I am typing an index for the book, History of the SF Bay Region Vol. 3, Bailey Millard, The American Historical Society, Inc. 1924 for the Stanislaus County Genealogical Society. If anyone is interested, I will post names that appear in the index 25 at a time. Maiden names are listed separately as are married names for women. Many of these biographical sketches include information on ancestors from the East coast. To give you an idea of how many names there are in this volume, the first 18 pages of text have 110 separate names listed. The book also has pictures. There are a total of 416 pages in this volume. I thought it would be best for the list if I posted as I typed so that the list is not bogged down with lists and lists of names and I won't be swamped with lookup requests. If you would like a lookup, please list the name in the subject along with Millard Lookup to make it easier. I'll try to start posting the first names tomorrow. (It might be a few days between postings because typing names is really boring.) Here's an example: "George W. Root. Of three generations of the Root family conspicuous in the mining industry of the far West, George W. Root of San Francisco represents the second. His father, John F. Root, was a '49er, and a splendid example of the courage, persistence and will to success that made such characters memoral in history. John F. Root was a native of Ohio. He was only a boy when he arrived in California with the fearless argonaunts of 1849, after brazing the perils of the plants in the frontier of the Great West to get the opportunity of confronting the hazards and dangers of work in the California hills. Both success and disaster attended his efforts." The text goes on to describe his mining in El Dorado county and the State of Nevada and gives information on his wife and children.