Pam, The Los Angeles Times only has obits for famous people. So you would need to know where in Los Angeles County that person lived so you could check in one of the city newspapers (of which there are many). I would get someone on the list to transcribe the death record for you. (I just paid someone to do that). Then you would know where the person lived so you could contact the local newspaper. Joyce Sent from my iPad On Mar 20, 2014, at 8:40 AM, <ssshoe@cox.net> wrote: > Thanks everyone for the suggestions on finding obits. > > These 2 individuals are not on Find A Grave (already checked). Not sure if the library closest to me has Pro Quest. > I do not know where they lived - other than according to the CA Death Index they died in Los Angeles. > > The two people I am trying to find obits for are as follows: > > 1. Robert Knox Pierson - D/O/D - 12-17-1949 - Los Angeles > > 2. Katherine Elizabeth (Evans) Boyle - D/O/D - 1-26-1952 - Los Angeles > (Katherine was the mother of the well known writer and novelist Kay Boyle!) > > I do understand that one needs to know where a person lived to write to that library - but I do not have that info, and thus my confusion about where to write to for the info. Los Angeles seems to be quite difficult in that respect. Usually one writes to a local genealogy society for help in getting obits...but that doesn't seem to be the case in Los Angeles? Not that easy. > I tried looking in City Directories as well-couldn't find them..but I believe both of them may have been living with other relatives. > > Thank you for any help! > > Pam > > > > ------------------------------- > 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

getting a death cert is $16, how much is the transcription cost? Thanks, Gail ~ Gail Schinnerer Jorgensen ~ On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Joyce Finch <joycef14@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Pam, > The Los Angeles Times only has obits for famous people. So you would need > to know where in Los Angeles County that person lived so you could check in > one of the city newspapers (of which there are many). I would get someone > on the list to transcribe the death record for you. (I just paid someone > to do that). Then you would know where the person lived so you could > contact the local newspaper. > Joyce > > Sent from my iPad > > On Mar 20, 2014, at 8:40 AM, <ssshoe@cox.net> wrote: > > > Thanks everyone for the suggestions on finding obits. > > > > These 2 individuals are not on Find A Grave (already checked). Not sure > if the library closest to me has Pro Quest. > > I do not know where they lived - other than according to the CA Death > Index they died in Los Angeles. > > > > The two people I am trying to find obits for are as follows: > > > > 1. Robert Knox Pierson - D/O/D - 12-17-1949 - Los Angeles > > > > 2. Katherine Elizabeth (Evans) Boyle - D/O/D - 1-26-1952 - Los Angeles > > (Katherine was the mother of the well known writer and novelist Kay > Boyle!) > > > > I do understand that one needs to know where a person lived to write to > that library - but I do not have that info, and thus my confusion about > where to write to for the info. Los Angeles seems to be quite difficult in > that respect. Usually one writes to a local genealogy society for help in > getting obits...but that doesn't seem to be the case in Los Angeles? Not > that easy. > > I tried looking in City Directories as well-couldn't find them..but I > believe both of them may have been living with other relatives. > > > > Thank you for any help! > > > > Pam > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 >