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From: "Ruth Skewis" <>
Subject: RE: [CASANFRA] Francis Blair DONALDSON - San Francisco 1882
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 08:42:08 -0700
In-Reply-To: <2945E870F8C6D211A17A00A0C9EAFCA7B4F787@mail.moranhealthcare.com.au>


Hi Nick,

Welcome to San Francisco research! A good place to start to learn what is
available in San Francisco is to check out this site!

http://www.sfo.com/~timandpamwolf/sfrancty.htm

This San Francisco Genealogy site is part of the US GenWeb and CA GenWeb
projects - you will find all (and than some!) that you want to know about SF
Genealogy, including available records, it's cemeteries and much more!

Enjoy and Good luck!

RUTH

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Ruth(Grady)Skewis-Sacramento, CA (USA)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Batley [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 11:35 PM
> To:
> Subject: [CASANFRA] Francis Blair DONALDSON - San Francisco 1882
>
>
> Good afternoon to everyone from Sydney, Australia
>
> I hope that someone can help me with a query. Although I have been
> researching for 16 years, I have never had to contemplate research in the
> US, and particularly California, so I am completely at sea with
> US records,
> and need some help and advice. I hope that you will all excuse my
> naievety.
>
> A distant cousin was checking some microfilm copies of newspapers earlier
> this week, and came upon the following notice in the Sydney Morning Herald
> from Wednesday November 23, 1887
>
>
> IN MEMORIAM
>
> DONALDSON - In loving remembrance of my dear brother Francis
> Blair DONALDSON
> who departed this life on the 23rd of November 1882 at San Francisco,
> California.
> Inserted by his loving sister, Leah Donaldson. Lost in sight, to
> memory dear
>
> San Francisco papers please copy.
>
> The above-mentioned Francis Blair Donaldson was a cousin of my great great
> grandmother. He would have only been 15 years old in 1882, so I
> am assuming
> that he either went to sea as a cabin-boy or deck hand, and died on a trip
> to San Francisco, or that his whole family moved to San Francisco (the
> Donaldson family seem to disappear from Australian records c1883-4).
>
> My first question is: what is the situation with birth, death and marriage
> indexes in the US - is there a national register, or are they state or
> county-based ? Are there, in fact, indexes going back to the 1880s ? What
> are my chances of finding a registration for Francis Blair Donaldson ?
>
> The second question is - what cemeteries would have existed in 1882 in San
> Francisco, and would records for them still survive ?
>
> I hope that somebody is able to answer my queries.
>
> Thanking you in anticipation, and I hope you all have a good day (or
> evening, as the case may be !)
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Nick Batley
> Sydney, Australia
>
>
>
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