Mike - that was extremely helpful.....apparently need a library card - and is there a fee for ProQuest? being able to research from home is great.... thanks again............. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Taylor Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 3:41 PM To: Julie ; calosang@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CALOSANG] Help finding obits - LA neigborhood map To All: The only thing I can suggest to to subscribe to ProQuest. This is a search site that will search newspapers as far back as the 1700’s in the USA. I use the Los Angeles City Public Library web site to access ProQuest. Hope this will help. Mike Taylor On Mar 19, 2014, at 3:18 PM, Julie <juls92627@yahoo.com> wrote: > it's not that we are ignoring you, we just don't know, and everyone seems > to post asking for obits! > you have Brentwood, which is considered LA, and Westwood & Hollywood, > still LA, but West Hollywood is it's own city > > unfortunately we are really bad out here for placing obits. It could be > the price, $350 a couple of years ago, I don't know. > > I found this off of Wikipedia on the county : Los Angeles County also > includes two offshore islands, San Clemente Island and Santa Catalina > Island. The county is home to 88 incorporated cities and many > unincorporated areas. At 4,083 square miles (10,570 km2), it is larger > than the combined areas of the states of Rhode Island and Delaware. > > and this really cool map on the Neighborhoods of LA county and inside Los > Angeles > http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/ > > This website talks about how the map was made and mentions censuses: > http://maps.latimes.com/about/ > > That being said, if you give me the name of your people, I will see if I > can find them on the historic LA times. > > If they are not on there, then you will need to figure out the closest > library to them and ask. > > good luck > Julie > tustin, calif > > > From: Linda Holley <ljholley@gmail.com> > To: calosang@rootsweb.com > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 2:23 PM > Subject: Re: [CALOSANG] Help finding obits > > > I have asked this same question a few times on this list and have found no > one to help me. I think one problem is the number of papers which covers > the area. > > Linda Holley > On Mar 19, 2014, at 4:19 PM, <ssshoe@cox.net> wrote: > >> I am trying to locate 2 obit's and am very confused about where I need to >> write to to get them. >> >> One date of death is 1-26-1952 and the other is 1-17-1949 - both in Los >> Angeles. >> >> I would assume the obit's would be the day or two after. >> >> Does anyone on this list have access to the newspapers for those dates or >> can you suggest where I write to get them? >> >> Thank you! >> >> 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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