the first line of the message please put the name of the
book or type of record from which you are requesting the lookup.
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Be sure to thank the volunteer for their time!
Volunteers are wanted 
and appreciated!!
If you own or have access to records and books relating
to San Francisco and are willing to do look-ups, please let
us know. Any source relating to San Francisco history or families
is wanted! Look in the attic, the basement, in the corner of
your closet. Do you have:
Books on SF history or residents?
Old school yearbooks or class pictures with names?
An old family Bible with SF names and dates?
Old club membership rosters?
Back issues of old monthly neighborhood newsletters?
Diaries, letters, journals, scrapbooks?
Old phone books or directories?
? ? ? ? ?
Dust them off!
Please share them with us by offering to look up
a name for someone.
Just imagine the interesting records we would
all have "access" to if we each volunteered to do lookups in just one item
we may have laying around the house!
Tell us about the San
Francisco resource you'd like to share!
(We'll be happy to list any type of limits to what
you would be willing to do next to your name.
If you only want 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!
"The Annals of San Francisco", by Soule, Gihon, and Nisbet,
originally published by D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1855.
Volunteer: John Ireland irish1682@sbcglobal.net
Note: One or two person's names per request. Cannot make
photocopies.
"The Bay of San Francisco", Lewis Publishing Co., 1892
"Blind Boss and His City, Christopher Augustine Buckley and Nineteenth
Century San Francisco" by Wm. A. Bullough pub. 1979
"A Cook's Tour of San Francisco", by Doris Muscatine, 1963
(contains history of some old restaurants)
"The Earth Shook, The Sky Burned" by William Bronson, Chronicle
Books, San Francisco, 1959
Volunteer: Bernadette Hoegerle-Ferriter ferriter1@yahoo.com
Volunteer: Pamela Storm
Note: Can do a brief lookup on one name in index. Can't
photocopy or provide extensive information that would violate copyright
policy.
"Historic San Francisco--A Concise History and Guide", by
Rand Richards (Heritage House Publishers, San Francisco, 1997)
Volunteer: Pamela Storm
Note: Can do a brief lookup on one name in index. Can't
photocopy or provide extensive information that would violate copyright
policy.
"History of the San Francisco Bay Region" (three volume set),
Bailey Millard (American Historical Society, Inc., 1924).
Volunteer: Ruth Skewis ruth4527@surewest.net
"The History of San Francisco, Biographical, Vol. II" (only);
Lewis Francis Byington, Supervising Editor, Oscar Lewis, Associate Editor
(The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago-San Francisco, 1931).
Volunteer: John Ireland irish1682@sbcglobal.net
Note: Contains approximately 150+ biographcal sketches on prominent
San Franciscans of the time. Rich with family information (parents,
children), association memberships and accomplisments. Only a few
women noted in index. Also has sections on Academy of the Sacred
Heart, Gough School, San Francisco Playground Department, and Verna Jean
Kindergarten. One or two person's names per request. Cannot make photocopies.
"The Immortal San Franciscans (for whom the streets were named)"
by Eugene B. Block
"More San Francisco Memoirs, 1852-1899, The Ripening Years"
compiled by Malcolm E. Barker, Londonborn Publications, San Francisco,
1996.
Volunteer: Bernadette Hoegerle-Ferriter ferriter1@yahoo.com
Volunteer: Pamela Storm
Note: Can do a brief lookup on one name in index. Can't
photocopy or provide extensive information that would violate copyright
policy.
"1906 Remembered: Firsthand Accounts of the San Francisco Disaster",
published by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, 1981, Patricia
Turner, editor.
Volunteer: Susan Caulfield susanc@world.std.com
Note: This book contains 15 oral history accounts given by the
following people circa 1978-80, when they were all in their 70's-90's:
DEVECCHI,
NICKELSBERG, TAYLOR, O'DAY, GREENBERG, CALHAN, CONLON, WAGNER, MUGG, O'BRIEN,
HARMAN, GRANUCCI, GRAHAM, DICKSON and MURRAY.
