Everton will allow you to SUBMIT INFO FOR FREE!!!! Gee, thanks. If there is a way to search their files, I haven;t found it yet. I am going to try it one more time, since I am "registered." Genealogical inquiry is lighting up the Internet and attracting all kinds of private enterprise. Lotsa little ee-lectronic Sam Brannans about. I am frequently notified by KINDRED KONNECTIONS (love that name, hyuk hyuk). They hint that they might have something I haven;t seen, but I doubt it. On more pertinent topics, there have been a few questions about the Gold Rush on this forum lately that caused me to thus comment: There are excellent books out regarding the Gold Rush. I highly recommend primary sources that I read and re-read by these people: J.D. Borthwick, Frank Marryat, Etienne Derbec, F. Gerstaecker and Dame Shirley. Most of the questions not specifically about individuals asked on this forum recently would be answered in those pages. The recent book by Malcolm Rorbaugh (Days of Gold) covers the social aspect even better than the much-celebrated Holliday book. For violence and gunplay, John Boesseneckers newest "Gold Dust and Gunsmoke" is breathtakingly complete on that subject. For lingo and Clamper culture, the very old Ritchie book "the Hell-Roarin 49ers" is great, but not to be relied on for historical accuracy. Some of the best books, including a few above are very old or very rare. Find your best local OLD library. It's funny, you can tell about the buyers' interests from the old days by the selection of books in the stacks. I think that the 50, 100 and now 150 year anniversaries of the Gold Rush spurred on publication and subsequent purchases of some great Gold Rush books. And don;t be turned off by ragged covers or smoky smells, they could be treasures of info for you. Also, the bio sections of County Histories often have good clues even though they are not always real historically accurate. If you have good bookstores who re-sell, check em frequently. I regularly check at Black Oak books in Berkeley because everytime an old Cal professor dies, there's a good chance the stuff will end up there. Recently I saw a book from 1853, published in CA about the Gold Rush, I think it was by Lett (and I think it has been reprinted). Water-stained but all pages there for $80. They also had, that day, a Spanish-English translation of Font's Diary, published in 1928 for $30. Specialty stores are not going to price as cheap I think as those that I saw. I hate to say it, but I think I was viewing someone's estate, liquidated by someone with less interest in CA History than the dear-departed. Some days there is nothing but on others..... I'm not trying to be a know-it-all or gush, but I have read every single book about the Gold Rush I could lay hands on and I urge you to read because it really can clear up some problems you might encounter in your genealogical pursuits; social patterns, town histories, clues about specific Plains journeys, old placenames etc. Even though tens of thousands of men came every season, you do start to get a feel for who went where among Anglo-Americans, mostly. Best wishes, Lance Beeson