Ginny: I don't have any direct information, but you might try two sources: 1) Contact the Oakland History Room at the Oakland Public Library (main branch) 2) Try a MELVYL search--both the State Library (including Sutro) and Bancroft Library holdings would be included --Laurel At 7:57 AM -0700 5/13/99, Ginny S wrote: >Hi, folks-- >Just wondering if anyone knows if old Oakland and/or Berkeley Chamber of >Commerce meeting minutes and similar records are archived somewhere. I'm >looking for records for the period 1905 to 1930 or so, especially 1916-1922. > Also searching for an interlibrary loan site for borrowing microfilm >copies of the Lakeside Baptist Church records. I know there's a copy at the >Swenson Swedish Research Center in Illinois. but they don't circulate. The >third item I am looking for is original records of business incorporations >in Oakland and SF for the period 1905 to 1920. >I am researching the Sommarstrom Brothers Construction Co., which operated >from about 1906 to 1917 and 1920 (?) to the early 1930s or so. In 1917, two >of the brothers, along with considerable outside backing, started the >Sommarstrom Shipbuilding Co. It was apparently originally incorporated in >California before a location for the shipyard was selected in Columbia City, >Oregon. >Any assistance in locating any of these records would be most appreciated. >Ginny in Seattle > > >_______________________________________________________________ >Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ============= "The United States will collapse by 1980" --Timothy Leary, 1965 In retrospect, I think he was right!