User talk:NorCalHistory

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I am taking an indefinite wikibreak.
I'll probably continue to make small fixes as I read pages, but I'll be away from active editing for awhile. Keep up the good work!

1 Archives
2 Thanks to all for everything!
3 Thanks
4 Australia and California gold connections
5 Good to see you back
6 California star

[edit] Archives

[edit] Thanks to all for everything!

This has been an very interesting experience - thank you, thank you! BTW, according to a wikichart, it appears that some 2,500,000 readers saw the Feb. 14, 2007 Main page with the article intro, and some 100,000 readers clicked through to the article itself. NorCalHistory 17:27, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

		To a great morale booster...
		For awarding barnstars wherever they are due, NorCalHistory is hereby awarded this Barnstar of Community Support, for improving the morale of the Wikipedia community. May the support you lend the WP:CAL project motivate you in the days ahead! ronbo76

[edit] Australia and California gold connections

G'day NorcalHistory. Looks like you guys got a hell of pasting with vandals etc around 14 Feb. Anyway, a few days have passed since your site's attacks and chaos; so I'm checking back with you and your group to explore inserting a piece that links the California goldrush into the Australian goldrushes of 1851. I don't think the piece requires an epic tome, rather that some ex-Australian '49ers recognized a similarity between the two locations and Hargraves dropped his explorations in California and raced home; as did some other Aussies. The discoveries of Australian lodes by the ex'49ers attracted other ex-'49ers from California as miners, engineers, businessmen and they participated in and made significant contributions to Australia's social and political development, including the Eureka Rebellion (1854).

Short and simple plus a few references- that should do the job. But it rounds out the article setting the goldrushes of the 19th century into a worldwide context and inter linking them. An almost forgotten flow-on of the post-Australian goldrushes was that our ex-miners drifted into Africa, discovering gold and diamonds and played a role on the Jo'burg goldfields and lead-up to the Boer War. It also gives a linking framework to the expansion of settler societies during that century. For your considerations please. Tonyob 04:05, 21 February 2007 (UTC)