This post was on NORCAL. Pendola were in Amador in the late 1800s. Does anyone on the Amador list recognize this family and have info that could help?"TheNiners" is not on this list, so please include in your resonses. Thanks. Carol Nash Message text written by INTERNET:NORCAL-L@rootsweb.com >X-Message: #20 Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 10:49:31 EST From: To: NORCAL-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <75.cf52cdf.275bc58b@aol.com> Subject: Great Grandma Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: Inline Whi is she really/ When my grandfather began a genealogy, he wrote that his mother was Mary Martha BARNUM. Father a "Yankee" and mother of Spanish descent. His mother was born CA. His mother's name BARNUM was written on my grandfather's christening records of which a copy was obtained by him in 1941 as he didn't have a birth certificate and needed to verify his age for draft purposes in WWII. On my grandfather's social security application he has written "mother's maiden name PENDOLA" He had written something else but had erased it. This last name was verified from his brother's application. Came across an abstract of his parents marriage application. Carlos de GANNA and Mary Martha SOLIS. THe license was issued in Pine Grove, Esmeralda, NV. And her sister Francis PENDOLA also married the next year in Pine Grove. On a death notice, it is listed that in 1889, Carlos de GANA and Mary Martha BARNUM had a stillborn child. On obit for Mary Martha's mother, Feliciana PENDOLA, in 1891, it says she mother of Mrs A. Woods(Francis) and Mrs C. de Ganna(Mary Martha). I haven't found a marriage record for their mother yet a Feliciana SOLICE married a Bennet PENDOLA 27 Jan 1880 in SHeep Ranch, Calaveas,CA. The witnesses......Allen M. Woods and wife Francis. He wouldn't be father of the girls as they were born 1852/54. To add to the confusion, a Feliciana PENDOLA and dau Francis are living next door to the de GANNAs. Though I was pleased to find an abstract of Mary Martha's marriage to Carlos, it adds to the name confusion. Who is this lady? Any thoughts out there? ______________________________<