James R. Smith is a well-respected expert on California history in several historical and genealogical forums, voluntarily fulfilling historical research requests. He offered his time to identify and document the locations in photographs of the 1906 earthquake aftermath and received credit for the California research presented in the book “When all Roads Led to Tombstone” by W. Lane Rogers. Smith also recently completed the research for a joint project with that author. He was credited for his research in Wendy Lawton’s “Almost Home” and “Ransom’s Mark”.
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