City and county records are great sources of past owners of your home.
Property ownership records from 1853, when Alameda County was created. Before 1853, the area that became Berkeley was part of Contra Costa County.
In 1954 the City of Berkeley gave many of its historic records to the Bancroft Library of U.C. Berkeley. Included are a host of records of when homes and businesses first got utility hookups from 1883-1927 and personal tax records from 1879-1936.
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