SFBAJGS - Local Resources

Resources:

National Archives-Pacific Sierra Region

 Holdings include:

• Federal Census and Soundex records - all states through 1930
• Revolutionary War Rolls - 1775-1783
• Revolutionary War Pensions - 1800-1900
• Civil War - Schedule of Union veterans and Union widows - 1890
• Civil War - Index to Pensions - 1861-1934
• Mexican War - Index to Pensions - 1887-1926
• Indian Wars - Index to Pensions - 1892-1926
• State Census: CA-1852, CO-1885, FL-1885, MN-1857, NE-1885, NM-1885
• Passenger Arrival records for San Francisco
• Passenger Arrival records for Angel Island/San Francisco
• Passenger Arrival records for Galveston, TX
• Passenger Arrival records for Philadelphia, PA
• Passenger Arrival records for New York
• 1820-1846 Index - very few
• 1820-1873 Manifests - some
• 1874-1897 Manifests - all
• 1897-1957 Manifests - very few 1897-1898
• 1897-1902 Index - few (20 of 115 rolls)
• 1902-1943 Index - very few (16 of 744 rolls)
• Canadian Border Crossings Index (St. Albans, VT records) 1895-1952
• Russian Consular record for San Francisco

LDS Family History Centers in the 9-County San Francisco Bay Area

The Family History Library Catalog™ (FHLC), the catalog of the holdings of the Library in Salt Lake City, can be searched online at www.familysearch.org. Guidance on their holdings relating to California can be found in the FHL California Genealogy.

Note: Sunday hours are generally reserved for Mormon researchers. Call the individual Center to verify hours and policies.

(Per the FHL web site: The addresses below are not mailing addresses. Because of limited staff, Family History Centers cannot respond to mail inquiries.)

Alameda County

Fremont, California
48950 Green Valley Road
Fremont, California
Phone: (510) 623-7496
Hours: W-Th 11am-3pm, 6:30pm-9:30pm; Sat 10am-2pm; Sun 1:30pm-4pm.
Closed: three-day holiday weekends; General Conference weekends; week of Thanksgiving and the last two weeks of December.

Hayward, California
3551 Decoto Road
Fremont, California
Phone: (510) 713-1271
Hours: T, W, Th 9am-12pm, 7pm-9pm; Sat 9am-12pm

Hayward, California 1^st Ward
2000 Highland Boulevard
Hayward, California
Phone: (510) 537-7144
Hours: T-Th 10am-12pm, 1-3pm; 7-9pm.

Livermore, California
950 Mocho Street
Livermore, California
Phone: (925) 447-2084
Hours: Mon 9am - 3pm; T, W, 6 pm - 9 pm; Sat 1- 4 pm, Sun 9am - 4 pm

Oakland, California
4766 Lincoln Avenue
Oakland, California
Phone: (510) 531-3905
Hours: T-Th 9:30am-9pm; F 9:30am-5pm; Sat 10am-5pm.
Closed: the last two weeks of December.
Items of note: Has catalog for San Francisco Bay Area Family History Centers, schedule of free classes, and current hours.
Oakland FHC Website

Pleasanton, California
6100 Paseo Santa Cruz
Pleasanton, California
Phone: (925) 846-0149
Hours: T,W: 9am-1pm & 7pm-9pm; Thur, Sat: 9am-1pm.

Contra Costa County

Concord, California
3700 Concord Boulevard
Concord, California
Phone: (925) 686-1766
Hours: T-W 9am-9pm; Th 9am-5pm; Sat 9am-1pm; Sun by appointment.

Danville, California
2949 Stone Valley Road
Danville, California
Phone: (925) 552-5920
Hours: M,W 10am-4pm; T 7-9pm; Th 10am-4pm.

Marin County

San Rafael, California
220 North San Pedro Road
San Rafael, CA
Phone: (415) 479-2200
Hours: T,Th: 5-9pm; W,F: 9am-1pm; Sun, by appointment. Call 415-479-2793 and leave message to make an appointment.

Napa County

San Francisco County

San Mateo County

San Bruno, California
975 Sneath Lane
San Bruno, California
Phone: (650) 873-1928
Hours: W 9am-4pm, 6:30pm-9pm; Th, Sat 9am-4pm.
Items of Note: Complete NYC 1890 Police Census, Complete 1865 Massachusetts State Census

San Francisco, California West
730 Sharp Park Road
Pacifica, California
Phone: (650) 355-4986
Hours: T-W 9:00am-4:00pm, 6:30pm-9:00pm; Th 6:30pm-9:00pm.
Closed: Thanksgiving Day; Dec. 23 - Jan 5, 2002.

Santa Clara County

Milpitas, California
3110 Cropley Avenue
San Jose, California
Phone: (408) 259-5501
Hours: T, Th 7pm-9pm; Sun 1:30pm-3:30pm
Closed: Thanksgiving; 2 weeks over Christmas & New Years.

San Jose, California
4977 San Felipe Road
San Jose, California
Phone: (408) 274-8592
Hours: T,W,Th 9am-9pm; Sat 9am-3pm

Santa Clara, California
875 Quince Avenue
Santa Clara, California
Phone: (408) 241-1449
Hours: T-F 9am-4pm, 7pm-9:30pm; Sat 12pm-4pm
Item of note: Complete NYC Department of Health Birth, Marriage, and Death indexes

Solano County

Vacaville, California
480 Wrentham Drive
Vacaville, California
Phone: (707) 451-8394
Hours: T 10am-3pm & 6pm-9pm; W 10am-3pm & 7pm-9pm; Th 7pm-9pm; F & Sat by appointment
Closed: 1 week for Thanksgiving, 2 weeks for Christmas & 1 week for Easter.

