Hi Martha, Do you happen to have a Fred Nathaniel FLETCHER Thanks, Melville Fletcher Tokyo

Dear Stephen, pg 291; LUTZ, Rudy; Age 23 Bplace NY; Residence Oakland 6th Ward precinct 1; Registration date 29 Aug 1890. >Yes, I'm curious about "Rudy LUTZ". Martha near Seattle

Dear Trudy, >Do you have anything on James J. STOKES? no James J, here are STOKES: STOKES, Bernard Joseph age 23 born CA; Edward age 41 born England; Levi, age 42 born TN; Patrick Age 51 born Ireland, Richard Henry age 22 born CA Martha near Seattle

Dear Raymond, Just send a message to the list with the name you want looked up. Remember, this is a list of registered voters, which means only male citizens over the age of 21! Martha near Seattle - >Dear Martha, > > How do we address you via the list. Do we title our query "1890 Alameda >County Great Register"? What information do we include in our request? Is the >name sufficient? > >Thank you, > >Raymond Tompkins

Martha wrote: > I will be happy to do lookups, but to keep my sanity, there have to be some > rules. Hi Martha, Very kind of you. Do you have anything on James J. STOKES? Thank you very much, Trudy Bray

Dear Martha, How do we address you via the list. Do we title our query "1890 Alameda County Great Register"? What information do we include in our request? Is the name sufficient? Thank you, Raymond Tompkins Martha near Seattle wrote: > Dear Listers, > > To quiet some confusion, the 1890 Alameda County Great Register is an > official list of registered voters in the county of Alameda in 1890. > > Please note, women could not vote in 1890. Only MALE CITIZENS, naturalized > or native-born, could vote. > > Also please note I can only reply to requests posted to the list. > > Thank you, > Martha > near Seattle > > ==== CAALAMED Mailing List ==== > Alameda County, California CAGenWeb > http://www.katpher.com/alamecty/alamecty.htm

Yes, I'm curious about "Rudy LUTZ". Some of the alternate spellings of Lotz are Lutz, Loetz, Luts, Lots, etc. The reason I'm curious is that I have a distant "cousin" in Germany named Rudi Schroeder. There has been no contact with him since the 1960s, but he is about my age and should be around still. I just sent a letter to the only Rudi Schroeder listed in one of the Internet White Pages for Hamburg so maybe I've found him. I've never heard of the Schleswig-Holstein Veren in San Francisco. If anyone has any info, I would be interested. Is this an ongoing organization or was it an immigrant organization that has died out? The existence of such a group might explain how my great grandparents got to the bay area. Speaking of organizations, Henry Lotz was a Mason. Is it possible to contact the Masons and get information about former members? Roselawn Cemetery, were these people are buried, was started by the Masons in Livermore. I have the remains of a parchment, now mostly eaten by bacteria, that identified Henry as a Mason. The document is (was) written in German. My wife can read the old German script so translation wasn't a problem. Also, the picture on it was a dead giveaway. It's the same one you can see in many histories of Germany depicting a leaderhosen clad hunter entering his home with a fist full of game to much excitement by wife and kids. Now that I've mentioned Masons, my other great grandfather, Capt. Charles Harrington McLeod, was a Mason as well. He settled late in life in Oakland, CA with his second family. He was born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia in 1840 and died in S.F. Harbor in 1911 after rowing out to his ship, the Costa Rica. Capt. Charlie is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Oakland with his half brother Capt. Will. I don't expect Capt. Charlie was a registered voter in 1890. His second family is included in the Pictou County, Nova Scotia census of 1901. He was probably at sea at the time. Regards Steve McLeod Markham, Virginia Dear Steve, remember, women could not vote in 1890 so will not be listed. >Henry (or Heinrich) LOTZ and wife Geesche (or Lanrap). No LOTZ, or LOTS, there is a Rudy LUTZ. No LANRAP >house was owned by Magnus HANSEN, "a cousin pg 17, HANSEN, Magnus; Age 39; Bplace Germany; Residence Murray/Livermore Ward 2; Registration date 16 Oct 1890; Naturalized. Martha near Seattle

Dear Steve, remember, women could not vote in 1890 so will not be listed. >Henry (or Heinrich) LOTZ and wife Geesche (or Lanrap). No LOTZ, or LOTS, there is a Rudy LUTZ. No LANRAP >house was owned by Magnus HANSEN, "a cousin pg 17, HANSEN, Magnus; Age 39; Bplace Germany; Residence Murray/Livermore Ward 2; Registration date 16 Oct 1890; Naturalized. Martha near Seattle

Dear Chris, >Abner DOBLE, this is closest: pg 31; DOBBEL, Ernst Albert; Age 28; Bplace CA; Residence Wash/Alvarado; Registration Date15 Aug 1890. >Michael Joseph DOYLE: pg125; DOYLE, Michael Joseph; Age 40; Bplace MA; Residence Berkeley 4th Ward; Registration Date 27 Sep 1890. >Francis FERRIER no FERRIER; Closest is Frederick FERRER, Age 22 Bplace CA; Residence Oakland Sixth Ward, Precinct 5; Registration date 5 Sep 1890 All three of these entries are marked in the remarks column, meaning there may be additional information--such as physical description, occupation, street address--on the original application...which are available in the archives at California State University, Hayward. Martha near Seattle

