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From: Venita Roylance <>
Subject: Re: [UTAH] Old Promitory Point
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:50:21 -0600
In-Reply-To: <001801c33775$1c9a9560$6401a8c0@ev1.net>

Yes, Carole, there is. Check out this site:

http://www.utah.com/nationalsites/golden_spike.htm

Yours,

Venita

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On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 03:44 PM, Carole Beth Arnette wrote:

> Anyone, is there is a tourist area, viewing area around it? When I
> checked
> it out on the MSN map, showed it w of the Grt Salt Lake area.
>
> Thanks,
> Carole Beth
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Venita Roylance" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 3:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [UTAH] Old Promitory Point
>
>
>> Hi Marcena,
>>
>> I just returned from being out of town and don't know whether you have
>> received any responses to your request or not. What records have you
>> already consulted? Have you searched FamilySearch.org? I would suggest
>> that as a good place to begin.
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, I did a lookup in the 1880 census for Utah
>> (available on FamilySearch.org) for the county of Box Elder and the
>> surname of CANFIELD and found this response:
>>
>> Census Place
>> Promontory, Box Elder, Utah
>>
>> Family History Library Film
>> 1255335
>>
>> NA Film Number
>> T9-1335
>>
>> Page Number
>> 113B
>>
>> John CANFIELD Self Male 39 [born] NEW YORK Laborer
>> Alice CANFIELD Wife Female 25 [born] VIRGINIA Keeping House
>> Burs CANFIELD Son Male 7 [born] KANSAS
>> Mary CANFIELD Dau Female 4 [born] UTAH
>> Charles CANFIELD Son Male 2 [born] UTAH
>>
>> Hope this helps a bit!
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> Venita
>>
>> Homepage
>> http://homepage.mac.com/venitar/home.html
>>
>> Photos of Utah
>> http://homepage.mac.com/venitar/Utah/Utah.html
>>
>> On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 09:24 AM, wrote:
>>
>>> Could someone please tell me where I would find old records for Old
>>> Promitory
>>> Point.
>>> My great grandmother lived on a ranch near there in about 1860-1890.
>>> Her
>>> maiden name was Hatch and she married a Canfield.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>> Marcena Thompson
>>> RAOGK
>>> www.newmexicogenealogy.org/~nmgdonan/index.html
>>> NM GenExchange:
>>> http://www.genexchange.org/county.cfm?state=nm&county-donaana
>>> Mailing List: http://www.genexchange.org/maillistform.cfm

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      • Re: [UTAH] Old Promitory Point by "Pacific Landing, Inc" <>

      • Re: [UTAH] Old Promitory Point by Venita Roylance <>