Don, Below is the url to order a death certificate for your uncle. Also, I saw several items of interest for Samuel Austin Fox at the Family Search web site (url below). Good luck with your genealogy research. Joseph Here is an online link to the Los Angeles County Registrar/Recorder http://www.lavote.net/RECORDER/BDM_Records.cfm There are forms for all certs with instructions to obtain one. Note that you do not have to qualify for a legal or authorized copy. An informational copy is sufficient for genealogy purposes. Cost is the same, but proof of authorization is not required. Applications to obtain a cert can be printed, filled out, and mailed. Family Search Site: https://familysearch.org/ VitalChek [order death certificates online, however, as Joe W. mentioned it costs much more]. http://www.vitalchek.com/express-death-certificates.aspx On 5/3/12 8:29 AM, "Joe Walker" <joe_walker_2000@yahoo.com> wrote: Each of California's registrar recorders makes death certificates available via mail for only $14. It is cheap and quick. Other coomercial websites will charge you $25 or more, but all they are doing is ordering it themself and then mailing it to you. Joe --- On Thu, 5/3/12, the cohens <the.cohens.in.california@gmail.com> wrote: From: the cohens <the.cohens.in.california@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [CALOSANG] Are California death certificates available online for 1957? To: calosang@rootsweb.com Date: Thursday, May 3, 2012, 8:20 AM The best you can do to find online information about where someone who died in California was buried, is to find him or her at a site that catalogues burials, unless you can find him or her in a family tree, find an obituary, or locate a relative who knows. The site I use the most to look for California burials is the following, but I do not see him there: http://findagrave.com You can also try: http://www.interment.net/us/ca/ If he was Jewish, you could also check http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/cemetery (requires free registration) On 4/30/12, Don L Fox <foxeydl@q.com> wrote: > I am looking for a place of burial or death certificate for my uncle, Samuel > > Austin Fox. > He died in 1957 in the Los Angeles area. > > A death certificate would tell where he was buried. ------------------------------- 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

Joe described the process perfectly. While some people will insist that the forms have to be notarized, signed in triplicate, personally delivered, and have a DNA sample enclosed, it really is pretty simple.   Fill out the form. Write informational copy across the top. Enclose a SASE. Write a check for $14. (it went up from $12) About two weeks later, look in your mailbox.   I cannot emphasize enough how much valuable info is contained on an actual hard copy DCT.   Joe --- On Thu, 5/3/12, Antunez, Joseph A <joseph.antunez@csun.edu> wrote: From: Antunez, Joseph A <joseph.antunez@csun.edu> Subject: Re: [CALOSANG] Are California death certificates available online for 1957? To: "calosang@rootsweb.com" <calosang@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, May 3, 2012, 8:51 AM Don, Below is the url to order a death certificate for your uncle. Also, I saw several items of interest for Samuel Austin Fox at the Family Search web site (url below). Good luck with your genealogy research. Joseph Here is an online link to the Los Angeles County Registrar/Recorder http://www.lavote.net/RECORDER/BDM_Records.cfm There are forms for all certs with instructions to obtain one.  Note that you do not have to qualify for a legal or authorized copy.  An informational copy is sufficient for genealogy purposes.  Cost is the same, but proof of authorization is not required. Applications to obtain a cert can be printed, filled out, and mailed. Family Search Site: https://familysearch.org/ VitalChek [order death certificates online, however, as Joe W. mentioned it costs much more]. http://www.vitalchek.com/express-death-certificates.aspx On 5/3/12 8:29 AM, "Joe Walker" <joe_walker_2000@yahoo.com> wrote: Each of California's registrar recorders makes death certificates available via mail for only $14.  It is cheap and quick.  Other coomercial websites will charge you $25 or more, but all they are doing is ordering it themself and then mailing it to you. Joe --- On Thu, 5/3/12, the cohens <the.cohens.in.california@gmail.com> wrote: From: the cohens <the.cohens.in.california@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [CALOSANG] Are California death certificates available online for 1957? To: calosang@rootsweb.com Date: Thursday, May 3, 2012, 8:20 AM The best you can do to find online information about where someone who died in California was buried, is to find him or her  at a site that catalogues burials, unless you can find him or her in a family tree, find an obituary, or locate a relative who knows. The site I use the most to look for California  burials is the following, but I do  not see him there: http://findagrave.com You can also try: http://www.interment.net/us/ca/ If he was Jewish, you could also check http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/cemetery (requires free registration) On 4/30/12, Don L Fox <foxeydl@q.com> wrote: > I am looking for a place of burial or death certificate for my uncle, Samuel > > Austin Fox. > He died in 1957 in the Los Angeles area. > > A death certificate would tell where he was buried. ------------------------------- 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

I will comment that if I order a certificate, I much prefer ordering fron the State rather than the county. It takes more like 6 months instead of the two weeks which the county takes, but the copies are better, at least the ones I have gotten. http://www.cdph.ca.gov/certlic/birthdeathmar/pages/certifiedcopiesofbirthdeathrecords.aspx The state sends color copies with the words "informational, not a valid document to establish identity" stamped across the document in a light red, so the writing underneath is easier to read. The copies I have gotten from Los Angeles County had those words in Black, and the writing underneath was much more difficult to decipher because of that.