While accessing the San Francisco Call newspaper index, I accidentally stumbled across a death notice for a 'mssing' cousin who evidentally died in San Francisco the 19th of May 1977 at age 23. I ordered a photocopy hoping to verify this was really David A. Lasater, born 1854 in Oregon. The copy did not verify the David part but did mention he was a native of Oregon, so I'm pretty sure I have the right person. I've not spent much time researching the northern California area and am hoping someone on the list can point me in a direction where I may find additional information. There doesn't appear to be many records available for this time period, at least from the sleuthing I've done online. I've read that many records were destroyed from fires resulting from the earthquake, cemeteries were uprooted-moved-headstones used for other buildings, etc. Some one was kind enough to do a lookup for me in some coroners reports but the year of 1877 was missing. I guess I am hoping to locate funeral home records, police and coroner's reports, etc, anything that might help me locate additional infomation. I appreciate any leads you might be able to give, Thanks! Vanessa Lasater Argyres

Vanessa What was the date of the paper that you found this information, and page , col. I also check the San Francisco City Directories for 1875, 1876-77 and 1877-78, he was not listed nor was any one with that last name. George --- Argyres2@aol.com wrote: > While accessing the San Francisco Call newspaper > index, I accidentally > stumbled across a death notice for a 'mssing' cousin > who evidentally died in > San Francisco the 19th of May 1977 at age 23. I > ordered a photocopy hoping to > verify this was really David A. Lasater, born 1854 > in Oregon. The copy did > not verify the David part but did mention he was a > native of Oregon, so I'm > pretty sure I have the right person. > > I've not spent much time researching the northern > California area and am > hoping someone on the list can point me in a > direction where I may find > additional information. There doesn't appear to be > many records available for > this time period, at least from the sleuthing I've > done online. I've read > that many records were destroyed from fires > resulting from the earthquake, > cemeteries were uprooted-moved-headstones used for > other buildings, etc. Some > one was kind enough to do a lookup for me in some > coroners reports but the > year of 1877 was missing. I guess I am hoping to > locate funeral home records, > police and coroner's reports, etc, anything that > might help me locate > additional infomation. > > I appreciate any leads you might be able to give, > > Thanks! > > Vanessa Lasater Argyres > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com