Listmembers;
Here I am again with another topic from the History Channel that could apply to someone.
This time the topic is the Great Earthquake in San Francisco in 1906.
On April 18, 1906 the city was destroyed by the earthquake and the subsequent fires.
While original casualty reports were about 468-700 maximum so that people in the East
would feel that they had taken some precautions and they would therefore contribute money
to the rebuilding--
More recent investigations have found that the death toll was at least 3,000 and some
reports state as high as 4,000.
Now I know for certain that several of our ancestors were found at one time or another in
California.
This could explain someone that seemingly disappears...
There is a lady named Gladys Hansen who decided to make it her mission in life to track
down the names of the casualties and she is still working on it.
Here is a link to a page listing those people- it might bear viewing if you had people
there during that time who vanished.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/perished/index.html
Just more food for thought...
Debbie Jennings