National Archives at San Francisco

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Contact Information
E-mail: [mailto:sanbruno.archives@nara.gov sanbruno.archives@nara.gov]

Address:


 * Leo J. Ryan Memorial Federal Building 1000 Commodore Drive San Bruno, California 94066-2350

Telephone: 650-238-3501

Hours and holidays: Monday through Friday, 7:30 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., with extended hours on Wednesday until 5:30 P.M. Closed weekends and federal holidays.

Directions and public transportation:


 * by car
 * by public transportation

Internet sites and databases:


 * National Archives Pacific Region at San Francisco holdings, services, resources, what's new, nearby Presidential libraries.
 * Genealogy Research San Francisco branch resources.
 * National Archives Online Microfilm Catalog allows you to identify microfilms at San Bruno. Search by microfilm publication number, or keywords.
 * Access to Archival Databases (AAD) a search engine into some of NARA's holdings of electronic records. Search by person, geographic areas, organizations, or dates.
 * Archival Research Catalog (ARC) the online catalog of over 63% of NARA's nationwide holdings. Searches by keywords, by location, organization, person, or topics, and for digitized images.
 * Archives Library Information Center (ALIC) American history and government, archival administration, information management, and government documents for archivists, librarians, and the public.

Collection Description
Over 70,000 cubic feet of records 1850s to 1980s, and some recent as the early 2000s. These records were generated by the Federal courts and more than 100 Federal agency field offices in:


 * California (northern and central)
 * Nevada (except Clark County)
 * Hawaii
 * American Samoa
 * Guam
 * Marshall Islands
 * Caroline Islands (now Federated States of Micronesia)
 * Northern Mariana Islands
 * U.S. Navy bases on foreign territory in the Pacific and Far East.

They have the resources for studying Asian-Pacific immigration, environmental and natural history, naval and military activity in the Pacific, the American Indian experience, and many other aspects of United States history. Genealogical records include federal censuses and some indexes, censuses for American Samoa and American Indians in California and Nevada, the Five Civilized Tribes, San Francisco passenger arrivals, maritime records for west coast ports, Revolutionary War service records, bounty land warrants, and naturalizations, naturalization indexes for San Francisco, Honolulu, and Reno.

Tips

 * A researcher I.D. card is required. To obtain it you must show photo identification, and fill out a form showing your name, address, telephone number, and a brief description of the proposed research topic.
 * Over 68% of the Regional Archives' records are currently described in ARC at the series level. If you do not find the records you are seeking, please contact the Pacific Region San Francisco staff.

Guides

 * Guide to Archival Holdings at the National Archives at San Francisco record group level descriptions of archival holdings including agency administrative history.
 * Federal Records Guide Search NARA's holdings of federal records at a very high level, to identify which record groups may have material about your research topics. Alphabetical index to the Federal Records Guide. Record Groups by topic clusters in the Federal Records Guide.
 * Chinese Immigration and the Chinese in the United States including U.S. District Courts, census, customs, immigration and naturalization, public health, and U.S. Marshalls.
 * Alcatraz penitentiary inmates alphabetical index.
 * Case files for early immigrants to San Francisco and Hawaii]
 * Records for the Study of Ethnic History in the National Archives at San Francisco including African Americans, Asian Indians, Asian Pacific Islanders, Chinese and Chinese Americnas, Filipinos, Japanese and Japanese Americans, Latin Americans, and Native Americans.
 * Loretto Dennis Szucs, and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, The Archives: A Guide to the National Archives Field Branches (Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1988), 22-24. . ). Describes each field branch collection, microfilms, services and activities. Each of 150 record groups of the archives is also described.

Alternate Repositories
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Overlapping Collections


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Similar Collections



Neighboring Collections


 * Nixon Library and Museum
 * Reagan Library and Museum