>Hi all; >I have gotten several emails from people telling me that they could not access the website. That is because I goofed. The pre-1905 death records for Madera, Riverside, Butte County Book One, San Bernardino Book One can be seen at the following CORRECT website: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~cabf1905 > >Sorry for the confusion. >Donna >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McBride, Williams, Thrasher Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZW.2ADI/492.718 Message Board Post: John McBride was my gr-gr-great grandfather. I am at loss for any information about him beyond that he came from Ohio and was a travelling preacher after the Civil War. His Wife, Eliza, was my grandmother. Do you have any further onfo you would be willing to share with me?

I am new to this list and I have a very difficult problem to solve. I had a great great aunt that lived in Modesto. Her first name was Bendora but I don't know her married name. She was born most likely in the 1880's. Bendora had a sister Emilly Ellison who according to their mother's obit lived in England. Probably the girls were born in Scotland. I think to that the sisters were raised Catholic so I would assume Bendora remained so. Bendora and Emilly's mother was Rachalia C. either McCormick or Harrison born in Glasgow Scotland Aug 18, 1863. One was a maiden name and the other was a married name from Rachalia's first husband but I don't know which was which, yet. It was mentioned that her first husband might have been a physician. Rachalia married my great great grandfather Joseph Wagner in 1898. Joe had a son Francis Benjamin Wagner born 1879 supposedly in North Dakota. So Francis was a step brother to the girls. Rachalia I found in Dixon MT and then a mention of in Tonasket WA but nothing was mentioned to me where the girls were at this time. Francis aka Frank Wagner moved to Sacramento CA Where he and his wife Mabel Sarney Wagner (born in England) and their family lived. A very distant relative mentioned that Francis sister Bendora lived in Modesto. Any possibility of familiarity with such flimsy information. I would assume that if she lived her life in Modesto she could have lived to the 1940's/60's. Thanks for any help or tips. I am relatively novice at this adventure but I found that any hearsay has some truth to it most of the time. Hope to hear from someone Chris Fox foxhunt@gte.net

I'm looking for information on George Chester GRAHAM born, 7 August 1876, in Avoca, Luzerne Co, PA. He left for California, about 1900, married wife unknown and had 2 sons. He possibley divorced his wife and returned to Pennsylvania about 1912. He then married Regina DOMMERMUTH on 13 December 1913. He died 23 December 1926, in Avoca, Luzerne Co, PA. I am most interested in his first wife and 2 sons. Howard Howard E. Lane 300 7th St, Apt 306 Moosic, PA 18507-1830 e-mail: lanehowa@ptd.net (570)-457-1178 To go to my Web Pages for BRADBURY, DALZIELL, DOMMERMUTH, GRAHAM, LAIRD, LANE, WATSON, WEIR, WIDDALL, WILLIAMS and Von BERGEN. Go to http://www.ultimatefamilytree.com Under Family Web Page, click on View Pages. Click on the first letter of the family name that you want to view.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Turpin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZW.2ADI/2044.1 Message Board Post: >From Citizens Cemetery, Oakdale California E-mail me privately at queeny@iname.com if you want photos of headstones. Wendy Turpin Mary Sep 1,1858 Feb 8,1893 BK 55 Lot 4 GR 1 w/o Samuel Turpin, b. OH, owner S. Turpin Turpin Minnie Pauline Apr 2,1870 Feb 02,1923 BK 55 Lot 4 GR 4 52y, Neighbor of Woodcraft Courage Hope Remembrance,owner S. Turpin, w/o Samuel, m/o Minnie W. Turpin Minnie W. Oct 22,1899 May 01,1900 BK 55 Lot 4 GR 2 4m,6d, daughter of Samuel & Minnie, owner S. Turpin Turpin Samuel 1846 Feb 19,1916 BK 55 Lot 4 GR 3 b. PA, 69 y, CW Vet, 14 Pa Cav, owner S. Turpin

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burkhart; Barry; Trochelman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZW.2ADI/587.696.1 Message Board Post: I am searching for info on Charles Burkhart b. abt.1856/7 and marries Ellen Barry in Austin (Chicago) cook Co. Ill. in 1877. they remained in Austin the rest of their lives. In the 1880 census it says both of Charles parents from Prussia, do you think there could be any connection?

