This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4g.2ADE/1615.2 Message Board Post: My wife's g-g-g-grandfather, Charles Bradford Herren was part of that group and wrote about growing up in Persifer in the 1840s and in detail about the trip to California and their gold mining in 1850 and 1851 in his memoirs (which he wrote about 49 years later). I have transcribed his handwritten memoirs and printed a few copies (of which I don't have any left right now), and can send you a copy on CD if you send me your mailing address. (The pdf file is too big to email because of some pictures I included in it.)