It's amazing to me how these people traveled around. I go back east on a business trip and I'm exhausted - flying. --pam -----Original Message----- From: Jackie [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 5:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [CAAMADOR-L] Amador Dispatch on Amador website Hi fellow listers..(posting this to NORCAL too, so they can be watching the Amador County website). Steve had wrote & said, as he had a family & worked, etc., his input would be somewhat slow as to working on the newspaper project. . Well I'm retired so I have the advantage there but am on disability so that hampers me. And the reading of the film, writing it down in a notebook & then inputting that data into the computer is tedious, back & arm breaking. But, I am not complaining just stating a fact. My thoughts are: if I just happened on the Amador webpage looking for my ancestors that went west looking for gold or better lands or whatever reason, & found some of the information that will be posted there, I get goosebumps. The thrill to find where grandfather whoever had the best tomatoes in town or great-aunt whoever had 15 children & find all their names listed. Some of these articles are bare mininum but others are a wealth of information, what a treat there will be for some descendant. Art is providing a fantastic medium for us to share our history & the history of our Amador County pioneers. And, of course it took Steve to motivate us. Below are two articles that I would hope someday to find something similiar written up on my ancestors. August 4 1899 (In this one her name is listed as Caroline Gibbert, in the next it's Christina Gibbert, so that's the way it will be input) This one says she died at home 6 miles west of Jackson on the Ione Road of Bright's Disease. Left 2 sons & her husband died 4 years ago. August 18, 1899 This one gives her place of birth as Busum Germany August 13 1832. Left Germany April 29 1851 on a sailing vessel with two brothers & one sister, arriving in New York July 16 1851. She was a dressmaker in NY for 3 years. Got married there April 1854. July 1855 sold out her business & she & Mr. Gibbert sailed for California arriving in San Francisco September 5 1855. They arrived in Jackson, Amador County, September 1855 where they were in the hotel business until January 1858. They then moved to Sutter Creek where Mr. G. ran a saloon. Mr. G. died May 20 1895. Mrs. G.'s maiden name was Christina M. Brand. Leaves 2 sons, William & Charles. There are discrepancies as to the name, these obituaries are the words of ordinary people so there can be mistakes but there's a whole bunch of clues there for someone to track down. They came by ship & not wagon train, tells what trade they were in, what year they both died. It's more than just knowing your ancestor came to Amador County period. So hang in there & the Amador website will be bulging with tidbits. Jackie in Jackson