RootsWeb’s Guide to Tracing Family Trees (http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/) currently has 9 lessons available. They deal with different subjects, including: -- Getting started -- Death records -- Marriage records -- Birth records -- Effective queries -- Spelling (or perhaps misspelling is better) Each of the lessons is just a couple of pages long, however, and in addition to the subject itself, they include: -- Links to useful sites on RootsWeb -- Links to useful sites on the Internet -- A list of useful books on the subject

My previous message on the 1906 SF earthquake album had the wrong url. I misspelled NobHill using a capital I, NobHIll. This is the correct one. http://www.americahurrah.com/1906NobHill.html Bill ps Thanks to Clayton (CbShaf@aol.com) for bringing this to my attention.

These pages are from the NEW SAN FRANCISCO MAGAZINE of May, 1906. Very unusual photographs and text, including Gen. Funston on shooting looters and Stanford President Jordan on the future of San Francisco. The magazine had high ideals on the future of San Francisco, but didn't last very long. Bill http://www.americahurrah.com/1906NobHIll.html

Eleven charming photos of San Francisco at the turn of the century one hundred years ago. Just placed on America Hurrah. Bill http://www.americahurrah.com/albGGate.html

For those interested in the what's happening at rootsweb.com and other news that's genealogy related, you can subscribe easily to the following newsletters, MISSING LINKS AND ROOTSWEB REVIEW by following the directions at the bottom of this message. I've been sharing what I thought was of interest from these two newsletters. I was asked to consolidate my messages by someone (too many duplicate posts) on more than one of the county lists. But, since I've only shared a small amount of info from these newsletters, and I don't know what is really of interest to everyone, I'd like to suggest that if you found the postings useful and would like to read more, please subscribe yourself to the weekly mailing. Here's how: TO SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE from MISSING LINKS and ROOTSWEB REVIEW, send e-mail that says only SUBSCRIBE (or UNSUBSCRIBE) in the message area to: <Rootsweb-Review-L-request@rootsweb.com>

The SCHADECK/SHADECK family came to the U.S. in the 1880's. As far as I know there were five or more of them. John SCHADECK - settled near Salinas, Calif. Peter SCHADECK - settled in Indiana and then Chicago, Ill. Matthew SCHADECK/SHADECK - Settled in Karthaus, Pennsylvania Susanna (married GEISEN) - Settled in Chicago Kate (married FRANK) Settled in Chicago And more siblings........... If anyone has any SCHADECK/SHADECK's or SIMON's in their family or anyone married to them, please let me know. Also, does anyone know of a Simonville, California off Highway #1 in your county??? Louise S. Novello Mayonov@aol.com

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This history channel program has definite genealogical implications, such as with Thomas Jefferson. It shows as only be shown once at 8:00pm eastern time and 5:00pm western, but it may be shown again four hours later, but not sure of that. Tuesday -- 08/03/1999 8:00/5:00 Buried Secrets: Digging For DNA. A revealing probe into how advances in DNA technology and forensic science are solving some of history's great mysteries. Stories unearthed include: the identity of the Vietnam War Unknown Soldier; how Napoleon died; the corpse of Jesse James; Thomas Jefferson's white and black descendants; the Dr. Sam Sheppard murder case. [TV PG] Hope it proves interesting. Larry Kuttner

Don't know if this has been posted or not, but the url goes to a database of high school and college grads all over the world. Have not explored it yet to test value. http://www.alumni.net/ ps A disappointment. No mention of SF's High School of Commerce. (long gone, but not forgotten, the class of Fall, 1939. We got out at the beginning of WWII.) Anyone else from Commerce? Bill

I am trying to locate info on family of George Wilson FREEMAN, born 29 January 1886, place unknown and died 31 October 1940, Monterey County, CA. He married Louise Hutton (b. ca 1897) in 1912. They had one daughter, Barbara Amanda Freeman, born 3 May 1913. I would really like information on the daughter as she may still be living. Thanks in advance for any help! Jeannie Freeman Barker

Researching the following persons: William J FRITTER died: Oct 15, 1953 Frances A FRITTER died: Sep 24, 1932 Both reportedly died in Monterey Co exact town unknown Can anyone help me with any additional information on who these people were. Regards