Sonoma County

Santa Rosa, California
1725 Peterson Lane
Santa Rosa, California
Phone: (707) 525-0399
Hours: M 1pm-5pm; T-W 1pm-9pm; Th 9am-5pm; Sat 9am-1pm

Sea Ranch, California
45500 Pacific Woods Road
Gualala, California
Phone: (707) 884-3255
Hours: M, W 10am-12pm; also by appointment

Sonoma, California
16280 La Grama
Agua Caliente, California
Phone: (707) 996-2369
Hours: T 9am-5pm, 7-9pm; Th 9am-5pm; Sun by appointment

Sutro Library

1630 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, 94132
The library is now located on the 5th Floor of the newly renovated J. Paul Leonard-Sutro Library
on the San Francisco State University campus.

Please visit http://www.sfsu.edu/~sfsumap/ for a detailed map.

(415) 469-6100
www.library.ca.gov/collections/index.html#sutro

Hours: Mon.-Fri. 10am-5pm excluding state holidays

Holdings include:

• Large collection of city directories and telephone books from many states on microfiche
• Large collection of city, county and state histories
• Large collection of family histories
• Telephone Fiche
• Social Security Death Index
• Federal Census and Soundex records - all states through 1930
• Passenger Arrival records for New York - 1820-1897
• Passenger Arrival records Index for New York - 1897-1902
• Books: "Germans to America," "Migration from the Russian Empire"
• Naturalization Indexes: Brooklyn, NY; Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco, CA

Tauber Holocaust Library

Formerly known as the Holocaust Center of Northern California, the library is located at
Mailing address: 2150 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
Street address: 2245 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
(415) 449-3717; Fax: (415) 449-3720
Tauber Holocaust Library
Call for hours.

Holdings include:

• Over 600 Yizkor Books
• Holocaust related materials

Jewish Community Library

Holdings include:

• Nearly 30,000 volumes on Jewish history, customs,genealogy, literature, communities, religious works
• Books on tape, CDs, DVDs, journals, musical scores, newspapers, videos
• Holdings of the Jewish Community High School of the Bay

Society of California Pioneers Library and Archives

300 Fourth Street (at Folsom) , San Francisco, CA 94107-1272
(415) 957-1849
Society of California Pioneers
Hours: Tuesdays-Fridays 9 am - 12 pm with additional hours by appointment.
Admission: $3 general; $1.50 seniors, AAA and students

Holdings include: The Alice Phelan Sullivan Library of the Society of California Pioneers contains over 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, journals, newspapers, and autobiographical materials related to the early history of California. The Society also has eight volumes of reminiscences of its founding members written at the turn of the century. Scholars may consult some 1,000 manuscript files - which include an extensive collection of overland and ship diaries, the Sherman Music Collection, playbills, scrapbooks and ledgers as well as printed ephemera and pamphlets. The library also houses collections of over 250 newspaper titles, nearly 300 periodical titles and over 3,000 maps. Archival collections include the Cooper-Molera papers on early California, the Patterson Mining Collections, Angel Island, and materials relating to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915.

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Tel: 510.643.2526

https://magnes.berkeley.edu/

Holdings include: Various genealogical and historical resources, focus on Jews in the American West. Periodicals, more. Changing and permanent exhibits. Check website for information. 

Stanford University

• Green Library - (650) 725-1064
Holdings include: Yizkor books, general references.
 
• Hoover Institution - (650) 723-1754, www.hoover.org/hila
Holdings include: Eastern European and Russian/Soviet; collections including manuscripts and periodicals; more.

University of California at Berkeley

The Main/Doe and Moffitt Undergraduate libraries require ID to enter.
A person can simply walk in and peruse the shelves in other campus libraries but must have a library card to borrow materials.

• Doe/Moffitt (Main Library)
Doe Circulation: (510) 642-4331
Moffitt Circulation: (510) 642-5072
Information/Reference: (510) 643-9999
Doe Library: National Union Catalog, Biobase, more.

• Newspaper/Microform, Periodicals
150 Doe Library
(510) 642-2975
Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 9am- 10pm, Fri.-Sat. 9am-5pm, Sun. 1pm-10pm
 
• Maps: Earth Sciences/Map Collection
Room 50, McCone Hall
Circulation: (510) 642-2997

San Francisco Public Library

Holdings include:

• History Center (415) 557-4567 & Special collections
• Microfilm catalog; SF Chronicle, SF Examiner, NY Times, more
• Newspaper Room
• U.S. and International City telephone directories
• Historical photographs

Oakland Public Library

Holdings include: Newspapers, other records and indexes for Alameda County. 

Santa Clara City Library

 Holdings include:

• Santa Clara County Records - Census 1852-1920, City Directories, Naturalizations, Cemetery Records
• California Records - Major County Histories, Death Index, Marriage Index
• Federal Census 1790-1840
• Federal Land Records
• Library Guides: LDS Family History Library, Library of Congress, Sutro Library, New York Public Library
• Genealogical Periodicals
• Military Resources

San Jose Public Library

California Genealogical Society and Library

California Historical Society

Sinai Memorial Chapel

 Most Jewish burials since 1937, owned as a not-for-profit by the Jewish community 

Napa Valley Genealogical Society Library

Emphasis on Napa and adjacent counties. Members will do researches for a $10 library donation

Jewish Historical Society of Napa Valley

Solano County Genealogical Society

Also includes Solano County Historical Society, Vacaville Heritage Council, Solano Archives