"San Francisco is a mad city, inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of remarkable beauty." -Rudyard Kipling
SFGenealogy.com is a site created "...to provide FREE Internet access to genealogical and historical information for San Francisco and San Mateo Counties, and the State of California." The web site provides great information about the history of different neighborhoods, dating back as far as the site's owners can find data.
For example, here is one entry about the long-since-defunct Lone Mountain Cemetery (where USF is now located):
Dates of Existence: May 1854 to 1862
Location: between 162 and 170 square acres
Number interred: 7,000 (1862)
Moved to: see individual cemeteries
Notes: this cemetery was divided into the Calvary, Odd Fellow's and Laurel Hill cemeteries
The site also has rosters of graduates from a number of San Francisco high schools dating back into the 1930s. I noted that most of these rosters were donated by Judy Cerruti, Dianne Wentworth, and Dale Isaacson.
The site also contains research guides, maps, histories of many neighborhoods, old photographs, and much more.
Pamela Storm Wolfskill and Ron Filion have created an excellent resource that will be of interest to anyone with San Francisco ancestry. You can find this online gem at http://www.sfgenealogy.com.
Hi
My name is Per-Erik Grondahl and I live in Sweden. I wonder if you can help me found my lost relative. So far it has be very difficult but now I have recive a trace. The background for this is my grandmother and her father had two brothers and them emigrate to USA and one of them is Nils-Johan Eriksson he come to America 1882 with his wife and son. I have proof he and his family was in Burlington IOWA in the first time. Now I found out the name of his son Johan Martin Erickson he was born in sweden 1880-11-17 and after my reserch I found out he moved to California, county Siskiyou. He was in the World War I. I have copy of the registration card. He have a wife Hilma Erickson and two dauthers Bernice born 1910 and Elvia born 1908 all of them born in Wisconsin. Now that difficult begins I want to now if Bernice or Elvia get marreid and have family children and maybe change the last name. I now Bernice went to Stanford School of Nursing in San Francisco 1930. Elvia change maybe her first name to Eloma because I have found one Eloma Erickson she livs 1930 on 657 Buch Street in San Francisco she is born 1908 in Wisconsin. My question is? Are that any database or any register I can look. Maybe that is one you can tip me with perhaps one person who know anything about swedish emigrate.
Regards
Per Erik Grondahl Sweden
Posted by: Per-Erik Grondahl | October 13, 2006 at 03:13 PM