Yes, some people actually LIVE in Colma! Linda Hamid -----Original Message----- From: Miriam Ward [mailto:mward_1947@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:37 PM To: CASANFRA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CASANFRA] New Update Hi Adrienne, I just sent an email that ,thinking about it again,I don't think is quite correct.Colma may have been there but I still don't think Daly City was.You might want to check other towns such as Montara and possibly Pacifica although,once again, I don't know if they were formed at that time. Is there anything in Colma besides cemetaries,tombstone companies and a great saloon across from Holy Cross? Miriam --- ADRIENNE STEFANIK <HATTULA1902@msn.com> wrote: > Hello everyone. I learned something new from my > professional researcher. It is part information > about SF. My great great grandparents probably > lived in Daly City or Colma area. Did earthquake > and fire destroy records in Daly City and Colma > area? I am looking for baptism and marriage records > for my great grandmother Jennie Chavah Silva > Escobar. Jennie was married with Antonio F. Escobar > early 1890 in SF. Jennie was born on March, 1870 or > 1871 in SF. Her sister Maria/Mary Chavel Silva was > born on June, 1866 or July, 1869 in SF. Their > parents are Antone Silva and Amelia(?). > I learned more about Anglicized Portuguese > surnames(www.dholmes.com/names.html) in California. > I should have added some more for Silva. > Silver-Silva > Silvey-Silva > Silvia-Silva > Sylva-Silva > Sylvia-Silva > Silveria-Silva(somtimes) > > There is another new information below from my > professional researcher. I really do appreciate her > help lately. > http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/hattula1902/lst?.dir=/&.view=l&.begin=9999 > See Mamie and her grandparents in Mamie's folder > Great photos. Here is my observation about the > picture with Jennie and Mamie. > 1. Plants showing - lilac and calla lily, > suggest area that was very temperate, but not too > hot. > 2. Clothing suggests era around 1915-25. People > were not too poor. > 3. Mamie looks about 25 to me > The background could be anywhere in the San > Francisco Bay Area. In fact, it looks much like > some old photos of mine from the era, taken in > Colma. Many parts of San Francisco have no hills > and are quite temperate in weather. One major > neighborhood, the Mission District, was quite warm, > level, and had many Spanish and Portuguese-speaking > people, as it does to this day. > > Have you considered the following concerning Chavah > - that it could be an odd spelling of Chava? This > name has appeared in the Southwest and West for > several generations. I found Juan and Jose Chava in > Caliente, Nevada in 1910. Ricardo Chava Lopez was > born in 1922 and his mother's maiden name was Chava. > It's just a thought.Get more from the Web. FREE > MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ ______________________________