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18 sie 1996 · More than 300 Donner Party descendants revisited the scene of their ancestors' worst terrors Saturday to observe the 150th anniversary of their tragic westward trek. Unlike the hard-luck pioneers, the descendants enjoyed good weather, abundant food and cordial relations at California Trail Days '96 and the Donner Party Sesquicentennial.
29 kwi 1996 · More than 125 direct descendants of George Donner are expected to attend a family reunion July 20 at Donner Lake. The last such Donner reunion was held in 1990 in Truckee.
24 gru 2021 · James L. Amos/Getty Images. The rescue party left Sutter's Fort on Jan. 31, 1847, and found the survivors at Donner Lake on Feb. 18. Forty-six starving, half-dead people made it out alive.
Daily diary entries about the Donner Party with maps and pictures.
22 lut 2023 · TULARE – After almost two hundred years, a local Tularian and descendant of the migrants from the Donner party, will be telling the story of the Donner family at the Tulare Public Library. Presented for the benefit of the Sequoia Genealogical Society, Pat Hillman, will take center stage.
Two sisters explore family links to the ill-fated Donner party while at St. Louis Union Station. The Donner party has become synonymous with the difficulties of Westward United States...
5 mar 2010 · The Donner Party was a group of 89 emigrants from Illinois who purportedly turned to cannibalism to survive after getting trapped by snowfall while on a westward journey in 1846.
