- Gantner - Felder - Kenny
- Gantner - Maison - Domergue
- H. F. Suhr Company
- Godeau Funeral Home
- Martin & Brown Funeral Directors
- Quock Fook Sang Mortuary
- Halsted and Company
- Carew & English
- N. Gray & Company
Each one of the
mortuary firms in our family of companies
has a
long history of service to the San
Francisco
community. As you might imagine, to maintain literally hundreds of thousands
of funeral records in our mortuary facility has become
physically impossible.
For decades until very recently, we
had paid third-party record-keeping
companies to maintain and access these
files when requested.
For those researching their genealogy, it was not always easy or
cost-effective to obtain the information they were seeking.
We are happy to
announce that in order to make this information more easily accessible,
Halsted N. Gray - Carew & English has transferred the
majority of funeral records to Researchity, a local internet-based firm
and the San Francisco Public Library History Center Plans are
underway to ultimately have all the records digitized. While the
digitization project is estimated to take approximately a year or so,
www.researchity.com lists the funeral homes and year groups for which
they are maintaining records along with a means for requesting information
from them manually. You may also visit the
San Francisco Public Library
History Center for information on earlier records (from the
1850s to approximately 1920).
Halsted N. Gray - Carew & English maintains records
for approximately the last 20 years or so.
If you contact us requesting records retrieval, be aware that funeral records
are filed alphabetically within years or year groups. If you know
the exact date of death and name of an individual, it is more likely that we will
find the file than if you only have an approximate date of death.
We are happy to retrieve information from an on-site
file for you at no charge, but please realize it could take a day or two.
Alternate sources of information include:
The Certificate of Death, in many
cases, will give you more information than contained in the funeral file.
More often than not, the death certificate
includes names and states of birth of parents, date of birth of deceased,
interment information, medical data including cause of death, and
often, depending on the age of the record, it lists the name and address
of the individual responsible for making the arrangements. Different
counties maintain the original death certificate for varying times before
sending it to the State Registrar's Office in Sacramento. Most
counties keep the certificate for two years, after which copies of the
document must be ordered through the State Office. It is our
understanding that the City and County of San Francisco maintains this
information indefinitely. So, if you know the deceased person's
name, exact date of death, and that the death occurred in San Francisco,
you may contact the San Francisco
Health Department, Department of Vital Statistics, 101 Grove St., San
Francisco CA 94102, or visit their website for more
information.
http://www.sfdph.org/dphvital/dphvital.htm
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