Christine, I also have a receipt for the Oakland Cremation Association for my grandfather. Both my grand parents and my parents remains are located at the Oakland Crematorium and Columbarium which is located west of Mountainview Cemetery. Chapel of the Chimes Mortuary, 4499 Piedmont Ave., Oakland, CA 94611 have the records. Phone 510 654 0123 Ralph Anderson Boulder, CO rkaboulder@bwn.net

Martha: Henry (or Heinrich) LOTZ and wife Geesche (or Lanrap). They lived at 1374 W. 4th St., Livermore, CA. The address was changed in the 1950s to 1932 4th St. Henry died 23 Sep 1899 so he isn't in the 1900 census. They immigrated from Schleswig-Holstein in 1871. For more interest, the house was owned by Magnus HANSEN, "a cousin." My father's Aunt Laura, listed in the census below, later owned the house and my father inherited it from her. My brother and I grew up in this same house. After we moved to the east coast, the house was sold to someone who wanted to put a business on the site and he had the house torn down and the garden bulldozed even though the city had an easement on the property for its historical value and for the uniqueness of the vegetation in the garden. Magnes, Geesche, Henry, and Laura are all buried in Roselawn cemetery in Livermore. Lena, my grandmother, is buried with Grandpa, Capt. John Daniel McLeod, in Moutainview Cemetary in Oakland, CA. The Roselawn cemetery tombstone transcriptions are on the Web on the Livermore genealogy societies web site with a few transcription errors. Here is the 1900 census: State: California County: Alameda Supervisors District No. 1 Enumeration District No. 334 Sheet No. 3 Township or other division of county: Murray Township Name of incorporated city, town, or village, within the above named division: Livermore Town Listed on line 25 Lotz, Lanrap; Head; white; female; birth July 1845; age 54; widow; mother of 2; 2 living children; Place of birth, Germany; Place of birth of father; Germany; place of birth of mother, Germany; year of immigration 1871; number of years in US, 29; occupation, nurse; months not employed, 0; can read, yes; can write, yes; can speak English, yes; Own or Rent, rent; Farm or House, house. Listed on line 26 Lotz, Laura; relation to head, daughter; white; female; date of birth, Aug 1876; age 23; single; place of birth, California; place of birth of father, Germany; place of birth of mother, Germany; occupation, house-keeper; months not employed, 0; read, yes; write, yes; English, yes; listed on line 27 Lotz, Lena; relation to head, daughter; white; female; date of birth, Jan 1878; age, 22; place of birth, California; place of birth father, Germany; place of birth of mother, Germany; occupation, teacher; months not employed, 0; read, yes; write, yes; English, yes; Regards Steve McLeod Markham, Virginia

Once Martha in Seattle has lost her sanity --her words, not mine :-) - -and/or access to the Great Register Index, you can get a copy of this work for yourself. The East Bay Genealogical Society has published the index to the 1890 Great Register for Alameda County and its for sale ($24.95). If you have a lot of roots in turn of the century Alameda County you might be interested. You can get info by going to the EBGS site: http://www.katpher.com/EBGS/EBGS.html and from there clicking on "Publications" Obviously, this is not something you would want to buy for that stray ancestor who once waltzed through Alameda County, but for those with LOTS of roots in turn-of-the-century Alameda County, it's nice to have. --Laurel

Does anyone know if the above captioned group still exists? I found a receipt/certificate from this group where my ggmother purchased services, presumably for her husband. And my dad doesn't remember where these grandparents were buried (the others are at Mountain View). Chris

Martha - You are wonderful to volunteer. I'm looking for: Abner DOBLE Michael Joseph DOYLE Francis FERRIER all of whom should be in Berkeley. Chris

Dear Listers, To quiet some confusion, the 1890 Alameda County Great Register is an official list of registered voters in the county of Alameda in 1890. Please note, women could not vote in 1890. Only MALE CITIZENS, naturalized or native-born, could vote. Also please note I can only reply to requests posted to the list. Thank you, Martha near Seattle

Dear Deborah, Women could not vote in 1890. >SHEA, Margaret >MULQUEENEY, Mary and MULQUEENEY, John Francis >DOLAN, Agnes pg 2 MULQUEENY, John; Age 43; Bplace Ireland; Residence Murray/Altamont; Registration date 9 Oct 1890; Naturalized Murray was largely rural at this time

Dear Sue, I am sorry, there is no listing for >William LUEDKE or LUDKE Martha near Seattle

Dear Barbara, > >BARNETT, Isaac and David Pg 294 BARNETT, David; Age 39; Bplace Poland; Residence Oakland 6th ward, 2nd precinct; Registration date 1 Aug 1890; Naturalized. pg 294 BARNETT, Isaac; Age 42 Bplace Poland; Res; Oakland 6th ward, 2nd precinct; Registration date 26 Sep 1890; Naturalized. Both of these are noted in the remarks column suggesting that the original application has additional information, sometimes the occupation or physical description or the actual address, or even the place where citizenship was attained. >SOLOMON, Ernst. no Ernst listed, only a Benjamin from NY Martha near Seattle

Dear DCL789@aol.com, >JAMES EDWIN LEWIS: no James or Edwin Lewis > >ANNIE ELIZABETH SCHUHMANN (Women could not vote in 1890) > >WILLIAM PAUL SCHUHMANN no Schumann, or Shuman > >All lived in Oakland. Than you. Sorry, Martha near Seattle

SHEA, Margaret MULQUEENEY, Mary and MULQUEENEY, John Francis DOLAN, Agnes Thank you! Deborah Johnson