All opinions are welcome here : )   If you order the death certificates from LA Vote.net, they will be in your hands in a couple of weeks.  I have used them more times than I can count, and never found them hard to read.   Joe --- On Mon, 6/11/12, the cohens <the.cohens.in.california@gmail.com> wrote: From: the cohens <the.cohens.in.california@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [CALOSANG] Death Certificate 1958 and Jewish Genealogy Groups in LA?? To: "GrowingATree" <growingatree@hotmail.com>, calosang@rootsweb.com Date: Monday, June 11, 2012, 2:51 PM On 6/11/12, GrowingATree <growingatree@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Now,to obtain the death records.  Would the LDS Family History Library have > these records of death (Los Angeles 1958)?  Guess I need to look into that. > I'd like to get the records for Amalia, her husband Sam, Bella and Morris > Steinberg. And, Rose, if possible..... The LDS is not likely to have any California Death certificates.  I want to   mention that I have had trouble reading the copies of Death Certificates ordered from LAVote because of the color scheme that they use, so I choose to wait the six months it takes to get them from the State of California instead. The main problem for me has been the watermark or whatever words are printed are in  Black and obscure the information I need to see beneath those words.  The certificates from the State are in thin Red, and much easier to read what is underneath.  Processing time may be a more critical factor for you, but when I needed to figure out what the name was of a Polish town and name of a spouse  written under those Black Letters, it was extremely difficult. In case you want to try the State, the URL is   http://www.cdph.ca.gov/certlic/birthdeathmar/Pages/CertifiedCopiesofBirthDeathRecords.aspx Now, for finding the deaths of your other ancestors, we have a great resource in the California Death Index, which is available at many free sites.  Here is the URL for the one at Rootsweb, sorry the link is so long and ugly: http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi?cj=1&o_xid=0000584 If that breaks, Family Search (the LDS site) also has the CDI: https://www.familysearch.org/ ------------------------------- 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