10 January 2013
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1906 Earthquake Centennial Alliance
Helps coordinate & promote efforts and activities between organizations throughout Northern California planning to commemorate the earthquake.
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A Most Dreadful Earthquake: A First-Hand Account of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
This new book, by Dorothy Fowler and published & sold by the California Genealogical Society, offers insight into the daily lives of regular people as they made do and moved on after the 1906 disaster. Bringing together previously unpublished letters from the spring and summer of 1906, this book vividly presents one young woman's first-hand account of her experiences in San Francisco.
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Raking the Ashes: Genealogical Strategies for Pre-1906 San Francisco Research
This new book available in April 2006, by Nancy Peterson & published by the California Genealogical Society, addresses difficulties encountered by researchers seeking early San Francisco city & county records. It tells where to find extant original pre-1906 records, describes the losses & points the way to alternative sources.
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San Francisco Deaths, 1865-1905
This project, compiled by Barbara Ross Close et al & published by the California Genealogical Society, was developed to fill the gaps for researchers because many pre-1905 San Francisco death records were destroyed in April 1906. This work integrates surviving city records with reliable secondary records, such as newspaper obituaries, and provides an easily searchable database.
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A Most Dreadful Earthquake: A Firsthand Account of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
Book by Dorothy Fowler & published by the California Genealogical Society, offers insight into the daily lives of regular people as they made do and moved on after the 1906 disaster. Bringing together previously unpublished letters from the spring and summer of 1906, this book vividly presents one young woman's first-hand account of her experiences in San Francisco.
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A Most Dreadful Earthquake: A Firsthand Account of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
Book by Dorothy Fowler & published by the California Genealogical Society, offers insight into the daily lives of regular people as they made do and moved on after the 1906 disaster. Bringing together previously unpublished letters from the spring and summer of 1906, this book vividly presents one young woman's first-hand account of her experiences in San Francisco.
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Genealogy and History for the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The Bancroft Library Presents: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
This digital archive of thousands of images and texts commemorates the 100th anniversary of the April 18, 1906, San Francisco earthquake and fire. Features include an exhibit divided into thematic groups (such as before the disaster, firestorm, and reconstruction), an interactive map of the city with associated images, and a panoramic collage of San Francisco shortly after the disaster. Presented by the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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The Great 1906 Earthquake And Fire
From the Museum of the City of San Francisco.
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Combined list of survivors and victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake & fire. From the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco.
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San Francisco 1906 Earthquake Great Register
Project to record deaths, survivors & anyone affected by the great earthquake & fire. Requests information from descendants. From the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco.
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A list of persons who died as a result of the Great Earthquake & Fire in San Francisco on April 18, 1906.
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