In a message dated 8/11/01 1:25:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, mc2cold@hotmail.com writes: > Two census records in Canada state that his parents were born in the U.S., > but I may have recently found him on the 1880 census in Bodie, CA, which > Are you aware that Bodie was a gold mining town? It became a ghost town and the state of California made it a state park! I actually visited there last month..very interesting and well preserved town of 12000. You can probably find some cool pictures online. Michele