We hope you'll join in recounting San Francisco history by contributing your unique stories to San Francisco Memory: A Living Archive of the City. We invite you to become registered users and begin using the site. We hope you'll add new writings, diaries from your grandparents, old family photos, historic images of the city, video clips of historic events you attended, scans of tickets, programs, buttons, etc. We also welcome comments on existing content, and repairs to errors where we might have made mistakes (one thing about doing a sprawling history project: there are always mistakes!).

The wiki format of the archive makes it easy to edit, add to, or create pages. Here's how:

To begin you'll need to Create an account, find this choice on the right sidebar.

Then:

Click Edit on the right sidebar
Make changes to the text of that page
Use the Mediawiki toolbar above the text for easy wiki formatting
Include a short note about your edits in the Summary field
Click Save Page
You can review your entry or edits by clicking Show Preview before you save your changes.

You can also create a new page by entering your suggested Title in the Search field.

Use the simplest title possible.
Click on Create this page at the top of the page to begin.
For general formatting guidelines, see our Style Sheet

Please always aim to improve the overall contents of the wiki with your edits.

If you are having trouble with San Francisco Memory: A Living Archive of the City, or have any questions or feedback about the project, please get in contact with us and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

The administrators of San Francisco Memory reserve the right to remove unsuitable content at any time.

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