Research the History of Your Home at the Parkside Branch

San Francisco History Center's archivist and photo curator will be presenting Research the History of Your Home at the Parkside Branch Library on Wednesday, June 20. The program starts at 7 pm, with plenty of time for questions and answers.  The presentation will include online tips for the research steps in finding out who owned a particular building and who lived in it.  Print-only resources such as Index to Papers on File will be discussed.  There will also be pointers on how to find a photograph of a building, including how to use the recently digitized San Francisco Aerial Views, 1938 and the San Francisco Assessor's Office Negative Collection. But there's no need to wait for the program in order to get started with your research: begin with the San Francisco History Center's online guide How to Research a San Francisco Building.

Twenty-first Avenue at Taraval Street, 1946

San Francisco History Center staff will also be presenting Research the History of Your Home at the Noe Valley Branch on Saturday, July 28.  If you'd like us to come to your local San Francisco Public Library branch to do a program, talk to your branch librarian!

Because researching San Francisco buildings is one of the more popular subjects researched in the San Francisco History Center, What's on the 6th Floor? adds blog entries about research building tips frequently - including what has been recently digitized.

Photograph courtesy of the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection, San Francisco History Center.