This is truly a gift of a site for all of us! Wow! I located a document on my Hamrick's that I had never seen before!!! This is the first breakthru in awhile for me and it is a great document. It gives the members of the local granges, and includes both my great grandfather and mother and at least 6 of their family members: Here are the members of that new organized Grange (someone know where the grange records themselves might be?) >From the following document I found a wonderful Grange Directory: "The Patrons of Husbandry of the Pacific Coast" Ezra S. Carr 1875 Jackson Vally Grange No 234 Ione City, Amador County Organized November 18, 1874, by Harding Vanderpool, Deputy Jesse D. Hamrick, Master <-----what does Master mean? They list wrong middle initial should be C. but its my ancestor -his wife and kids are listed below Lansing J. Dooley, Sec'y Wm. H. Prouty <-----future in-law Charles S. Black James W. Parkinson James W. Violette James P. Martin Francis A. McMurray <-----son in law of Jesse, husband of Cosumnes California Hamrick Henry Dillion <----son in law, husband of Lavina Robert K. James <---son in law, husband of Anna William C. Thompson James Ritchie Christoper C. Prouty Mrs. Nancy H. Prouty Mrs. Elizabeth Hamrick <----Jesse's wife Mrs. Lavina J. Dillion <-----dau Mrs. Sarah L. Black Mrs. Mary H. Prouty Mrs. CC MacMurray <-----dau Ars. Anna M. James <----------dau Mrs. Australia R. Prouty Christian Linegar end of this list Found at this site after searching for Hamrick: http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/index.html : >This is the 'MAKING OF AMERICA' or 'MOA' site created by the University of : >Michigan through a grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. If you haven't : >seen it, you are in for something very different from what we are all used : >to. The site is a virtual library of 4,058 19th century books and : >journals---but here is the amazing part.... each and every page of the : >4,058 books and journals has been scanned in its original state, so we see : >a graphic image of the original document!! :