Genealogy Projects tagged with Sierra on the Geni Family Tree

Donner Party

A project to document the Donner party and their rescuers. Feel free to join in and help.The Donner Party, or Donner–Reed Party, was a group of American pioneers that set out for California in a wagon train in May 1846. Departing from Independence, Missouri, they were delayed by a series of mishaps and mistakes, and spent the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. Some of the pioneer...