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From: Larry Kuttner <>
Subject: Re: NORCAL Genealogy Index
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 00:17:17 -0700


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I had someone obtain a Pioneer Card from the Sacramento
State Library file for my Great-Grandfather, N. Kuttner. It was filled out
by one of his grandsons, Edgar Levey, and told when and where he had arrived
in New York, from Prussia, in the 1850's and then went by boat to Panama,
crossed to the Pacific and continued by boat to San Francisco. Like a great
many things this information is only as good as the person supplying it.
However, Edgar was fairly well acquainted with his grandfather, he was the
enumerator for the 1900 census district in which his grand parents lived in
San Francisco. Anyway, like anything else in genealogy, its a crap shoot,
but in my opinion worth trying. The FHC people microfilmed the State
Library card file in I believe 1966 and it's available as microfiche. There
are about 700,000 entries on 550 microfiche. Costs about $80 or so to get,
but for California researchers in the boonies, it's worthwhile, or so I
thought. Only question is what's been added since 1966.

Regards,

Larry Kuttner

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At 09:41 PM 4/20/97 -0400, wrote:
>Ken and all,
>I had found a citation in the California Information File for Pioneer Card
>File. In this particular case there really wasn't anything in it. What they
>had was an index card and the information was that a card (I presume an
>information card) had been sent to several of this ancestors descendants
>(again I'm assuming) for information to be provided to the state library on
>that particular pioneer. It did provide names and addresses of where the
>requests had been sent so it did provide me with some information on
>collateral lines. Unfortunately, none of those descendants contacted
>responded to the library's requests.
>
>Sandra or someone else may know more about what may be in a file that has
>something in it. Now that I think of it the Pioneer Card File is available
>on microfilm and may be available on ILL. Others which I saw had letters or
>other information having to do with the pioneer in question. Hope this helps
>a little.
>
>In a message dated 97-04-19 22:37:18 EDT,
>writes:
><< The California Room is loaded with them. If will frequently see a
>reference
> to an index in the California Room like "Pioneer Record File". I don't have
> the faintest idea what that means. Is it just a list of people who came to
> California early on? Does it have any information other than a list of
> names? Is it a card file or microfilm or both? Is it available at any other
> libraries? If it contains specific information about pioneers, what period
> does it cover and what specific information does it provide? Or does it
> just refer people to books and documents like the California Information
> File. The questions go on and on and you probably won't get much help from
> MELVYL in answering these questions. I don't even know if it is in MELVYL.
>>>
>
>

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