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From: "Dick Harris" <>
Subject: Re: [DEKENT] Missing from 1850s Census?
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 19:13:19 -0500


Do you suppose there are passport records from that era?
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Date: Sunday, November 05, 2000 8:03 AM
Subject: [DEKENT] Missing from 1850s Census?


>When I received this, I thought it made a very good point & wanted to pass
it
>on:
>
><<Lots of men (and some women, too!) went off to the California Gold rush
in
>1849. Remember that California wasn't part of the USA yet. Therefore they
>will
>not show up on the 1850 census index for anywhere in the USA.
>
>I had an ancestor who was a 49er. I have a copy of his passport (since CA
was
>a
>foreign country.) no, he didn't get rich, but I have a fascinating letter
>from
>him. He made enough money to come back by ship, and had a gold nugget made
>into
>a ring, which my son has.
>
>I was recently searching the 1850 PA census for someone else and couldn't
>find
>the ancestor. When I searched accessible.com I found a biography of the man
>which said he was in California in the year in question. So I thought I
would
>mention this in case anyone else is looking for an ancestor in 1850 and
can't
>find him.>>
>
>Anne Broomall Wiegle
>
> Happy hunting, Helen (DCGH)
>
>
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