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The Maltese Immigration

 to the San Francisco Bay Area Project (c)

compiled by Charles J Vella, PhD, 2024


 


The Maltese Immigration to the San Francisco Bay Area Project is a genealogical research site dedicated to all those born on the island of Malta who immigrated to the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States. It is an attempt to gather and distribute information on the descendants of all Maltese immigrants to the San Francisco Bay Area (all the cities within an hour's drive of San Francisco) that are found in the US Censuses from 1790 to 1950, as well as the public domain California Birth and Marriage Indexes. It has been enhanced by all the Maltese Passport applications (with a destination to San Francisco) issued between 1900-1938, that have been digitalized at the Malta National Archives, at Rabat, Malta and compiled by migration researcher Mark Caruana of  Sydney, Australia. It also includes information from numerous US Naturalization documents.

The MI Project database currently has ~13,500 persons, both individuals and their descendants.

If you are a Maltese emigrant or a descendant of a Maltese emigrant, please consider contributing your ancestry or descendancy to this project. Any data submitted to the ME Project will be cited to the contributor in any future publication and the contributor will be noted on the website. If you need help with your Maltese research, please contact me:

Dr. Charles J. Vella (click on the name for email address)

 

Send any Maltese descendancy data you want to contribute to the ME Project (I can use Gedcom, TMG, FTM, PAF, Word, or text formats) to the above email address. I use The Master Genealogist V. 9 as my genealogy program.

 

Please use the following citation if you use data from this site: "Maltese Immigration to the San Francisco Bay Area Project, compiled by Charles J. Vella, PhD, 2024"
 
If you believe any information found on this website is in error, please forward the correct information to Dr. Charles J Vella (click on the name for email address).
 
Privacy Policy: If you want some information found on this website removed, please email me and explain your reason. All of the data on this website is public domain information or included with permission. But I will consider an individual request with an appropriate reason.




The Earliest Maltese Emigrants

 

A listing of the earliest emigrants to the San Francisco Bay Area

Earliest Maltese Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area

Double click on above

 

 



Notable Maltese



       Maltese Immigration Database Indexes

 

Maltese Immigration genealogies: Double clicking on any surname in blue in any index will transfer you to their descendants or ancestors.

 

Master Index (Search invidual names)

Surname Index

Master Place Index

 


Other Indexes

Contributors to the ME Project

Correspondents to the ME Project



Maltese American Websites of Interest

Maltese American Social Club

Maltese Cross Foundation

Maltese Heritage Association

 



History of the Maltese in the San Francisco Bay Area

 

St Paul of the Shipwreck History

A History of the Maltese Immigration to the Bay Area

Maltese Immigration to the San Francisco Bay Area

Growing up in the BayView

Presidents of Maltese American Social Club

Pastizzi by the Vellas

Maltese in the Portola District  An Interview with Barbara Fenech

Keeping the Maltese culture in San Francisco alive with Hon. Louis Vella

Keeping the Maltese culture in San Francisco alive by Albert Gales

Present Situation in the United States of America

  
The Hidden History of the Maltese Genome 
 
Family Historical Questionnaire

 

 

 


 

Search the Maltese Immigration Database

 

Search for any name in the Maltese Immigration Project (names in quotes are more specifically searched).
Once a page is found, double clicking on a blue highlighted name takes you to that name.

Search

(Double Click the above word)

 

 



 

Submission of New Information to ME Project

Submission of New ME Information

(Double Click the above line)

 



Vella Family Pumpkins for 2023:

https://youtu.be/ZLNf6sf42oI


 


Compiler: Charles J. Vella, PhD

Copyright (c) 2023 by Charles J. Vella, PhD. All rights reserved.


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