From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Fri Aug 11 15:45:03 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7BLj3jb012396; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:45:03 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7BLixEk030854 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:45:02 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k7BIowFI029337 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:50:59 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k7BIow3Y029336 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:50:58 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k7BI4VFI029206 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:04:31 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k7BKhjIE008851 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:43:45 -0600 X-Envelope-From: ChristieTrapp@aol.com Fri Aug 11 14:43:45 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7BKhjjb008840 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:43:45 -0600 Received: from imo-m26.mx.aol.com (imo-m26.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.7]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7BKhiM9016652 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:43:45 -0600 Received: from ChristieTrapp@aol.com by imo-m26.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.6.) id e.bbf.2ec2027 (58808) for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:43:34 -0400 (EDT) From: ChristieTrapp@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:43:34 EDT To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5330 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Whittier, California - Dale Ash Whittier is a fairly large city, so there should be a library in the town. If you hired a researcher who did newspaper lookups from Sacramento, the person probably when to the California State Archives in Sacramento to do the lookup. That library has all the newspapers from throughout the state of California that are published, some of them as far back as the 1890s to the present. So if they indicated there was no obituary posted, there probably wasn't. Sometimes obituaries are not published because the family didn't want to spend the money to have one published. However, if you have his full name, his date of death and place of death, you can checkVitalsearch.com for California Deaths to see if his death is listed. There is also births and marriages on line as well through this same outfit.If that is all the information you wanted, a confirmation of death, that should do it. If you want more details, then you will need to order the death certificate either through Sacramento (the slow way) or through the county where the death occurred (the faster way). Either way, the price is the same, the only difference is the speed in which the death certificate is returned. If you are looking for survivors, then the obituary is the only answer, but if none was published, the only answers you are going to get from the death certificate is the name of any spouse, who reported the death information on the cert, the funeral home that took care of the body and the place of burial, cause of death and things like that. If the person was living in the 1930, you have the 1930 census and can go back from there. There also might be Polk or Cole's City Directories that you might want to look up the name that is published and the local library just might have copies of those, but whether or not they will do individual research look ups in those many volumes is questionable. You might need to hire someone to do the lookups in those volumes. You might have to go to a larger library, such as the Los Angeles Public Library for these directories, but the local library might be able to direct you, if you ask, to the correct library that might have copies of these directories. Christie Trapp