Databases

These certificates are located in Drawers 19-24 in the San Mateo County Record Repository. Types of Documents include: Sheriff's Certificate of Sale (names include sheriff and purchaser of land (p) and if found name of original land owner (o) a plaintiff is also often listed as in the case of a lawsuit the land is sold to satisfy it. In a tax delinquency the plantiff is the people); Sheriff's Certificate of Sale on Foreclosure Specific to mortgage holders; Sheriff's Certificate of Redemption; Copy of Writ of Attachment ( a court order to "attach" or seize an asset. It is issued by a court to a law enforcement officer or sheriff. The writ of attachment is issued in order to satisfy a judgment issued by the court.); Copy Writ of Execution (a court order granted to put in force a judgment of possession obtained by a plaintiff from a court.[1] When issuing a writ of execution, a court typically will order a sheriff or other similar official to take possession of property owned by a judgment debtor. Such property will often then be sold in a sheriff's sale and the proceeds remunerated to the plaintiff in partial or full satisfaction of the judgment.); Release of Attachment; Sale on Execution (a sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation; Constable's Sale (sold at township rather than county level) ; Sale by City Treasurer (usually for non payment of improvement bonds, most were redeemed); and Conveyance of Real Estate for Delinquent Taxes

Index to volumes 1-4 San Mateo County Homesteads, covering the years 1860 through 1913. There are also references to homesteads filed in Deeds. Images of the Homestead volumes are available on FamilySearch.

When there is no one to administer an estate it falls into the hands of the Public Administrator. These reports cover 1880 and then 1897 through 1960 with about a dozen missing years. They include names, dates, amount of the estate and costs. Various years include other information.

This collection currently includes over 57,000 indexed and scanned obituaries as well as a large collection of obituaries that are indexed elsewhere. Included are the Redwood City/ Peninsula Times Tribune Obituary Morgue (1969-1992); The SMCHA obituary Collection which includes obituaries culled from the historical societies biographical files; The Daily Post; The Daily Journal; The Daily Post; The San Mateo County Times (assorted); San Mateo County Residents in the SF Examiner (1906-1959); Veteran's Memorials; and a collection of obituaries of former San Mateo County residents from other papers. The scanned images also include the Pacifica Times Tribune and the San Mateo Times from 1999, which were indexed by Chris Havanar on The Obituary Daily Times The original index was created by the SMCGS Computer Club and images are available in the SMCGS Library. See research to obtain digital copies of those as well as the added obituaries.

This list includes employees found in census records and in the Treasurer's Book located in the San Mateo County History Museum Archives.

A comprehensive listing of both those who were admitted to the San Mateo County Poor Farm / Hospital from it's opening in 1876 until 1942. The list also includes those who were buried in the Farm Cemetery even if they were never residents of the Farm. There are some gaps in information but the listing includes over 3700 entries.

These contracts are located in the County Record Repository.

In 1941, President Roosevelt ordered that all industry essential to the war effort be non-discriminatory in all hiring practices without regard to race, creed, color, or national origin. Workers who felt that discrimination had occurred could file a formal complaint with the FEPC (Fair Employment Practices Committee, 1941-1945) and the situation would be investigated and changes made where appropriate and possible. The records for northern California, Portland, and Seattle produced in the San Francisco office of the FEPC, Region 12, contain letters, complaint forms, and more, and are stored in RG 228 at the National Archives, Pacific Region, San Francisco, California (located in San Bruno). • A complete indexing of these files is in the attached PDF • Contact NARA in San Bruno to set up an appointment to see the files.

Arranged numerically by case file number. The parties in cases in this series are private individuals, corporations, and municipal governments. The United States is not a party in any case. Cases involve ejectment (wrongful occupation of lands, squatters), patent fraud, import impoundment, promissory notes, water lots in San Francisco, unpaid taxes and unpaid moneys, lands in Oakland (Kellersburger map), San Mateo (Rancho de las Pulgas), Santa Clara (Guadalupe Mines), John C Fremont, Pacific Mail Steamship Company, trips across the Isthmus of Panama, Gustave Touchard, and more. These cases are very local and tell great stories of California in its early statehood. - Record Group 21, Records of District Court of the United States - U.S. Circuit Court for Districts of California

Papers Concerning Appeals from Justice Courts and Change of Venue to San Mateo County Superior Court 1882-1930 which is located in drawer 32 of cabinet RC5B1.

Found in Drawer RC5B1‐31 The lists in this drawer are a combination of Certified Lists created by the Board of Supervisors at the request of various court judges and lists created to show that the jury summons had been delivered. When both existed for the same time and court, double entries were eliminated. There are many gaps in the lists. Some lists name the court that has requested jurors, others do not. Some lists give a residence address others do not.

This index includes Volumes A-C, Volumes 1-53, Delayed Births 1-5, and the Birth Affidavit Register which lists births filed with Official Records.

Every name index to the San Francisco Volumes of Richard Schellen's Collection of Historical Materials

An index to Saloons mentioned in the San Francisco Volumes of Richard Schellen's Collection of Historical Materials

Every name index to the California Volumes of Richard Schellen's Collection of Historical Materials

Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles for San Mateo County Residents

Those non-citizens who served in the US Forces during WWI were able to become naturalized before they were discharged. This is an index to the 13 volumes of Petitions of those who were discharged from Camp Fremont (Menlo Park) in 1918 and 1919. No Declaration of Intention was required.

Index to the Naturalization Records of San Mateo County. Includes Declaration of Intention to Become a Citizen, Petitions and Certificates. These records are available unindexed on FamilySearch.

Index to the Register of Separate Property of Married and Sole Traders (1856-1913). Indexed by Barry Goyette. The register is labeled Volume 1, but no other volumes appear to exist, this register is not full. There are 100 documents. You will find a digital version of this volume on FamilySearch

An eclectic collection of records that includes birth and marriage affidavits, at least one estate record, a certificate of residence for Doctors, Conveyance of property to utilities, dedication of land to cemeteries, powers of attorney, Disability retirement of Major Thomas J. McGrath, street name changes, estray notices, nuisance abatement filings from the 1920s (the nuisance being those pesky ground squirrels that still scamper around my yard today) and the real "genealogical" treasure a Japanese American Citizen's League Oats of Allegiance circa 1942.

From lists found in the Miscellaneous Drawers in the County Recorders Record Facility. Use as a pointed to death, retirement or leaving the area.