California Orphans and Orphanages

Partial listing of 1900-1930 California Orphanages

 * Alameda Sanatorium (Alameda County)
 * Bird's Nest Orphanage (Alameda County)
 * Boys and Girls Aid Society of Los Angeles County (Los Angeles County)
 * Fred Finch Orphanage (also known as the Fred Finch Children's Home ) in Oakland, CA
 * Fresno County Orphanage (Fresno County)
 * Golden Gate Orphanage (Alameda County)
 * Good Templar Home for Orphans (Solano County)
 * Grass Valley Orphan Asylum (Nevada County)
 * Home of the Guardian Angel Orphanage (Los Angeles County)
 * I.O.O.F. Orphans' Home (Santa Clara County)
 * Industrial Home Society - renamed McKinley Children's Home
 * Josephonium Orphan Asylum (Alameda County)
 * Ladies' Relief Society's Home for Aged Women; Ladies' Relief Society's Orphanage (Alameda County)
 * Los Angeles Orphan Asylum (Los Angeles County)
 * Los Angeles Orphans Home (Los Angeles County)
 * The Maria Kipp Orphanage 1900 census (partial) listing here
 * Masonic Widow's and Orphan's Home (Alameda County)
 * McKinley Orphanage, 3841 19th Street, San Francisco.  Opened circa 1897
 * 1900 Census (San Francisco Methodist Orphanage)
 * 1910 Census (McKinley Orphanage and Youth's Directory)
 * 1920 Census (McKinley Orphanage)
 * 1930 Census (McKinley Orphanage)

1900 Census Fields
 * McKinley Children's Home, Origionally the Industrial Home Society (San Francisco County)
 * Notre Dame Institute (Santa Clara County)
 * Orphans' Home (San Bernardino County)
 * Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home Society (San Francisco County)
 * Protestant Orphan Asylum (Sacramento County)
 * Protestant Orphan Asylum (San Francisco County)
 * Sacramento Foundlings Home (Sacramento County)
 * San Francisco Boys Home (San Francisco County)
 * San Francisco Children's Orphanage (San Francisco County)
 * San Francisco Lying In Hospital and Foundling Asylum (San Francisco County)
 * St. Catherine's Orphan Asylum (San Bernardino County)
 * St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum (Marin County)
 * Sunshine Home Orphanage (Alameda County )
 * West Oakland Foundling Home ( Alameda County )
 * Women and Child's Home (San Diego County)
 * Youth's Directory (San Francisco County)


 * Name, relation, color, gender
 * Birth month, year, age
 * Marital status, years married
 * Mother of how many children, number of children living
 * Birth place, birth place of father, birthplace of mother
 * Year of immigration, number of years in the U.S., naturalization status
 * Occupation, months unemployed
 * Months at school, literacy (read, write, speak English)
 * Additional questions

Additional entries can be found at this RootsWeb link