What's New?
October 2024: A-files (San Francisco) Index: This index is of Alien Files (A-Files) held by the National Archives at San Francisco. The index includes over 410,000 records and 314,023 unique a-file numbers. According to the National Archives, these a-files are “for individuals who were born 1920 and prior, largely from the INS-Honolulu and INS-San Francisco District Offices.”
September 2024: Interested in Chinese Genealogy? Take a look at our page in the links to the right. The San Francisco Public Library now has free access to My China Roots (which looks impressive).
March 2024: Would you like to be a volunteer? But, don't want to commit to too much? How about indexing records online in front of your own computer? Take a look at the tutorial for our current indexing project: The Tutorial.
Major Databases and Indexes
- San Francisco Irish Database (525,000+ listings)
- San Francisco Mortuary Records (372,000 images)
- San Francisco Colma Cemetery Index (388,000 names)
- A-files (San Francisco) Index (314,000 numbers)
- Napa Mortuary Records (52,800 images)
- Early California Death Index, 1905-1939
- Alameda County Directories, 1867-1969
- San Francisco Directories, 1776-1982
City/Town ⇒ County Lookup

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