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"
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
A selection of notable Maltese — The famous, infamous, and some just interesting
Notable MalteseDouble click on above
Pages of Interest
In Their Own Words: Oral History Book of Maltese Family Immigration Stories
History of the Maltese American Social Club
Presidents of the Maltese American Social Club
St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church
Maltese Priests and Seminarians
St. Elizabeth's Maltese Society
Maltese Immigration to the San Francisco Bay Area
History of Maltese in Bay Area
Obituaries of Maltese Individuals
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)
Other Indexes
Contributors to the ME Project
Correspondents to the ME Project
Maltese American Websites of Interest
Maltese American Social Club
Maltese Cross Foundation
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
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.
(Double Click the above word)
Vella Family Pumpkins for 2023: