Tish,
The city of Sacramento has a Center for Sacramento History located
just off Richards Blvd. The web site is:
http://www.cityofsacramento.org/ccl/history/resources/default.asp
You may be able to ask the Librarian if they have the railroad
records. TEL (916) 808-7072
Under RESOURCES there is a collection of over 400 railroad photos.
Conducting research is by appointment and the dates available are on
this web page.
Happy hunting, DonnaO
On Apr 2, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Julie Marsh wrote:
Also if you can not find the information at the museum you might
want to go to the main liberary downtown. They have lots of
information for history and genealogy research in the California
Room. The state Liberary is on L I believe and they also have most
records for the state availible for research. You will want to check
online first before going to check on there hours to see when they
are open. Cut backs have affected that alot.
Julzz
From: "tish.me...@gmail.com" <tish.me...@gmail.com>
To: azores@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sat, April 2, 2011 9:09:54 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Brickwall Broken!
Eric,
When you go to the train museum, if you have time, could you find
out if there are records of weekly pay statements for 1858-1900 for
the men who built the railroad. I think I am interested in the
railroad that was near Mission San Jose, Niles area.
Thanks in advance,
Tish
On Apr 2, 2011 6:34am, netadosaco...@aol.com wrote:
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> Eric,
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> Congratulations! Know the feeling on breaking through. Wish I
> could be there to share your serendipity... but I shall have to
settle for
> a glass here in Utah.
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> Ally
>
> Vieira Anselmo in Ribeira Seca, Sao Miguel
> Pinheiro, Nunes, Silveira in Praia do Almoxarife and Pedro
> Miguel, Faial
> Silveira, Rodrigues in Sao Jorge
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> In a message dated 4/1/2011 10:35:51 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
> gomes.ances...@gmail.com writes:
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> I did it!!!!I broke down my first serious brickwall
> today...
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> I have been trying to find where my great-great grandfather, Manuel
> Rodrigues is buried. He immigrated to Hawaii in the 1880's from the
> Azores and then the family immigrated from Hawaii in 1906...
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> So... according to family lore, he was killed by a train in
Oakland when
> my grandmother was a child. She has no memory of him or her other
> grandfather, Manuel Cabral, who was also killed by a train in
Oakland in 1925
> when she was 3 days old.
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>
>
> Well, I finally found him... I have searched the internet, been to
the
> Oakland Family History Center on several occasions, used City
> Directories, pulled the California Death Index from the Oakland
Public
> Library, looked through numerous micro film rolls of the Oakland
Tribune and
> the Hayward Daily Review at the Oakland Public Library and
California State
> University HAYWARD (I refuse to call it East Bay) to no avail...
> well, it turns out, the CA death index had him listed as Manuel
> RodrigueZ....
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> I was at Cal State Hayward today and was looking for Manuel
Rodriguez in
> the June 10, 1927 Oakland Tribune... I first found an article of an
> unidentified elderly man that was struck by a Southern Pacific
Electric
> Train... the type that used to travel across the Oakland Bay
Bridge on the
> first level... that was my first clue... In the June 12, 1927
obituaries, I
> found him listed. I know it is him because the address matched
and the
> middle initial matched... he is the only Manuel A Rodrigues in
several
> different sources. Pay Dirt... =) I will request the death
> certificate the next time I am in Oakland... and I plan on
traveling to
> Sacramento on my next day off to see if there are any records at
the Railroad
> Museum. And now for the serendipity...
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> Eric Gomes
> Castro Valley, CA
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> Surnames: Gomes, Smith, Townsend, Lopes, Cabral, Erwin, Kennedy,
Rodman,
> Rodrigues, and many more.
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