Hi, I know how my grandparents got from Wisconsin to California in 1885. My grandfather wrote a book that he gave to family members. It was mostly story types of things. It told about taking a train from Wisconsin to where they caught the Immigrant Train. I even know the exact date when they started. When they waited in the terminal to transfer to the Immigrant Train they watched the election results of that day being projected by means of a Magic Lantern on a building that was across the street. After reaching San Francisco they took a ship down the coast to San Luis Obispo. They were met there by a relative with a horse drawn wagon. Trains were everywhere in the later 1800s. You might want to consider that. I wish that I knew how the earlier ones traveled. My ancestors were the ones who kept moving South and West almost immediately. Velma

That's probably how my grandfather got from Galveston to Alameda some time after 1895. Wish I had thought to ask him before 1960. He was a stoic old Englishman but that might have loosened him up a bit to talk about his travels. When I was a little boy (5 or less) my mother put me on a train to visit an aunt. I remember a note pinned on my shirt. That was in the '40s. Gale Gorman Houston On Apr 14, 2012, at 11:04 PM, vjspringer@aol.com wrote: Hi, I know how my grandparents got from Wisconsin to California in 1885. My grandfather wrote a book that he gave to family members. It was mostly story types of things. It told about taking a train from Wisconsin to where they caught the Immigrant Train. I even know the exact date when they started. When they waited in the terminal to transfer to the Immigrant Train they watched the election results of that day being projected by means of a Magic Lantern on a building that was across the street. After reaching San Francisco they took a ship down the coast to San Luis Obispo. They were met there by a relative with a horse drawn wagon. Trains were everywhere in the later 1800s. You might want to consider that. I wish that I knew how the earlier ones traveled. My ancestors were the ones who kept moving South and West almost immediately. Velma ===== If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -----------snip---------- Gale Gorman Houston