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From: "Paula Hinkel" <>
Subject: Marie Northrop's Volume III to be Released May 13
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:33:39 -0700

On behalf of the Southern California Genealogical Society, we are very
pleased to announce that the long-awaited third volume of "Spanish-Mexican
Families of Early California" will be available beginning May 13, 2005.
Marie Northrop's meticulous and respected research of the earliest families
of California is presented in three volumes:

VOLUME I was developed from Thomas Workman Temple II's "Genealogical Tables
of Spanish and Mexican Families of California" (Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.) Most of the colonists came from northwest Mexico
between 1769 and 1781 and numbered between 600 and 700 persons. The
population increase to about 3,000 over the next 40 years resulted more from
a healthy birthrate than from immigration. The second edition of Volume I
was extensively revised and expanded, published in 1987 and reprinted in
1999.

VOLUME II lists 265 family groups outside of Temple's Genealogical Tables in
a format similar to Volume I. Included are the 11 founding families of the
Pueblo de Los Angeles and 46 of the soldiers and their families who
accompanied them on the overland expedition from Sonora and Sinaloa in
northern Mexico. Volume II was published in 1984 and reprinted in 1999.

VOLUME III focuses on the Pobladores of the Pueblo of Los Angeles. Covering
the initial 15 settlers and their decendants in 525 pages, the volume
extends far beyond 1850 with the genealogies of these early California
residents. Included are Antonio Cota (Soldado), Roque Cota (Soldado),
Vincente Feliz (Soldado), Jose Fernando (de Velasco) Lara, Francisco Lugo
(Soldado), Antonio Mesa, Jose Moreno, Jose Antonio Navarro, Luis Manuel
Quintero, Pablo Rodriguez, Jose Alejandro Rosas, Jose Antonio Basilio Rosas,
Jose Vanegas, and Antonio Clemente Feliz Villavicencio, with a genealogical
summary of their descendants.

The 3-volume set of Northrop books makes an excellent addition for the home
reference library, or for the shelves of your local public library,
genealogical or historical society. We will gladly process your instructions
for donations or gifts to other individuals and organizations.

Copies can be obtained in several ways:

Purchase any or all of Marie Northrop's volumes at SCGS's annual
Genealogical Jamboree, held this year at the Burbank Airport Hilton and
Convention Center on May 13-14, 2005. If you want to stop by just to pick
up your Northrop volumes, you won't have to pay a registration fee (although
we hope you will want to attend the sessions and visit the exhibitors!).
Parking fees will be charged.

Order your book online using our secure shopping cart at our new
www.scgsgenealogy.com website. You can pay using credit card or by sending
a check or money order. Web orders can be picked up at Jamboree or will be
shipped beginning the week of May 16.

Purchase your volumes by phone (818-843-7247) or in person at the SCGS
Family Research Library, 410 Irving Street, Burbank, CA 91504-2408, during
normal business hours after Jamboree.

MondayClosed
TuesdayOpen 10am - 9pm
WednesdayOpen 10am - 4pm
ThursdayOpen 10am - 4pm
FridayOpen 10am - 4pm
SaturdayOpen 10am - 4pm on 3rd and 4th Saturdays of the month
SundayOpen 10am - 5pm on 1st and 2nd Sundays of the month

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