I appologize for using only the acronym. A few people have asked me for clarification: NDGW = Native Daughters of theGolden West. Looking through the archives for this mailing list I found the link to an index for the NDGW pioneer roster: http://www.compuology.com/cpl/ndgwmaster.htm Apparently the NDGW has a record of california pioneers who lived or resided in california before 1870. This is all that I know about their organization but I would like to learn more. I answered one of my own questions by looking back through my links and found where I saw the CA room/pioneer cards. This is the NORCAL genealogy index which gives ideas for research/sources: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/NORCAL%20index/toc.shtml#GOLD RUSH They mention a california information file that I would like to get hold of. With my lousy memory I was thinking it might be the same as the NGDW roster, but it looks like it is not.