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Gold Ledge Gold Rush Genealogy Title
Texts and Manuscripts

(Special thanks to Rootsweb and its contributors for many of the transcribed records listed below)

ALASKA 

The 1900, 1910 and 1920 Skagway Censuses are available here, as well as obituaries of Alaskan Pioneers: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ak/akfiles.htm

CALIFORNIA

A History of New California -- 1905, 2nd Ed., 763 records:
http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ 

An Illustrated History of Southern California: 1890, 816 records. 
http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ 

German Settlement at Anaheim, by Dorothea Jean Paule, a M.A. 
thesis presented to the Faculty of the Department of History, 
The University of Southern California, 1952. Chapters include an
Introduction, Prelude to Settlement, Establishment of the 
Colony, Early Economic Activities, Culture and Institutions, and
Growth of the Community plus an extensive Bibliography:
ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ca/orange/history/anaheim/

Also included are maps showing (1) the region in 1855, (2) land 
owners in 1860, and (3) land utilization in 1868. The plat map 
showing land owners in 1860 is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps/california/citymap/anaheim/anaheim-1860.jpg 

 

 


Discover the Gold Ledge!
06.23.2006
Volume II, Issue 1
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