>>Hi all; >>Things have been really going rapidly with the project. It is hard to believe that we have only been working on the majority of the project since the first of the year. I am so impressed with all the volunteers and donors for this project. They have been wonderful. >> >>We currently have Riverside and Madera counties online. We will momentarily have Book one of Butte County, Book one of San Bernardino County and all of San Diego County online. That will all occur this week. Steve has put contrasting colors on the county names that are online so they are easier to find. Just click on the county name and it will come up. The information is listed in the same order as in the death registers that we transcribe from. >> >>Several people have asked about what some of the status notes in the center column of the first page mean. Thought I would explain. >> >>Transcription Phase means we are currently transcribing those counties. We currently have more than 60 transcribers working on the project, so there are several counties in the process. I still have to admit that there are more working in Los Angeles County than any other because there are so many records for that county. We are anxious to get this online since so few online projects are available for the Los Angeles area. >> >>Records Available - Pending Funding means just that. We have received notification that we can get the records, but we need to acquire the funds to copy them. This is our largest expense for the project. >> >>Pending Funding alone means that we have ordered the files on a promise of funding from a person or organization and some we are hoping for funding before the records get here. These are ordered and in the process of being copied for us but we desperately need monies to cover these expenses. This is especially true of the San Francisco records as it is even larger than the Los Angeles County records. We need donations to help us get these copied. >> >>Pending Info on Availability means that we have not yet received word if we can get the records. You will notice there are fewer and fewer of these as you go to the website. Now we just need the funding to get copies once they are available. >> >>What we do when we are ready for a county, we order the files, then make a copy of what is sent. This way we have two copies. One set to distribute and the master copy. This saves us from having to re-order files when the post office loses a batch. We can just copy from our masters. They have managed to lose two batches so far out of the 80+ batches that we have sent out to transcriptionists. When we get the batches back from the transcriptionists, they are then set aside until a full Book or county is complete. They are then processed to go online. We currently have the following counties distributed and in transcription. If there are only one or two trancribers, we have listed their name here as well: >> >> San Bernardino Book Two >> Los Angeles Book One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six >> Marin Book One and Two Betty Vickroy >> Colusa Book One and Two Sue Wood and Justina Cook >> Humboldt Book One and Two >> Butte Book Two Chuck and Carol Stewart >> >>Other counties in the transcription phase are: >> >> Mendocino Phil Carnahan >> San Luis Obispo Barbara Erden >> Placer Jacqui Marcela >> Klamath Laura Melton >> Mariposa Steven Miller >> City of Oakland George Rushton >> San Benito Dee Sardoch >> Siskiyou Laura Melton >> >>We also have other counties where digital photos of the records are being taken to transcribe from. This saves us in the expense category and is greatly appreciated of the people doing this huge project. >> >>Several people have asked to transcribe designated counties only. Although this can be arranged, this is difficult on us. We do the best we can. Some of our transcibers are actually going to the recorder's offices and transcribing from the original records on their laptops. These people need extra praise for not only transcribing, but for taking the time to drive there and to be limited by the hours of the government offices. >> >>DONATIONS: Desperately needed. We pay about .35 per page of about 40 names for the indexes. Some records cost a little more. When we are dealing with a county like Los Angeles with over 40,000 names, you can see the cost factor go up. Now we would like to get San Francisco started and that is even more. How much more, we do not know yet, but that was a heavily populated area during the mid 1800s to 1905. For this reason, we need all the help we can get. We have some people that are sponsoring whole counties and we have others sending small checks to help. All is appreciated. ALSO, postage to get the files to the transcribers is greatly appreciated. Each packet that we send out to be transcribed averages about $1.25 in postage. We have sent out over 80 at this point. That is a lot of postage. We need your help, no matter how much. Please send donations to me. It will be greatly appreciated. >> >>One other item that we are going to throw out for discussion. We have thought about taking the completed records and placing the information on CD and selling those CDs to help finance the project. We have not determined price or availability at this point, but would like to know if something like this would be of interest to those of you out there doing research. The same info would be online, but some people would like these to donate to genealogical societies, libraries etc. Funds would cover costs and add to the project income to finance future counties. Don't forget that when we are finished with the deaths, we are hoping to go to marriage and birth records. Your opinion on this is greatly appreciated. >> >>I would like to take a couple lines to thank Steve Melton for his undying help in getting this project online. He had his hard drive go down and need replaced as well as some other minor computer problems in the middle of setting up and uploading the webpage. We could not do it without him and you are GREATLY appreciated. Laura, who has been serving his meals in front of the computer deserves a vote of thanks on this as well. She is also my assistant coordinator with Steve and keeps us technically on our toes and running. >> >>A special thanks to Ken Doig who donated the previously transcribed Madera County death records to the site. Ken is the moderator for the Madera County USGenWeb Project. >> >>For those of you who have missed previous updates, this is the pre-1905 records of deaths that are currently being put on line at: >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~cabf1905 >> >>Thanks for all your help and support. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or suggestions regarding the site, info, or helping. Till next week..... >> >>Donna Bradley >>Pre-1905 Project Coordinator >>P. O. Box 391368 >>Anza, CA 92539-1368 >> >>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZW.2ADI/2022.2 Message Board Post: HEY SARA THIS IS PATRICIA ANN QUALLS MY MOTHER IS IMA NELL SNEED QUALLS AND FATHER NAME IS ARLESS QUALLS. I WAS BORN ON OCTOBER 1,1960 IN STANASHLIA CALIF I HOPE YOU GET THIS U CAN EMAIL ME AT THIS EMAIL IS kpatty33@aol.com I HOPE WE CAN GET TOGETHER AND CHAT WITH EACHOTHER

