Kathy O <loster@shaw.ca> asked: > Does any one know a cheaper way to get an Obituary from > the L.A. Time? I just researched their site and they are > $40.00 for a copy from 1966. I think this is an > outrageous price.Kathy Oster Kathy. I strongly recommend that you do *NOT* send the L.A. Times so much as 4 cents unless and until you know for certain that a) Such an obituary exists and b) That it is longer than two or three lines. It is often said on this list, and may as well be repeated again, and it will need to be repeated next week if not sooner, that obituaries in Los Angeles are RARE! For the most part, obits are not printed. Those that are printed are, for the most part, death notices that say only that so-and-so died and will be buried by some funeral director yonder. This seems to be peculiar to L.A. The surrounding counties do have obits. Just not Los Angeles. Now, I think that my local library has the L.A. Times on microfilm back to 1966 (just barely), and I might be persuaded to take a peek (maybe, though usually not), but because perhaps only one out of a hundred or fewer people had obits, it's just not worth looking unless your target was rich or famous or popular or had a big Italian family or there is some similar reason to think an obit might exist, especially if your person lived in the City of Los Angeles. As general advice, obit hunters ought to find out what city their person lived in and mention that AND PUT THE CITY IN THE SUBECT LINE. L.A. is a megalopolis. If your person lived at my town, Torrance, for example, there could be an obit in my local paper. But I only look at those CALOSANG posts with interesting subject lines. Some of the small papers in the outlying cities do print obits oftener than hardly ever There are also catalogs listing local papers at your own library, and your own librarian can probably help you to get films of those papers by interlibrary loan. People can have at it themselves, which is the fun part of genealogy -- the do-it-yourself; I never have understood why folks don't just have at it. We live in a too push-button world. Lester Powers ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

I can understand this. When I was marrying my husband, who is from Downey, CA, I asked my mother-in-law about posting our 'announcement' in the paper, as we did in my hometown paper in NC. She just kind of laughed and said nobody does that here! I guess L.A. is just so big and impersonal and there are so many weddings, births, deaths,...it would be kind of silly to put it in the big paper! just my 2 cents...Carolyn Lester M Powers wrote: > > Kathy O <loster@shaw.ca> asked: > > Does any one know a cheaper way to get an Obituary from > > the L.A. Time? I just researched their site and they are > > $40.00 for a copy from 1966. I think this is an > > outrageous price.Kathy Oster > > Kathy. I strongly recommend that you do *NOT* send > the L.A. Times so much as 4 cents unless and until you > know for certain that a) Such an obituary exists and b) > That it is longer than two or three lines. > > It is often said on this list, and may as well be > repeated again, and it will need to be repeated next > week if not sooner, that obituaries in Los Angeles are > RARE! For the most part, obits are not printed. Those > that are printed are, for the most part, death notices > that say only that so-and-so died and will be buried by > some funeral director yonder. This seems to be peculiar > to L.A. The surrounding counties do have obits. Just > not Los Angeles. > > Now, I think that my local library has the L.A. > Times on microfilm back to 1966 (just barely), and I > might be persuaded to take a peek (maybe, though usually > not), but because perhaps only one out of a hundred or > fewer people had obits, it's just not worth looking > unless your target was rich or famous or popular or had > a big Italian family or there is some similar reason to > think an obit might exist, especially if your person > lived in the City of Los Angeles. > > As general advice, obit hunters ought to find out > what city their person lived in and mention that AND > PUT THE CITY IN THE SUBECT LINE. L.A. is a megalopolis. > If your person lived at my town, Torrance, for example, > there could be an obit in my local paper. But I only > look at those CALOSANG posts with interesting subject > lines. Some of the small papers in the outlying cities > do print obits oftener than hardly ever > > There are also catalogs listing local papers at > your own library, and your own librarian can probably > help you to get films of those papers by interlibrary > loan. People can have at it themselves, which is the > fun part of genealogy -- the do-it-yourself; I never > have understood why folks don't just have at it. We > live in a too push-button world. > > Lester Powers > > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.