Visit the NORCAL index and you'll see volunteers for the Rasmussen books that cover 1850-53? passenger arrivals in CA - Rasmussen died and I dont' know if anyone is picking up where he left off. He extracted passenger lists that appeared in the Alta CA newspaper. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/NORCAL%20index/toc.shtml http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/norcallib.html (volunteers for book lookups) Colleen Norby Rootsweb sponsor ø,¸¸,ø*°´°*ø,¸¸,ø*°´°*ø,¸¸,ø*°´°*ø,¸¸,ø*°´°*ø,¸¸,ø -----Original Message----- From: BrooksGen4@aol.com <BrooksGen4@aol.com> To: CA-GOLDRUSH-L@rootsweb.com <CA-GOLDRUSH-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 4:57 PM Subject: [GOLDRUSH] Sailing the Horn vs. Riding the Desert >Hi Judy, > I have the same exact questions. My Thomas Brooks apparently sailed from >Wales and ended up in St.Louis MO. He then grabbed a wife and sailed around >the Horn to Grass Valley via San Fran. He was a Welsh mining engineer. How he >ended up in MO, I have no clue. Seems a wierd "jumping off" point, but he >made it here and made his fortune. I hope some day to figure that story out, >it has to be a ducey. I also have Irish emigrants who did it the old fashion >way and went from Ireland to Conneticutt to Nevada then Montana then >California. Something tells me alot depended on your financial status as too >what was the mode of emigration in those days. >Good luck in your search. I'm still trying to find out if there where arrival >lists for San Francisco passengers from 1850-1860. No one on this list has >answered even that little question. I'm hoping the "osmosis" method will kick >in here soon. :) >Ciao, Colin > > >==== CA-GOLDRUSH Mailing List ==== >Automatic Administrative Reminder: >We cannot post copyrighted materials to the Rootsweb lists >without written & signed permission from the author(s) >and/or publisher(s). >