For anyone lucky enough to know the county of the family they are searching here are a few sites that can be of help to you. The California County GenWeb Page. Go to the county of your interest. http://www.compuology.com/cagenweb/ Many of these county sites list local volunteers who can do records searching, book lookups, newspapers, online cemetery listings etc. Also local history center, genalogy societies etc. Also check to see what societies are available here: at the California Genalogical Societies site: http://www.jspub.com/~jsp/gsociety.html there is this for El Dorado- Eldorado Research Society P.O. Box 56 El Dorado, California 95623 The California Pioneer Project - you may find a biography indexed on your folks or another researcher who is also working on your family. http://www.compuology.com/cpl/ There are lots of interesting research sites (and more being added daily). I think that the above are good beginings. Best of luck to all of you. Carolyn Zephyrs Quilts wrote: > > Helen: > There are the usual federal census schedules; CA voter > schedules; land records; tax records; church records, etc. > Perhaps El Dorado County had other records that will > be of help to you, but I do not have ancestors in El > Dorado County so cannot be sure what is available. > Sorry if this is a duplicate, but I have not seen a reponse > to your message on the list. Good luck! > Patricia <[email protected]> > > Helen J Kirtlan-Fingado wrote: > > > ROBERT NELSON was a miner in El Dorado Co., CA in the late 1860's and > > 1870, probably living at that time in Diamond Springs. Can anyone tell > > me if information is available on miners in this period? > > > > Any suggestions will be appreciated. > > Helen > >