Lost Souls in the other LA Lotus - please share Thanks Terry & Cate From the Orleans (civil) Parish Board (ie country) Copied from FB page ... some of you may find an ancestor heretofore MIA. Cate ;-} ******* Compelling article about the unclaimed persons of Los Angeles County, CA. For potential family members and would-be sleuths, it includes an online database of about 1,400 who will be buried on Dec 10 if not claimed by relatives. The Unclaimed Persons volunteer group is mentioned, as is Joyce Kato, the LA County coroner who was one of the first to work with us. I'm also quoted toward the end. http://www.latimes.com/?/la-me-c1-unclaimed-dead-20141109-s? here's the database along with some eye-opening graphics: http://spreadsheets.latimes.com/unclaimed-dead/ L.A. County?s unclaimed remains of 2011 The names of those cremated at the Los Angeles County Crematory in Boyle Heights have been recorded by hand in ledgers since the early 1960s. The ashes of those who remain unclaimed after three years are buried in one mass grave each December. A ceremony remembering the unclaimed people will take pl? http://spreadsheets.latimes.com/