Announcements:

I was slowly moving information from my old GeoCities website to this location. Google has been trying to get me to update to the new Google sites for the last year or so. In June 2021 I finally began checking on how data transfered and this update will publish on June 28, 2021. There are some missing and broken links - I hope to fix them later this summer/fall.

Head straight to the Dean family page here - David Dean Project or other surnames that I am interested in.

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I have been conducting Genealogy research for over 40 years; I was inspired by family photos that my mother would take out of a shoebox when family came to visit and by an unpublished family history that an unknown cousin had begun in the early 1900's.

My grandfather told me stories that his grandfather came to California during the gold rush and that his grandfather's grandfather, David Dean, had fought in the American Revolution. He also told me that we were descended from Pilgrims who landed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1620. But he didn't know how we were descended from the Pilgrims and he didn't know much about David Dean and his War service or when or where in California his grandfather had looked for gold--finding answers to those questions inspired me to begin my research.