While a lot of genealogical research can feel like you’re just slowly sifting your way through a soggy mountain of old data to occasionally discover a few tiny grains of precious family history, once in awhile your heart leaps with the thrill of finding those golden nuggets which add to the genuinely rich heritage that is the family saga.As a direct descendant of some of California’s earliest European explorers and settlers, I am also related to most of the other early Spanish colonial period fa
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