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The following pages of text and photographs is an ongoing journey through time. We are reaching and stretching, following small leads and shadowy trails, often meeting an impasse or a black wall, all in an attempt to trace the complex inter-relationships and connections of lives lived long ago.

What we are learning is this task is an arduous one, but also one filled with reward. It is ironic that we are able to initiate this task in an era utilizing the most modern of equipment to successfully reach back and find those who came before us, many of whom lived in times of famine and hardship, and had the courage to leave the precious behind in order to find that illusive "better future."

Katie and Mike Neubauer

Email us at [email protected]

Our family:

Michael and Katie, were married August 15, 1970, under the redwoods at Muir Woods, California. Katie has devoted her working years as a nurse and Michael is an engineer and physicist working for Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. During their marriage of twenty-eight years they have been blessed with two sons. Morgan and Brandon[email protected] who are now in the process of setting out on their own. Perhaps some day, some unknown descendent of theirs will look back and find our story of as much interest to them, as we have found that of our ancestors.

Katie's introduction and Reader's Guide
Mike's introduction and Reader's Guide

Pictures and Stories of Old Sonoma, California


Cooper Bridge #1
A walk on the bridge
Cooper House built in 1849
The Blue Wing Inn
1877 Atlas of Sonoma, Co.
Bower's 1867 Map of Sonoma, Co.

Pictures of Old Palo Alto and Stanford, California

Katie's grandfather on Stanford's first baseball team
Katie's grandfather and uncle on Stanford's first football team
Katie's Mother was born here

Ships

The Rigging of sailing vessels (Richard Henry Dana)
Which one of these did James Cooper come to California on?

HomeTowns

James Cooper's Home Town
Sarah Bigelow's Home Town

Book Reviews

The California Diary of Faxon Dean Atherton 1836-1839

Historic Cosumnes and the Slough House Pioneer Cemetery

Pioneer Sonoma

William Tecumseh Sherman: Gold Rush Banker


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