Below is a post I made back in 1998- Since the post are more resources available , including census on line!, but this may be of help to someone---- Diane, may I have the first names and where these folks you requested for the lookup were from (if known)- I will look them up and report back in a separate post- Best, Carolyn ============================================================ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 17:12:52 -0800 From: Carolyn Feroben <funfifty@pacbell.net> To: CA-GOLDRUSH-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <3671C314.2CF5@pacbell.net> Subject: [CA-GOLDRUSH-L] CALIFORNIA INDEXES for 1850's! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit These California indexes can help find your early CA pioneers: 1850 Census: -Ronald Vern Jacksons Index to the 1850 Census, pub 1978, includes 59,594 names and gives county, town of residence and leaf number of the schedule. A P Bowmans Index to the 1850 Census, pub 1972, is not in alpha order, but in 24** sections (by county). 30,000 names are included along with age, state or country of nativity, and census schedule leaf number. **REMEMBER- Contra Costa, San Francisco and Santa Clara Counties are not included in the 1850 census due to thier being lost or destroyed!! 1852 CA Census: microfilmed, three reels of the thirty counties of 1852. 140,000 names indexed in a volume-by-volume index (county -by- county). These three indexes only include the heads of households and persons with different surnames living in the same household. 1856 Personal Name Index : This resource was compliled by Nathan C Parker, Gale Research Company, (sorry, don't have the pub date). This work was compiled in order to provide an indexed source of the population of California between the 1852 census and the 1860 census. The population of California grew rapidly during this time frame==1850 pop was 92,597, 1860 pop was 379,994! This index may include some of those folks who came after 1852 and who had returned "home" by the 1860 census. The source of the 24,087 names ,alpha indexed, are the 1856 directories of San Francisco, Sacramento, Stockton, Nevada City, Marysville, and Tuolumne County plus separate listings of blacks and Chinese also found in the main listing . Information provided in this index is the code for the directory where originaly listing was found, the page number, previous city, state or foreign country of residence (when given). San Francisco did not give the previous residence information. Darn-:) Because you do not live in California does not mean that these resources are not located in your local Library or FHC. Check it out! Other sources not covered here are Rasmussens ships, train, and wagon lists. Also Charles WArren Haskins lists of California Argonauts published in 1890. Index to the Argonauts of California- contains 27,000 names and published in 1975 compiled by Spinazze. I found the above information all contained in the forward to the _Personal Name Index to the 1856 City Directories of California_ by Nathan C Parker. The forward was written by J Caryle Parker. Have fun, Carolyn -----Original Message----- From: DiJaq@aol.com <DiJaq@aol.com> To: CA-GOLDRUSH-L@rootsweb.com <CA-GOLDRUSH-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, April 02, 2000 4:16 PM Subject: [GOLDRUSH] Re: CA-GOLDRUSH-D Digest V00 #68 >Would Carolyn tell us about the Parkers Index she did that lookup in? My >relatives were Gold Rush merchants in Calaveras County and I'd appreciate any >info. Surnames are Meyer(Oser aka Oscar). Michaelson, and Friedlander. Thank >you much in advance. diane > >