I don’t know how I miss this one! Familysearch.org now has the San Francisco, California Passenger Lists 1893-1953 Collection. The collection is indexed and linked to the original ship manifests. Be aware that the index is not complete. I did a few surname searches and found that it covers roughly 1916-1953 at this time. The…
Category: California Genealogy
There is still more to learn about Thomas Augustine Jones
I thought I knew pretty much everything that there was to know about Thomas Augustine Jones given the documents that are available. So, color me surprised when I was going through San Francisco voting registers the other night and I found Thomas where he shouldn’t have been. I knew that Thomas Jones lived with his…
More Property Research: The Same House on Guerrero but Different Addresses
One of the best finds so far with the San Francisco Property Information Maps website is finding the houses that Patrick Dolan, my 4th great uncle, owned and lived in. Or, maybe I should say house…more on that later. Patrick Dolan lived at 809 Guerrero from at least 1880 to 1900. When he died in…
Huge Find: San Francisco Property Information Map
Some of my best genealogy research adventures start with accidentally stumbling upon a website. It happened to me yesterday as I was doing research on a family business. I saw a link for San Francisco property records and decided to click on it. What I got was the “San Francisco Property Information Map” website. From…
The 1900 Census got the Menaud’s all wrong
I missed this entry in the 1900 Census for several years. I was looking for Romain and Madeleine Menaud, with daughter. Mary Lacazette (from Madeleine’s first marriage). But, they were nowhere to be found. It took learning more about the family to root them out. The Menaud surname is rare in California in 1900. Even…