Cemeteries
Our resources
- Transcriptions of several cemeteries: Our Lady of the Pilar Catholic Cemetery, Russian Sectarian Cemetery (Colma), St. John's Cemetery (San Mateo), Union Cemetery (Redwood City), and Golden Gate National Cemetery (San Bruno).
- Photos of tombstones from several San Mateo County cemeteries: Cypress-Lawn, Eternal-Home, Golden Gate National, Holy Cross, Mt. Olivet, Skylawn, and Woodlawn.
- Do you have records you'd like to donate to our archives? You can submit your records online. Please email us if you have questions about submitting records.
Other online resources
- Find A Grave: San Mateo County. Some photographs and thousands of tombstone records.
- Interment.net: San Mateo County Cemeteries. Full or parital transcriptions for several cemeteries.
- sfgenealogy.com: Cemetery Information for the Counties of San Francisco and San Mateo. Several cemetery databases onsite as well as links to other helpful info.
Offline resources
- Burials in some small abandoned California cemetaries [sic] by Sherman Lee Pompey (Bakersfield, Calif. : Historical and Genealogical Pub., [196-?]). Also available from the Family History Library on microfilm.
- Grave yard beside the church at Old Mission San José; The Dennis Martin Cemetery. According to the note in the Family History Library catalog, the "Dennis Martin Cemetery is located in the hills behind Stanford University, near Searsville Lake, probably in San Mateo County."
- Nineteenth century cemeteries, San Mateo County, California by Amos C Carey, Shirley Burgett, and the Cypress Lawn Heritage Foundation. Includes maps.
