The RootCellar.org holds contests for biographical sketches every year, it is a group out of Sacramento, and they are also offering Pioneer Certificates for ancestors who were living in California prior to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. This would include Abraham Gardiner Barnes (1795-1869) who left Cooper, Missouri and arrived in Yolo County, California in 1854. This by default also would allow his son, William T. Barnes (1831-1895) who also came in 1854, and grandson, Charles Marion Barnes who was born in Cache, Yolo, California in 1857 (d.1933) both to qualify for the Pioneer Certificate as well. The latter two did move to Washington State, between 1875-1880.
I think it would be nice to contribute to this database, so I will definitely need to write up a biographical sketch of the family, and then submit it for both the contest, and the Pioneer Certificate.
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