There is a CA-GOLDRUSH web site dedicated to "lost" ancestors where you can post a query: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/CAGOLDRUSH/goldrushdigest.html > -----Original Message----- > From: Your Name [mailto:jkennedywinterset@worldnet.att.net] > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 10:34 PM > To: CA-GOLDRUSH-L@rootsweb.com > Cc: CA-GOLDRUSH-D@rootsweb.com > Subject: Sacramento Resource Suggestions > > > I am planning to be in the Sacramento area in February looking for > information on my gggf, Robert Kennedy(b.1818 in Pa.) who left his > family in Illinois in 1858-60 and went around the Cape to the goldfields > of California. His wife received a few letters and then was never heard > from again. I have checked the Ca. census from 1860 -1900, San Francisco > Passenger lists and San Fran papers with no sucess. Any suggestions for > a starting place would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. > Jack Kennedy >