Tag Archives: Property Research

563 Natoma: Where My Great Great Grandparents Lived

Today, I fooled around with my finding ancestral homes in San Francisco.  I haven’t had much like with zillow.com or Google Maps when it comes to San Francisco.  It seems that unlike Oakland either the old buildings were torn down since 1906 or the address numbers have changed making it difficult to determine if the …

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Land Transfer Tingley Street

I was looking through some newspaper clippings that I found online over the last few weeks.  Mary (Kelly) Meincke was my Great Great Grandmother’s sister.  She and her husband owned the Five Mile House at Silver Avenue and Mission Road in San Francisco at the turn of the century. I thought this entry was curious.  …

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This Just Might Be What My Kelly Line Needs

My Gr Gr Gr Grandparents, Martin and Catherine (Dolan) Kelly, had the nerve to die before 1906.  Beyond obituaries in San Francisco newspapers, I haven’t been able to locate a will or death certificate because they don’t exist. But, this document might change things.  I spent sometime going through the San Mateo County Index to …

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