This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AY.2ADE/373.1.1 Message Board Post: Stockton is the county seat of San Joaquin county, one of the 58 counties in California. It's about 1 1/2 hours east of San Francisco in the Central Valley of California. If you go here you'll see other deaths for that surname between 1940 and 1997...... http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi