To Los Angeles in the 1840s

In my last update of my genealogy research from a little over a year ago, I had discovered several new exciting leads for who and where my great great grandparents were prior to appearing in the Los Angeles 1850 census. After examining the data again, and after discovering a new baptismal record in Mexico, I am now prepared to fully go with the hypothesis I raised a year ago.

I looked at this again because my sister wanted to join the Society of California Pioneers. The application required submission of a family tree, with the membership requirement that an ancestor have been in California prior to January 1, 1850. This requirement disqualified Henry Schwerin, because although some of his brothers arrived in 1849, he didn't arrive in San Francisco until January 1850. He missed the Society's deadline by a month. So that sends us back to our dad's side of the family, and the mystery of when my great great grandparents arrived in L.A.