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------C7DCE3DDED3B85D875CA666B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This message is being forwarded for "pcastro" <pcastro@webzone.net>. Replies should be to the originator or this list. Sincerely, listowner -- --------------C7DCE3DDED3B85D875CA666B Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.27]) by toucan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA06789 for <w6uyf@earthlink.net>; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 05:57:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id FAA17813 for owner-CAMONTER@lists2.rootsweb.com; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 05:57:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 05:57:48 -0700 (PDT) X-From_: pcastro@webzone.net Tue Jul 20 05:57:47 1999 Received: from bl-3.rootsweb.com (bl-3.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.19]) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA17795 for <CAMONTER-L@lists2.rootsweb.com>; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 05:57:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yoda.webzone.net (mta@smtp.webzone.net [205.219.23.27]) by bl-3.rootsweb.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id FAA20094; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 05:57:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pcastro ([208.137.185.199]) by yoda.webzone.net (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO203-101c) ID# 0-0U10L2S100) with SMTP id AAA23960; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 07:54:24 -0500 Message-ID: <001601bed2af$86c4b260$c7b989d0@pcastro> From: "pcastro" <pcastro@webzone.net> To: <CAMONTER-L@rootsweb.com> Cc: <SOCAL-L@rootsweb.com> Old-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 07:58:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Diagnostic: Not on the accept list Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: names, places, dates of research X-Envelope-To: CAMONTER-L X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 ALVISO, Carmellita, 1850-1920, Monterrey Co. Calif. " , Rosa, 1850-1920, " " " BAKER, Charles G., 1940-19?, San Francisco Calif. BELENO, Vincent, late 1800's-1970, San Francisco, Calif. " , Mary, 1888-?, " " " BELCHER, Amanda, 1860-?, Daviess Co. Missouri CASTRO, John or Juan, 1870-?, Monterrey Co. Calif. " , Carmen, " " " " " , Alfred Gregory, 1893-1915 " " " " " " 1915-1980 State of Arizona MERRIFIELD, Amanda, 1859-?, Daviess Co. Missouri " , Dr. Joseph W., 1836-1855, McLean Co. Illinois " " " " , 1855-1901, Daviess Co. Missouri " , Missouri Victoria {Lucretia or Cretia} 1865-1900, Daviess Co Missouri " " " , 1901-1938, Stephens Co. Missouri PRICE, Amanda, 1840-?, Kentucky {ukn Loc} " " 1850-1860, Daviess Co. Missouri " " 1860-? Missouri and Okla. " Lindsey, 1840-? Kentucky {ukn loc} " " , 1850-1850 Daviess Co. Missouri and possibly Ark. " James Allen, 1862-1900, Daviess Co. Missouri " " " , 1900-1920, Tulsa Co. Okla. {Sand Springs} PRICE Joseph Lindsey, 1864-1900, Daviess Co. Missouri " " " , 1900-1914, Montergomery Co. Kansas --------------C7DCE3DDED3B85D875CA666B--

The Library of Congress has digitized hundreds of their maps and made them available for researchers online. The Railroad Maps Collection covers the years 1828 to 1900 and is a part of the American Memory online section of the Library of Congress. You can search and view these digitized maps by visiting their web site at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html Remember that learning what railroads were available as your ancestors were migrating to the west may help you determine how they got there and where they may have stopped. FAMILY TREE FINDERS Rhonda R. McClure Monday - 26 July 1999

VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT. The USGenWeb Archives Pensions Project is looking for volunteer transcribers and coordinators <http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pensions/>. If you have copies of your ancestors' pension applications, please consider transcribing and submitting them to the USGenWeb Archives for inclusion in the Pensions Project.

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------3645E6BF18FC37C31520F4CB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Forwarded for "debelling" <debelling@email.msn.com> --------------3645E6BF18FC37C31520F4CB Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.27]) by sparrow.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA04626 for <w6uyf@earthlink.net>; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 14:15:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA15391 for owner-CAMONTER@lists2.rootsweb.com; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 14:15:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 14:15:20 -0700 (PDT) X-From_: debelling@email.msn.com Sat Jul 3 14:15:18 1999 Received: from bl-3.rootsweb.com (bl-3.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.19]) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA15303 for <CAMONTER-L@bl-11.rootsweb.com>; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 14:15:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.email.msn.com (cpimssmtpu02.email.msn.com [207.46.181.18]) by bl-3.rootsweb.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA27035 for <camonter-l@rootsweb.com>; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 14:15:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debelling - 208.255.161.183 by email.msn.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 14:14:50 -0700 From: "debelling" <debelling@email.msn.com> To: <camonter-l@rootsweb.com> Old-Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 14:13:00 -0700 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Message-ID: <01eba5014210379CPIMSSMTPU02@email.msn.com> X-Diagnostic: Not on the accept list Subject: {not a subscriber} Tucker, Reed, Compton X-Envelope-To: CAMONTER-L X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 I have info on these names in Mont. in the period 1860-1900 will share. Paul debelling@msn.com --------------3645E6BF18FC37C31520F4CB--

--part1_af27b0d.24be6071_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_af27b0d.24be6071_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <w6uyf@earthlink.net> Received: from aol.com (rly-yc02.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.34]) by air-yc05.mail.aol.com (v60.14) with ESMTP; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:03:55 2000 Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by rly-yc02.mx.aol.com (vx) with SMTP; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:03:50 -0400 Received: from earthlink.net (pool0732.cvx10-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.178.184.222]) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA10921 for <LMChewy777@aol.com>; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:03:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <378CF7E1.FE7D9A98@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 13:49:38 -0700 From: "Edward A. Black, Sr. [& Ruth M. Black]" <w6uyf@earthlink.net> Organization: Lancaster, California X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en,es,en-US,nl,it,ga,de-DE MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LMChewy777@aol.com Subject: Re: Jerry and George Alvarez References: <a3dc3096.24bc3c45@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Your query did NOT go to the list. You need to send it to "camonter-l@rootsweb.com". The address that you used, ["camonter-d-request@rootsweb.com"], is only used for subscribing to or unsubscribing from the list. When you re-send your query to the correct address, it should go to the list where others can see it and reply to it. Good luck with your search Sincerily, listowner LMChewy777@aol.com wrote: > Hi, I am looking for two old friends that lived in Monterey Ca in the 80's. > They had shop in Seaside, Ca called Custom Upholstery by Solano on 1272 > Fremont Boulevard Seaside, Ca 93955. The owners were Jerry and George > Alvarez. Do you known where they are now? Aloha, Louie -- --part1_af27b0d.24be6071_boundary--

The last time I posted a message concerning the Gen Connect boards it was brought to my attention that not all counties were covered which I wasn't aware of. If you check back now I think you'll find that all counties are now listed - check out the index at this address http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/indx/Ca.html and start sharing your CA data or post a query to the query board Colleen