Hilarious story! Some of us are quick, and some of us are not! Marg ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Coppin" <coppin@comcast.net> To: <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 12:50 PM Subject: Re: [CORNISH-GEN] California - early records > Although most of the city hall was destroyed, the city hall dome remained, > which housed the Hall of Records and did contain many valuable records, > particularly title and other legal documents which were saved, but many > other records were destroyed, including birth certificates. The follow is > taken from Historynet.com: "Ironically, the disaster had an unexpected > silver lining for the Chinese. The earthquake and fire completely > destroyed > city records, including birth certificates. The only way a Chinese person > could be a citizen was to be born in the United States, so hundreds came > forward after the quake to get new documentation, claiming their birth > certificates had been consumed by the flames. Many were successful, though > eventually the authorities caught on. If every citizenship claim had been > true, each Chinese woman living in San Francisco's Chinatown would have > had > to have given birth to 500 children!" > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rowena Gough" <rfgough@optusnet.com.au> > To: <CORNISH-GEN@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 5:56 PM > Subject: [CORNISH-GEN] California - early records > > >> I'm now wondering about the San Francisco earthquake and fires in 1906. >> Were >> the early records of San Francisco pre-1906 destroyed in the fires? Did >> those records cover an area larger than the city itself? >> Cheers, >> Rowena > > > ------------------------------- > Listmom: ybowers@gmail.com or CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com > > Visit the OPC (Online Parish Clerk) web page for transcription information > http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CORNISH-GEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message