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From: "BILLYE HOLDER" <>
Subject: Re: Panama Canal Worker
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 17:49:28 -0500

My Step- Grandfather worked on the Panama Canal, too. I would like to know
the same things. I never knew how he got the job,etc.
Billye Holder
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Date: Sunday, August 09, 1998 12:26 PM
Subject: Panama Canal Worker

>Can anyone tell me where to look for someone who may have gone down to work
on
>the Panama Canal during the construction period and died down there? The
line
>we are working on now is that our elusive great-great-grandfather went down
>there to work because of the lack of jobs in Indiana at the time and died
>while down there. Where would I find a list of people who worked there?
Who
>paid them? a private company? The US government??? and where would I look
for
>Death certificates for down there? Were they recorded in the country where
>they died or were seperate files kept by the country that they were from?
>
>Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>Diane
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