My great-grandmother's cousin Anna H. Goldstein (born about 1895) married a man named Jacob Barman Jr. in 1912. I found the marriage certificate on Family Search. Until 1923, Anna was listed as Jacob's wife in city directories. I could not find Jacob and Anna in the 1920 Census. I searched by name, approximate name, and even looked for the addresses where they had lived according to the city directories. (To make matters more confusing, Jacob's parents were Jacob and Annie, and they are in the 1920 Census.)

Here is my problem. After the 1923 City Directory, I can find no evidence of Anna. There is no listing for the Barmans at all in the 1924 directory. In the 1925 directory, Jacob lived with his parents and Anna's name is not listed. In 1926, Jacob had a new wife. I looked in the California Death Indices from 1905-1939 and from 1940-1997 and cannot find a listing for Anna Barman. The closest was a Fannie Barman, but I have seen that death certificate, and it is not the same person.

On Family Search, I tried to find the marriage certificate from Jacob's second marriage to see if he was listed as divorced or widowed, but there are no certificates on the website for 1924 and 1925. I did find the listing in the Grooms Index on Family Search for a marriage between Jacob Barman and Beatrice (Rabinowitz) Shiman. It's in Vol. 21 of the Grooms Index, 1925, p. 19 of 278. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-21965-6800-72?...). They married on 12 May 1925, and their marriage certificate is listed on p. 38 of Book 244--which again, unlike other years, is not online so far as I can tell. Family Search seems not to have Books 227-253 of the San Francisco Marriage Licenses.

I have looked for information about how to get the marriage certificate, but it does not look like I can order it online. Does anyone know anything about San Francisco marriage certificates, and if it is possible to obtain a copy or can someone do a look-up (I live on the other side of the country)? Do the certificates from 1925 still exist? I head that Anna died young, but I cannot find her on the Death Index; is that a common phenomenon?

Can anyone help?

Thank you in advance.