This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CY.2ADI/230 Message Board Post: Is there anyone from the Ventura County that can get a death certificate register. I think that is what they are called. I am looking for a Manuel Renal BUSTOS who died 27 Dec 1997 On the index it lists his mom as SEPULVER and I am trying to see if there is a link. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Michelle@usaonline.net

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/CY.2ADI/229 Message Board Post: I am trying to locate Lois McKinstry, last known address; 14659 Round Valley Dr. Sherman Oaks, CA. I need to find her as she is a sister to my aunt, Ida May Lowe (Vail) now deceased. Any information on this lady, please notify me. Ida may Lowe also had a daughter named Carol Jane Lowe who is now married and I do not know her married name. I know Lois McKinstry was the informant at my aunt's death...Ray

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CY.2ADI/228 Message Board Post: There's a new website covering neighboring Santa Barbara County burials. URL: www.sbgraves.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FIELDS, CLEVENGER, BOYTS, MCDANIEL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CY.2ADI/227 Message Board Post: Searching for info about Billy Jack FIELDS b est 1923 and Eugene (Gene) FIELDS b est 1921. I think they were both born in Missouri. Their parents were Ralph and Edith G. FIELDS. Their grandfather, John W. FIELDS died Apr 1951 in Riverside, CA when their father, Ralph, was living in Alameda, CA. Their step-grandmother, Mattie Sophia FIELDS died in Riverside, CA in Aug 1961. According to Ralph' FIELDS' obituary, his son Billy Jack was living in "Vantorro", CA in 1984 but I can't find such a city. Could it be Vacaville or Ventura, CA where he lived? This is what their father's obituary said: "Services for Ralph Fields, 79, Galena, were at 10 a.m. Tuesday, January 31 in Ralph Thieme Chapel in Springfield. Burial was in Maplewood Park, Springfield. Mr. Fields died Sunday, January 29, 1984 in a Kansas City hospital after a short illness. A Springfield resident most of his life, he was a retired auto mechanic. He was a member of the Church of Christ in Galena. Survivors include two sons, Gene of Lenexa, Kansas, and Billy Jack of Vantorro, Calif.; and a half sister, Maude Clevenger, of Thayer, Missouri" . --end-- Please contact: Mary K. Ward, 1432 Yeardley Drive, Richmond, Virginia 23225; 804-232-9338. Thanks!

Hi all; Time for our weekly "What's Happening" on the website. So here is what is going on: First of all, those that have WebTV have been having problems accessing the site as it is too wide for their set. We are aware of this, although there is nothing that we can do as the template and the amount of information on it are too wide. This is similar to the several other sites that you cannot access for the same reason. I apologize for this inconvenience, but there is no way to correct this. * * * * * Now for the good stuff... The following counties or partials have been completed: Butte Book One Colusa Book One and Two Los Angeles Book Two Madera Marin Book One and Two Mariposa Mendocino Riverside San Benito San Bernardino Book One San Diego The following Counties are in the transcriptions phase: Amador Butte Book Two Humboldt Kern Los Angeles Books One, Three, Four, Five and Six Nevada Orange Placer San Bernardino Book Two San Francisco Books One and Two San Luis Obispo Santa Barbara Siskiyou Sutter Tehama Tulare The counties that have been ordered are: Fresno Lake Modoc Shasta Yolo Yuba IF YOU DO NOT SEE THE COUNTY YOU ARE LOOKING FOR, GO TO THE WEBSITE AND THE FRONT PAGE WILL TELL YOU THE STATUS OF THAT COUNTY. * * * * * Several people have asked if we would do lookups. Unfortunately, our answer has to be no as the records are spread all over the US in various stages of transcription. Also, unfortunately, you will have to wait till they are online. The volunteers are typing as fast as their little fingers can go and we are getting the records online within days of completion of a book or county. Sorry, but you have waited this long, a little longer and you can look. * * * * * Speaking of volunteers, we have over 100 working on this project. Understand that these records are old (100+ years) and sometimes hard to read. Also understand that we think this project is really important because the records are only required to be kept from 1905 forward. Anything before that time can be gotten rid of WITHOUT NOTICE because they were not required. One we have them online, they cannot take them away from us and they are free for the looking. All of our volunteers are incredibly special people to help with this project and donate their time and efforts. Periodically there are a few that really stand out and I think they deserve special mention. First is Betty Vickroy. Betty must have the fastest fingers in town. She has completed six full batches and is still going. She has worked in San Diego, Riverside, Los Angeles and Nevada counties, as well as typed ALL of Marin county. She is my "pinch hitter" when I only need one more batch in a county or when somebody has given up on trying to transcribe a certain batch. She is one incredible lady and GREATLY appreciated by all. We also have Sharon Dulcich, who not only got us access to Kern County records, but photo'd all of them and now is transcribing all of them. She deserves a definite extra pat on the back for all this effort that she has put forth. We have Dorothy Oksner, who not only helped to sponsor Santa Barbara County, but is coordinating the genealogical society there to do all the transcribing and staying on top of them all to help to make sure that all is going well. Thank you Dorothy for all you are doing. Beverly Stone has been working with El Dorado County, which she accessed the records for and is currently transcribing all by herself. She is also working with Sacramento county to get copies of those registers for us so that we can get those transcribed and online as well. Thank you Beverly for all your work. There are several others...including those who don't even live in California. We have transcribers in Washington, Nevada, Oklahoma, Virginia, Arizona, Kansas, Idaho, Utah, Missouri, Oregon and Louisiana. And we have received donations from all over the world for this project. We thank you all for your wonderful help and generous time. We are currently working with Richard Finn, President of the Livermore-Amador Genealogical Society to sponsor and transcribe the balance of the records for Alameda county. We hope this will turn out as well. * * * * * Donations for this project can be sent to the myself, the project coordinator at the address below. There is lots more to do and funding is required to cover the costs of copies of these records and postage to get the info to the transcriptionists. Your help, no matter how big or little, is desperately needed and incredibly appreciated. * * * * * For those of you that still do not know about the project, let me give you a brief rundown. We are working on getting all the records, from all counties, for the pre-1905 period online. We are currently working on the deaths and then will be working on the marriages and birth records. The website can be viewed at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cabf1905 We have been working on the project since the beginning of the year (just a little over two months) and have managed to get quite a bit done, thanks to all the donors and volunteer transcriptionists. If you think you can help, feel free to contact me by email. So....that is all for another week. Will keep you posted as new counties go online, etc. Till next week, Donna Bradley Project Coordinator Pre-1905 Project P. O. Box 391368 Anza, CA 92539-1368 mbs@inland.net http://www.rootsweb.com/~cabf1905<<<<

