Bates Genealogy

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  • The Bates Family Celebrates Christmas 1912

    The Bates Family Celebrates Christmas 1912

    In December 1912, the Santa Ana Register ran an article describing a Christmas celebration at the home of my grandparents, Gilbert and Beatrice [Lockwood] Bates.  Of the twenty-two attendees, at least twenty-one were close family members who had moved from Michigan to California.