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Vail, Russell Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZW.2ADI/2049 Message Board Post: >From the Modesto Herald, Modesto, CA, June 21, 1917: J. A. Vail, a veteran of the Civil War, died yesterday afternoon at the home of his son, F. C. Vail, on the Dry Creek road. Mr. Vail was 84 years of age and had resided in this county for the past seven years. He was a native of Canada. Deceased is survived by J. R. Vail and John Vail, sons, of Modesto, and Mrs. J. A. Russell, a daughter, Modesto. There are several other children in the east.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bishop Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZW.2ADI/2048 Message Board Post: >From the Modesto Herald, Modesto, CA, March 24, 1916: Modesto lost another veteran of the Civil War on the 19th inst., in the death of William B. Bishop. He was not a member of the GAR but fought in the Civil War in Company G, Eighteenth Regiment, US Colored Infantry.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Tregea Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZW.2ADI/2047 Message Board Post: >From the Modesto Herald, Modesto, CA, March 24, 1916: Leonard Tregea, aged 81. Born in Pennsylvania. Enlisted April 19, 1861. Honorably discharged as first lieutenant of Company G, 35th Wisconsin Infantry., May 19, 1866. Died March 20, 1916.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gunter Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZW.2ADI/2046 Message Board Post: >From the Modesto Herald, Modesto, CA, March 24, 1916: H. H. Gunter, aged 70. Born in Indiana. Enlisted July 6, 1862, as a private in Company B, 27th Missouri Infantry. Discharged August 9, 1865. Died March 9, 1916.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hart Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZW.2ADI/2045 Message Board Post: >From the Modesto Herald, Modesto, CA, March 24, 1916: Hubbard Hart, aged 74. Born in New York. Enlisted April 19, 1861, as private in Company A, Third Wisconsin Infantry. Discharged at close of war. Died March 3, 1916.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Turpin Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZW.2ADI/2044 Message Board Post: >From the Modesto Herald, Modesto, CA, March 24, 1916: Samuel Turpin, aged 70. Born in Pennsylvania. Enlisted January 28, 1864, as a private in Company A, Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry. Discharged at close of war and died at Oakdale February 28, 1916.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZW.2ADI/2043 Message Board Post: All siblings of Ed Kellogg, please contact me.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZW.2ADI/2042 Message Board Post: Would Liz who inquired about information on the Harray family please e-mail me? The message I sent was returned and I do have some information for her. Judy Ewbank

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZW.2ADI/2035.1.1.1 Message Board Post: There was not a Lang family on Carver Road, but there was one on Chrysler Dr. which is not far from there. The mother's name was Betty. Children's names are not listed in the City Directory. Locating this family with the available information would be very difficult, unless someone on the list had worked with the mother. Sorry I couldn't help. Judy

Hello Tom Just read your query on the CASTANIS list. Please give me the names (and possible dates) of your great+ grandfather and his brothers and I will search the information for you. I have seen reference to a Fisher Stage Line but it was not a major company in early Oakdale. The information is quite complete about the early persons who built the railroad from Stockton to Oakdale so I can check out your ancestors. I do recall some early residents named Fischer but that is a different spelling. It may be a week before I have the information for you as I am deeply involved in a district meeting being hosted in Oakdale on Tuesday. Are you the Thomas Hilk that I see listed on the Mariposa list? I am a native of Merced and my ancestors (John & Eliza Phillips) came to Mariposa in 1850. Also have ancestors (Hosea & Louisa Jolley) who came to Snelling in 1860 and eventually moved to Merced City where my grandmother (Lulu T. Jolley Peterson) was born. She lived her whole life in Merced. Have a great day. Glenn Burghardt Oakdale, Ca www.oakdalehistory.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: smith Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZW.2ADI/2041 Message Board Post: Looking for info on James Smith and family; m.to PollyAnn Bailey,sons John E.,Harry H., Arthur, LeRoy; dau. Eunice and Myrtle. I'm the grandson of LeRoy.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Spiney/Spivey, Crosthwaite Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZW.2ADI/2040 Message Board Post: I am seeking a copy of an obit for Herbert Everett Spiney or Spivey, who's mother's maiden name was Crosthwaite. According to information received via email, he was either born 10-14-1933 or died on that date. I checked the CA Death Index but didn't find him. If anyone could copy the record, I would greatly appreciate it.