This weeks theme for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is the Old Homestead. I’ve only seen one of my ancestral homes in person. I really wanted to locate the house my grandmother, Anna (Jackson) Shellabarger grew up in Oakland, California. I used Google Maps and the Oakland Interactive Planning database to fulfill my mission. My…
Tag: Property Research
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…
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…
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. …