Archive for August 2005

What is the date for death of Margaret Blacklock Burrows?

Thursday, 25 August 2005

I decided to try to determine Margaret Blacklock Burrows, the mother of Worthen Burrows, date of death. She was listed in the 1920 census in Winters, California. Since the 1930 is not yet indexed, I wanted to make sure she would be there before I started searching those records page by page. […]

What is the date of death for Margaret Eliza Lewis Burrows?

Thursday, 25 August 2005

I wanted to determine the date of death of Margaret Eliza Lewis Burrows. I knew she died in Yolo or Sacramento County in the early 1990s, so it shouldn’t be a problem finding her, since the California Death Records database at RootsWeb.com currently contains records through 1997. I found her, but it wasn’t […]

The Pot of Gold at Newspaper Abstracts

Tuesday, 23 August 2005

Last night I discovered NewspaperAbstracts, which proved to be very exciting and kept me up most of the night. Transcriptions of “The Winters Express” from 1890 and 1891 mention not only Worthen Burrows, but Charles Burrows and John Burrows as well. They are mentioned in the Winters Public School reports, which were apparently […]

John Roberts

Tuesday, 23 August 2005

The family group sheet for John Roberts has been updated.