Hi Everybody, I recently joined this mailing list since I am starting a search for my grandfather William Brady b. Nov. 23, 1883 in San Francisco. His parents were reported to be James Brady and Nora Toohey. I am hoping to locate birth and/or baptismal records for him, also census records for the family. Family legend has it that William Brady had a brother Francis and a sister Loretta. In his Navy enlistment record (1918, Seattle, Washington) William lists his place of birth as San Francisco and his occupation as bricklayer. Possibly he was employed at the Ames Ship Yard, Seattle, Washington since he listed them as a reference in his Navy enlistment. In 1919 William Brady was released from active service at Philadelphia Navy Yard, he meet my grandmother and they married in 1920, thereafter living in Pennsylvania. I am hoping members of this list can give me some help with what genealogy resources are available to search San Francisco and California records for the time period 1880 – 1920. What genealogy societies are available, what online databases are available, what public libraries have genealogy collections, what websites are available focusing on San Francisco, CA? Does the Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco have baptismal records available and/or a database for burials in Catholic cemeteries? Are there any collections for orphanages in the San Francisco area? I expect to be doing my research from Pennsylvania via the internet, email and letters via US mail. Researching Brady, Toohey and Clary surnames David

David What was your grandfather's middle name for there a number of William Brady's? As to birth records, those I hate to say were lost in the Earthquake and Fire of 1906. Might be in a paper, but all it would say a boy born to the first name of the father, last name and to his wife. As to baptismal records maybe but would have know what church they want to or where they had it done. George David Vernon <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Everybody, I recently joined this mailing list since I am starting a search for my grandfather William Brady b. Nov. 23, 1883 in San Francisco. His parents were reported to be James Brady and Nora Toohey. I am hoping to locate birth and/or baptismal records for him, also census records for the family. Family legend has it that William Brady had a brother Francis and a sister Loretta. In his Navy enlistment record (1918, Seattle, Washington) William lists his place of birth as San Francisco and his occupation as bricklayer. Possibly he was employed at the Ames Ship Yard, Seattle, Washington since he listed them as a reference in his Navy enlistment. In 1919 William Brady was released from active service at Philadelphia Navy Yard, he meet my grandmother and they married in 1920, thereafter living in Pennsylvania. I am hoping members of this list can give me some help with what genealogy resources are available to search San Francisco and California records for the time period 1880 – 1920. What genealogy societies are available, what online databases are available, what public libraries have genealogy collections, what websites are available focusing on San Francisco, CA? Does the Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco have baptismal records available and/or a database for burials in Catholic cemeteries? Are there any collections for orphanages in the San Francisco area? I expect to be doing my research from Pennsylvania via the internet, email and letters via US mail. Researching Brady, Toohey and Clary surnames David ==== CASANFRA Mailing List ==== sfgenealogy.com Your best resource for FREE online genealogy in San Francisco http://www.sfgenealogy.com --------------------------------- Ring'em or ping'em. Make PC-to-phone calls as low as 1¢/min with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.

Hi, I'll be visiting The City for the next week beginning on Monday. I've done research on my line before, focusing primarily on the city library---mostly the city directories and some miscellaneous documents available at the SF History Center. I've also spent quite a few hours researching at the Sutro Library. What I'm looking for are some new sources to look at. Both my father and grandfather were born in the city. Here is an extract of my family that's relevant to San Francisco: John WATERS, b. 1870-1880?, Scotland, d. Unknown + Irene BERKLEY, b. 1869, Washington DC, d. Unknown ...Joseph John WATERS, b. 23 Oct 1898, San Francisco; d. 28 Mar 1965, Portland OR. ...Thomas I. WATERS, b. abt 1900, San Francisco; d. Unknown (possibly in OR) ...+Caroline Margaret SYLVIA, b. 11 Nov 1891, Hawkinsville, Siskiyou, CA, d. 8 Aug 1963, Portland OR ......Richard Joseph WATERS, b. 22 Dec 1919, San Francisco; d. 8 Nov 1979, Petaluma CA. The problem I have is a common one for those with San Francisco roots, namely that many records that are needed were destroyed in the 1906 fire. My grandfather, Joseph WATERS, was supposedly sent to an orphanage somewhere as a young child, according to living relatives. I do not know what happened to his parents...I've searched carefully through the mortuary records at the SFPL for them. The family was Catholic so that is one angle I'd be interested in pursuing. I have reason to believe that Joseph's parents (John Waters/Irene Berkley) may have never been married. I base this on the fact that Irene is shown with her maiden name in entries in the city directories and census dated after Joseph's birth. I know this is not proof of that but it does seem to indicate it. I've also carefully searched the SF newspapers (microfilm at SFPL) looking for birth announcements for Joseph but was unable to find anything for Oct 1898. My sources for his birth are his death certificate and his Social Security application. I've carefully searched both city directories and census for all WATERS lines in the city from 1870-1905, hoping to gain more information (for details see: http://satwatcher.net/genealogy/html/sfdir.html). So, to summarize, I'm wondering if there are more sources out there that I could take advantage of. Any suggestions would be most welcome! Aloha, Ken Waters Honolulu, Hawaii