Have you looked for probate files? --Laurel 8:22 AM -0800 3/7/99, Jessie Moniz wrote: >I think I have done everything possible through official channels. I >have >a death certificate. Someone looked up his obit for me, and there was >not a single >family member mentioned it. The same kind soul went to the Lone Tree >Cemetary. >The grave said: "We Loved You Pops" indicating a family, but nothing >more. >I've emailed and written to just about every address I could find of >people named Simons living in Hayward. Most of them were Russian Jews, >not Portuguese. I was hoping someone on this list from Hayward would >remember a Simons family, maybe someone they went to school with. >Recently, through the white pages I discovered there's a patch of Simons >living in Agoura Hills, (which is out of the context of this list I >understand). >Jessie Moniz