Researching my family has lead me to Placerville, El Dorado County; actually Camino for quite a few. The family came from Iowa to Kansas to California. Starting in Wheatland, Yuba Co., in 1880, to Napa Co., then El Dorado Co. sometime before 1899. Some of the relatives left El Dorado Co. before 1910 for Napa Co. again while others remained in Camino and Placerville for many years. I may still have relatives in that area. Joseph Carson Power and Rebecca Mary McDonald Power left Iowa sometime after 1872, they were in Kansas in 1879 and California by the 1880 census. Joseph And Rebecca Power's Children: John William b. 1855 Iowa Minerva b. 1857 Iowa Mary Jane b. 1859 Iowa Andrew Hayden b. 1862 Iowa David Edwin b. 1864 Iowa Charles Ellison b. 1869 Iowa Newton Theodore b. 1870 Iowa Robert Henry b. 1872 Iowa Joseph Allen b. 1879 Kansas Joseph and Rebecca are first found in the Placerville, El Dorado census in 1900 with their youngest son Joseph Allen Power and his wife Grace Douglass Power (married El Dorado Co., 4 NOV 1899) Napolean Bonaparte Douglass (General B. Douglass) and his second wife Casandra June Giles Douglass are also in Placerville in the 1900 census with their children: (Grace b. 1878 Texas not living with them) Harry b. 1885 Texas Bailey b. 1886 Texas Olivet b. 1888 WA William N. b. 1894 CA They also had older children Ora and Alferd. It is my belief that Joseph and Grace Power met, were married and had their children in the Placerville area. Children of Joseph and Grace Power: Everett b. 7 MAR 1903 Rowena b. 26 FEB 1906 Guinevieve (Guinevere) b. 15 JUL 1907 Lorin Weston Power b. abt 1909 (late 1909 or early 1910) Lorin was my grandfather, I do not know his birthdate and I believe the records of these four births were lost in the fire in 1910 in El Dorado County. The only way I can possibly find these births is to check on Mountain Democrats for those years. John William Power and his wife (Martha) Luella Waters Power made their home in Placerville for many years. Children: Norman, Warren and Alta (Alita) Power. Minerva Power married Alonzo Simpson in Iowa, they also were in Yuba Co. in 1880; in Yolo Co., in 1900 they are in Yolo County. by 1920 they have also found their way to El Dorado County. Their children Daisy Simpson b. 1879 Iowa and Lillian Simpson b. 1880 Kansas. Daisy married Henry Morgan Davey I believe in El Dorado Co., and Lillian married Joel Benjamin Wood also in El Dorado Co. I visited the El Dorado History Museum in Placerville last weekend and found many interesting things. Unfortunately it is a ways for me to travel and I could not find all that I wanted in one day. I would be interested in finding other family members researching this family and also interested in any researches in that area that might be able to take my search further. Look forward to your response, Katrina Sonoma, CA