Cannot make photocopies or quote large portions that would violate
copyright policy. Will give brief information to confirm that the
oral history interview is about the person you're seeking. Please
inquire only about names that are listed above. Thanks.
"Old San Francisco, the Biography of a City, From Early Days to the
Earthquake"
by Dorothy Muscatine pub. 1975
"Problems Women Solved, the Womens Board of the
PPIE"
(Volunteer's Note: This book has bios/photos of many
SF women involved with the Fair.)
Volunteer: Zoe Heimdal zoe@sanfranciscomemories.com
"San Francisco", edited by Jack McDowell, Lane Publishing
Co., Menlo Park, CA, October 1977
"The San Francisco Bay Area, A Metropolis in Perspective",
1959
Volunteer: Susan Scott wheelan@mindspring.com
Note: This publication is indexed by people and subject.
One name or subject at a time please. Photo copy available for a
small fee.
"San Francisco Confidential-Tales of Scandal and Excess From the
Town That's seen Everything", by Ray Mungo, Birch Lane Press, Carol
Publishing Group, New York, 1995
Volunteer: Pamela Storm
Note: Can do a brief lookup on one name in index. Can't
photocopy or provide extensive information that would violate copyright
policy.
"The San Francisco Earthquake", by Gordon Thomas and Max
Morgan Witts, Stein and Day Publishers, New York, 1971
Volunteer: Pamela Storm
Will look up family names to see if they are listed in the index.
"San Francisco's Golden Era", by Lucius Beebe & Charles
Clegg, 1960
"The San Francisco Irish 1848-1880" by R.H. Burchell
pub. 1980
"San Francisco Magic City" by Mrs Fremont Older (Cora Older)
pub. in 1961
"San Francisco Memoirs, 1835-1851, Eyewitness Accounts of the Birth
of a City" compiled by Malcolm E. Barker, Londonborn Publications,
San Francisco, 1994.
Volunteer: Pamela Storm
Note: Can do a brief lookup on one name in index. Can't
photocopy or provide extensive information that would violate copyright
policy.
"San Francisco, Mission to Metropolis" by Oscar Lewis,
pub. 1966.
"San Francisco Street Secrets--The Stories Behind San Francisco Street
Names", by David B. Eames, Gem Guides Book Co., Baldwin Park, CA,
1995
"San Francisco, The Way It was Then and Now" by Phyllis Zuaner,
Zanel Publications, Sonoma, 1994
Volunteer: Pamela Storm
Note: Can do a brief lookup for one name in index. Can't
photocopy or provide extensive information that would violate copyright
policy.
"San Francisco, You're History!", by J. Kingston Pierce,
Sasquatch Books, Seattle, WA, 1995.
Volunteer: Pamela Storm
Note: Can do a brief lookup on one name in index. Can't
photocopy or provide extensive information that would violate copyright
policy.
"San Francisco, Yerba Buena, From the Beginning to the Gold Rush,
1769 - 1849", compiled and edited by Peter Browning, Great West
Books, Lafayette, California, 1998.
Volunteer: Pamela Storm
Note: Can do a brief lookup on one name in index. Can't
photocopy or provide extensive information that would violate copyright
policy.
"Story of the Exposition" (1915 PPIE),
by Frank Morton Todd
Volunteer: Zoe Heimdal zoe@sanfranciscomemories.com
"Streets of San Francisco-The Origins of Street and Place Names",
by Louis K. Loewenstein, Wilderness Press, Berkeley, CA, 1996
Volunteer: Pamela Storm
Note: Can do a brief lookup on one street name in index.
Can't photocopy or provide extensive information that would violate copyright
policy.
"This is San Francisco", by Robert O'Brien (pub.1948)
Volunteer: Carolyn Feroben Sweetwater@Sierratel.com
The book is compiled of various stories regarding the neighborhoods
of San Francisco. It gives biographical sketches of some of the characters
and gives you a sense of the atmosphere of the various parts of the city.
I can look up family names to see if they are listed in the index.
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