I'm taking a class through the National Genealogical Society. We are being asked to visit a repository to view marriage records. We have to write a report describing the collection that is held there. I believe the closest Los Angeles County repository to where I live now is in Norwalk, but I'd like to go wherever I would have the best chance of viewing marriage records in their original state or wherever they have the best collection. My family is from Compton, Los Angeles, California. My father was born there in 1922 and there were several related families in the area, so this would be an interesting adventure. I'd like to have access to birth and death records too. Can anyone point in the right direction? Any tips?

From the county web site: http://www.lavote.net/recorder/bdm_records.cfm _*Viewing Vital Records:*_ The Department of Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk is located at 12400 Imperial Highway in Norwalk . The following will provide you with the procedure for viewing vital records. Certificates and indexes of birth, death and marriage records not exempt from public inspections may be examined at the Office of the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. , Monday through Friday, except holidays. In addition to certificates on file, there are indexes of birth, death and marriages available for public inspection as follows: Births prior to 1905 and from 1964 to the present; Deaths from 1877 to the present; and Marriages from 1852 to the present. Records of confidential marriages performed pursuant to Family Code Section 500 are not available for public review. Certificates and indexes may be examined at no charge unless a deputy is requested search and/or retrieve more than five records. Random searches of the indexes or the certificates are _*not*_ allowed. An application is required for each record searched. Information sufficient to identify the requested record must be provided. The application is here: http://www.lavote.net/recorder/PDFS/viewMarriage.pdf Specifically note the part about "random searches" and needing to fill out one of those applications for each record you want to see. On 9/8/2011 5:20 PM, Christine Pettit wrote: > I'm taking a class through the National Genealogical Society. We are being asked to visit a repository to view marriage records. We have to write a report describing the collection that is held there. > > I believe the closest Los Angeles County repository to where I live now is in Norwalk, but I'd like to go wherever I would have the best chance of viewing marriage records in their original state or wherever they have the best collection. > > My family is from Compton, Los Angeles, California. My father was born there in 1922 and there were several related families in the area, so this would be an interesting adventure. I'd like to have access to birth and death records too. > > Can anyone point in the right direction? Any tips? > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CALOSANG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >