Thank you. Just trying to definitively determine the complete names of both parents. Laurie ----- Original Message ----- From: "James R Smith" <jim@historysmith.com> To: <norcal@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 4:34 PM Subject: Re: [NORCAL] Birth Certificates Available for 1878? >I found these in the SF Call Index by Jim Faulkinbury. You can order the >birth announcements for a small fee. They should give you the dates. From >there you can look up the city directories and census records. > http://www.jwfgenresearch.com/SFCallIndex.htm > Johnston, dau of L.W. ... born in 1876 ... 1876B-702 > Johnston, dau of W.W. ... born in 1876 ... 1876B-703 > Johnstone, dau of Thomas ... born in 1876 ... 1876B-704 > > Jim > > -- > James R. Smith > Author/Speaker/Researcher > Author: San Francisco’s Lost Landmarks > California Snatch Racket, June 2010 > San Francisco's Playland at the Beach: The Early Years, Sep 2010 > www.HistorySmith.com > > > > > > > Chuck Fowler and Laurie Angel wrote: >> Is it even worth the effort to request a birth certificate for my great >> grandmother, Mable Elizabeth Johnston(e) born 2 Aug 1876 in SF? She and >> her brother were orphaned early in life. I have not been able to >> definitely determine who her parents were, nor when they died nor how. >> >> Laurie Angel >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <cydrawls@aol.com> >> To: <norcal@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:44 AM >> Subject: Re: [NORCAL] Birth Certificates Available for 1878? >> >> >> Hi Tom, >> The fires after 1906 earthquake took care of all the city records in San >> Francisco. There are none. I checked the San Francisco Call database, no >> luck there. The closest you can get is the 1880 census. >> Here is that info: >> >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:55:40 -0500 >> From: Thomas Brew <tbrew@uwindsor.ca> >> Subject: [NORCAL] Birth Certificates Available for 1878? >> To: norcal@rootsweb.com >> Message-ID: >> >> <OFCCE11D51.B50746F3-ON8525768E.0077DEC5-8525768E.0078C4F5@uwindsor.ca> >> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >> >> Looking for a birth certificate / notice for a Fredrick R. (Robert?) >> Michael born May 28, 1878 in California, San Francisco. >> >> Is it possible that such records exist? >> >> Thanks for your time.... >> >> Tom in sunny Canada.... brrrrrrrr >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ----------------------------------------- >> NORCAL ARCHIVES: >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ >> Enter NORCAL. Browse by month. >> Or click the "Search all archives" link to search by keyword. >> ----------------------------------------- >> To post a message to the NORCAL mailing list, send an email to >> NORCAL@rootsweb.com >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NORCAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > >