Hi Nancy, Follow these links to the last one - it might shed some light on the goings on at the SF Barbary coast (where the shanghaiing went on...). For anything San Francisco... start at this CA GenWeb site http://www.sfo.com/~timandpamwolf/sfrancty.htm From menu on left select History of San Francisco http://www.sfo.com/~timandpamwolf/sfhist.htm From this site select books/Barbary Coast http://www.zpub.com/sf50/sf/ From here, scroll down to "God help the poor sailor - Chapter 9 http://www.zpub.com/sf50/sf/hbtbcidx.htm I have a copy of the book that this article came from "THE BARBARY COAST", by Herbert Asbury, pub 1933 - it has an index but I don't find your Eppa T. Bartlett. I really think this index would NOT list every poor soul that was shanghaied - but rather others involved in this "business"... Sure hope you stop to visit some of the other spots along the path I just gave you - LOTS of good stuff there! Hope this helps, RUTH _________________________________ Ruth(Grady)Skewis-Sacramento, CA ruth4527@mindspring.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Loder Family [mailto:loderfam@mchsi.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 4:50 PM > To: CASANFRA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [CASANFRA] San Francisco 1907 Disappearance > > > Family lore says our great grandfather (Eppa T. Bartlett) was > "shanghaid" in San Francisco in 1907 and probably put on a ship > to work as a seaman. He was 20 years old at that time. He left > behind a wife and a baby. According to family stories that was > quite common during that period of time. I have been trying to > research his disappearance but haven't really found any history > to substantiate this story other than he did seem to disappear > and I haven't found him in any records past 1907. Does anyone > have any ideas where I might be able to find out more information > regarding similar disappearances or any place that might actually > have records. > > Nancy >