California State funeral and cemetery law does NOT require that such lists be made public. The cemeteries must keep a plot map and list, but because so many private operators are using some of the state's oldest graveyards, they have no historical records of burials. When mortuaries go out of business, there is no requirement that they place their records with anyone or any entity. Sometimes the new operators are inclined to start their own records and have little use for the old ones of the companies they have purchased. Finally, in terms of historic-era California (statehood forward), thousands were buried in unmarked graves and no one was administering the cemeteries. No law in historic times required such records. There are literally thousands and thousands of graves in the old cemeteries that remain unmarked today and the identities of those interred in them is unknown. Finally, there is not even a full list of all the cemeteries in the State. The old State Cemetery Board surveyed the counties when it was created in 1949, but I know of cemeteries that aren't even on the old 1950's board listings. Sometimes you can only do what you can do in tracking down an ancestor. My own g-g-grandfather's grave site is unknown and he may be in one of two of the cemeteries local to his place of death. But since NO RECORDS were kept at the cemeteries, I will never know for certain. ----- Original Message ----- From: Joe Walker To: calosang@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 4:26 PM Subject: Re: [CALOSANG] Cemetery lists for Los Angeles cems.? Aaron, I have been doing family research for 30 plus years in Los Angeles County, and I am just as sure that the info is not there. I asked the original requestor how many names he was looking for. The only sure way to get the info is to get copies of the death certificates from our local registrar recorders. Joe --- On Mon, 12/5/11, Aaron Hill <aaronjhill@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: From: Aaron Hill <aaronjhill@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: [CALOSANG] Cemetery lists for Los Angeles cems.? To: calosang@rootsweb.com Date: Monday, December 5, 2011, 3:50 PM I am confident there are lists of folks buried and where. These lists have been a staple of local genealogical societies for decades. It was one method for these groups to make a little money. These may not be centralized and not exhaustive, but they do indeed exist. -- Aaron --- On Mon, 5/12/11, Joe Walker <joe_walker_2000@yahoo.com> wrote: > Good info...except he wants a list of everyone buried in LA > County. While we can wish all we want that there were > libraries that kept that info, it is not maintained > anywhere. > > Joe ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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