Barbara You might try Deanna below as there are some McKelveys in Berrien Co., Benton Harbor or near New Buffalo. Ella First Census taken in this county was in 1830 when it was noted as the Niles township and much was still in the neighboring county of Cass. As of February, 2009 Deanna Branson West became the new Berrien County GenWeb Coordinator - email her at berrienmigenweb@yahoo.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara/Bill Pompei" <bandbpompei@comcast.net> To: <norcal@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 1:21 AM Subject: [NORCAL] McKelvey - Oakland & Santa Cruz Mtns. >I have a "guest book" that people signed when they visited a cottage in > Chemeketka park in the Santa Cruz Mtns. owned by Walter and Louise > McKelvey > and son Leo who lived on Fruitvale Avenue in Oakland in the 1930 census.. > > I have no connection to any of this. Someone found the book a yard sale > or > ?? and passed it on to me years ago where it sat because the ability to > track people hadn't developed as far as it has today. > > I read a lot of the "thank yous" in the book and figured out the McKelvey > family names and then did a census search and found them. > > I'd love to pass this along to some descendant. The census shows the > parents were originally from Canada.....born in the late 1800s. > > If you know where this needs to go I'd appreciate hearing from you and I'm > sure the family would too. > Barbara > Sacramento > > > > ----------------------------------------- > NORCAL ARCHIVES: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > Enter NORCAL. Browse by month. > Or click the "Search all archives" link to search by keyword. > ----------------------------------------- > To post a message to the NORCAL mailing list, send an email to > NORCAL@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORCAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message