"Still, the Franciscans remained good record-keepers. They assigned numbers to each baptism and carefully noted parents and godparents, village of origin, ethnic background and trades. As a result, many people can be traced with astonishing specifics through life and, with computer links, their progeny."
The Los Angeles Times reports on the Early California Population Project, an online database created by the Huntington Library to document California's population history from 1769 to 1850.
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