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From: "Susanna O'Donnell" <>
Subject: [CASANFRA-L] Interesting tip ....
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 14:37:18 -0700


Greetings from the fog in the north!

I recently began to correspond with what is an apparent distant cousin.
She is not in California and told me that she had found a record of her
great grandmothers birth in 1858 in San Francisco. She obtained the
record from Old Saint Mary's Church on California Street.

I was intrigued by this being I was pretty much told to forget the
Church records because of the damage from the quake of '06. However,
this lady told me that she WROTE TO EVERY SINGLE CATHOLIC CHURCH in the
City! She said all the replies were that they had lost all records in
the '06 EXCEPT for Old St. Mary's Church. She said a lady named Dorothy
wrote her with the information on her great grandmother's birth!

I haven't the energy to write to all the Catholic churches I have found
in my own family history in San Franicsco - but obviously IF you do it
MIGHT just pay off!

Surprise surprise huh?

Susanna

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