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/XY.2ADE/720.1 Message Board Post: Sally, You have asked a broad and difficult question. But I shall keep it in mind and as I find anything will let you know. While researching another project I ran across this - >From "Once a Coal Miner The Story of Colorado's Northern Coal Field" by Phyllis Smith,Pruett Publishing Company, Boulder, 1989 page 66 - "In the 1880s, four-fifths of the coal miners in Colorado spoke English. In the space of thirty years, the ratio of English-speaking to non-English-speaking miners gradually reversed. By 1910, 70 percent of Colorado's coal miners were foreign-born, spoke little English and had no previous experience in the mines. Now the state published its coal mining laws in Japanese, Italian, Polish, Hungarian, German, Croatian, Greek, Spanish, Bulgarian, and Russian, as well as English." Note that there isn't mention of Chinese or Swedish, etc. I know there was a large segment of Scandinavian miners in Louisville. But apparently Japanese represented a larger proportion, enough to warrent printing in their language. I'll keep you in mind, David