Local deaths obituaries archive#
Local deaths obituaries plus#

This index only provides the county of death, unless the death occurred in the cities of Alameda, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco. From this transcription, you can often find name, Social Security number, gender, birth date and place, death date and place, motherвЂ™s maiden name, and you can order a copy of the death certificate online. California, Death Index, 1940-1997 only provides a transcription of the index page.On the digitized page, you can often find the name of the decedent, initials of his/her spouse, age at death, a number representing county or city of death (вЂњ19вЂќ for Los Angeles county вЂњ70вЂќ for Los Angeles city), date of death and STATE-level index number.

Local deaths obituaries plus#

California, Death Index, 1905-1939 provides the digitized index page, plus its transcription.Two state-level California Death Indexes can be found at (a database anyone can access from any library branch and Central Library) or (a free internet database). This information can be obtained from a death index or death certificate. These newspapers are also not indexed, so it will help you immensely if you know the place and date of death. This guide (PDF) can help you find out what newspapers were published in Los Angeles for each decade. If you donвЂ™t find the obituary in the above-mentioned databases, you could come to Central Library to pore over our other microfilmed newspapers. Or give us the precise citation information you find, and we can scan and email the article to you for $5 per request and 25-cents-a-page. Searching for abstracts/citations is free, but to obtain the full-text articles you must pay a fee. You will need a valid library card to access our subscription to the Los Angeles TimesВ at no cost. You may access all three of these databases from home with your library card on our Research & Homework page.

Local deaths obituaries archive#

We also provide access to the digitized newspaper databases Access Newspaper Archives and the Los Angeles Sentinel Historical Archive (1934-2005). We have a subscription to the digitized Los Angeles Times Historical Database (1881-1994). The Southern California Genealogical Society has an online index to obituaries found in the Los Angeles Times, but it is not complete. This means you have to either look through the newspapers page by page near the date of death (usually on microfilm), or search using keywords in a digitized format of the newspaper. There is no comprehensive index to obituaries and death notices for the newspapers in Los Angeles. These vary in length, but many only give the name of the decedent and the name of a mortuary. Death notices-which are paid announcements-appear more frequently. The Los Angeles city newspapers generally only publish obituaries for well-known citizens.