At 04:35 PM 2/18/00 -0800, Kelly Nuttall wrote: >I appologize for using only the acronym. A few people have asked me for >clarification: Kelly, There is more than one register of "Pioneers", and one acronym may not get the job done. I think the major problem is that those who belonged to one Org. may have belonged to several and the data had crossover. I requested "PARKER" of many volunteers as well as paid researchers and found little. I knew both brothers were here the summer of 1849, but imagine my surprise that a third brother also was here and became state senator! I had paid Shasta Hist Soc to search and got very little, but a researcher for hire who was a member of that and several others found a curious document, originating from the Redding DAR! No one has explained how the Daughters of the American Revolution was involved with CA 1849'ers to date, but I suspect it was the coincidance of "being a descendant" herself, and chairman of that parlor of DAR plus NDGW, plus a volunteer of Shasta Hist Soc, that resulted in her very thorough genealogy recorded in "Pioneer File" at the Hist Soc, on DAR forms (maybe ?) That she had personally interviewed all members of the family may have been only because she was related, but she had found all but one of 11 Parker bros from Scotland had come to America, several died in CW, several came to CA, and at least 3 stayed for life. That she found a mother in law had come as far as MA was a real find, and that "Chairman of DAR" was the only one in our family that documented more than ONE brother! Rest assured: there are "Pioneer Files" of many kinds, and not ALL are created equal! Nor do the Acronyms explain what they may contain ? (DAR ? 1849? where's the connection?) --JD