Wonderful!! and a big THANK YOU! This will be a wonder source of information for many of us. Please let us have the URL where this can be found when you get any of it loaded to a web site. Thanks a great deal for the time you have spent on all of this transcribing - Gold star after you name in the big book! RUTH _________________________________ Ruth(Grady)Skewis-Sacramento, CA ruth4527@mindspring.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Edward A. Black, Sr. [mailto:w6uyf@earthlink.net] > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:29 AM > To: CASANFRA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [CASANFRA] Transcription of 1870 Federal census for San > Francisco County... > > > I just wanted to mark the start of my most ambitious task--the > Transcription of the 1870 Census for San Francisco to go online. I > believe it will be of much help to researchers since San Francisco was a > major port of entry on the west coast in the 19th century, especially > with the gold fields and with immigration. > > I have currently completed 25 pages out of 271 pages in the 1st Ward. > (out of 12 wards). I will periodically be letting all know as to the > progress I make in this large undertaking. > > Although not native to San Francisco, I was born and raised in Alameda > County across the bay and have been in San Francisco enough to be > familiar with much of it. > > I believe this challanging work will be appreciated by many researchers > as I progress. > > Sincerely, > Edward A. Black, Sr. [native of Oakland, CA] >