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- Walt--
-
- I went in melvyl (University of California combined library catalogs) and
- searched for Diggings in the subject heading field, ie f su diggings. The
- results were:
-
- Malakoff Diggins State Park (Calif.)
- Murphy's Diggings (Calif.)
- Coyote Diggings (Calif.)
- Secret Diggings (Calif.)
-
- Hope one of these looks promising. Also, the UW has several books on
- California Geographical Names. I just searched for California and place
- names and found several titles.
-
- Lisa
-
- Walt Criteser wrote:
-
- > My last query regarding Oregon Libraries on the Internet turned
- > out to be very productive. Thank you one and all. With the
- > success of my last query I have constructed a new query.
- >
- > I have recently obtained a copy of my great great grandmothers,
- > Mary Ellen ALDRICH, death certificate. Note, she went by the
- > alias of May. Three items on the certificate are only partially
- > distinguishable.
- >
- > The one item I think someone on the net might be able to help me
- > with is the place of birth. The part of the scrawl I was able to
- > decipher was California. On the other hand, the city/town (?) is
- > very difficult to read, but I think one of the words might be
- > Diggings. Hence, I think grandma May's place of birth is
- >
- > XXXXXX Diggings California.
- >
- > Where XXXXXXX is unkown since I cannot read it. To help establish
- > a time frame, her date of birth is calculated to be 31 Oct 1861.
- > Does anybody know what the "X" might be? Is there now, or use to be
- > any towns with the name of Diggings in the name? Is there any
- > California counties or towns that contain the word, or a word similar
- > to Diggings? Suggestions might give me just that little bit of extra
- > information to help me match it to what is written on the certificate.
- >
- > Thank you.
- > Walt Criteser
- > waltcr@microsoft.com
- >
- > PRIMARY RESEARCH: CRITESER (everywhere), GOUGE (or/ia/in/ky),
- > CAIN (or/id/mo), ALDRICH (or/ca/id/england?).
- > RELATED LINES: JONES, MITCHELL, EDWARDS, LASWELL, LIVINGSTON, RINKER
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