>Just to let you know....Los Angeles Book Two is online. > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~cabf1905 > >Donna >

>San Benito County is now online > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~cabf1905 > >donna >

Forwarded from another list just passing info along... The 88 volumes of the Diccionario Heraldico y Genealogico de Appellidos Españoles y Americanos, library of congress call number CR2142.G3 contains some 15,000 Hispanic surnames with a history of the surname, coat of arms, plus a bibliography for further research. This is a gold mine. Visit the library of congress online and perform a search of the index. http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/geneal/index_gc.html Do not use accents when submitting a search, it confuses the search engine.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PHILBROOK/MORGAN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CY.2ADI/226 Message Board Post: Searching for the families of Ignatius and America/Americus MORGAN Philbrook elmorgan@peoplepc.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shelton/Howser Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CY.2ADI/225 Message Board Post: Searching for the families of William Shelton and Inza Hazel KINSEY Shelton

>Hi all; >Well, things are really moving. I know that you do not see that from your point of view, but they really are from this end. We now have over 100 people working on the project and still room for more. Online, you will note are the following counties or partial counties: > >Butte County Book One >Colusa County Book One and Two >Madera County >Marin County Book One and Two >Mariposa County Book One >Mendocino County >Riverside County >San Bernardino County Book One >San Diego County > >Now for behind the scenes: >The following counties are currently being transcribed: > >Amador County >Oakland City >Butte County Book Two >Humboldt County Book One and Two >Kern County >Los Angeles County Books 1-6 >Mariposa County Book Two >Nevada County >Placer County >San Benito County >San Bernardino County Book Two >San Francisco County Books One and Two >San Luis Obispo County >Santa Barbara County >Siskiyou County >Tehama County >Tulare County > >The following counties have been funded and ordered: > >Lake County >Modoc County >Shasta County >Yuba County > >Richard Finn and the Livermore-Amador Genealogical Society has just agreed to fund and transcribe the Alameda County records so those will soon be in the works. > >Harleigh Winkler and the Calaveras Genealogical Society has been discussing helping with Calaveras County, but no commitment yet. > >R. Scott Sherman and the Tehama County Genealogical and Historical Society has expressed interest in helping with Tehama County, but no commitment yet. > >Laura Tyler has offered the Yuba County marriages 1850-1920, when we get to the marriages, which will be when the deaths are completed. > >The following counties are in desperate need of funding and donations: > >San Francisco Book 3-? for years 1873-1905 (1865-1873 om transcription) >Orange County >Klamath County >Fresno County >Del Norte County >Santa Cruz County > >Donations are used for copying of records and postage only. They can be made to the Project Coordinator at the address below. Much needed and greatly appreciated is anything that you can offer. > >The following counties are still pending availability of records. Anyone that can help in these counties is greatly needed: > >Kings County >Napa County >San Mateo County >Solano County >Sonoma County >Stanislaus County >Ventura County > >The rest of the counties, we can get the records, but we just haven't gotten that far yet. Funding for those counties is gladly accepted and will put their records into motion for the process of getting them online. > >There has been LOTS of interest in the San Francisco records that we have. As we said previously, we have in excess of 200,000 death records for the period of 1865-1905 that we are transcribing and putting online. We have just started with these and they are definitely a gold mine of information. Unfortunately, as with all counties, we cannot do lookups on the records while they are in the transcription phase as the records are spread all over the US in transcriptiion. We are working as fast as we can to get all the records online and we are very aware of the demand. Please be patient. > >Thank you to all that have been helping with the project. This is really going much faster than I ever dreamed of. I recently received an email from a group in Louisiana who have been working for years on their records to get them online. They were impressed with our progress considering the time since we started (2 months ago). We could not do it without all the volunteers, donors, and the support that we have been getting from all. Thanks to all of your.... > >Till next week > >Donna Bradley >Pre-1905 Project Coordinator >P. O. Box 391368 >Anza, CA 92539-1368 > >website address: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cabf1905 >Thank you for visiting our website. > > > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CY.2ADI/224 Message Board Post: Hello! Hopefully someone will read this and be able to help me. Has anyone ever heard of the certificates that old-timers used to receive for reaching the grand old age of 100 years old? Apparently a certificate was issued to my great-grandmother and I'd like to get a copy of it. It was issued by the city of Los Angeles and it would have been in the 1950's. I don't know the real name of these certificates (I made the title up because I can't think of anything else to call them.) Does anyone know what office might have issued these certificates out and where I can find them to see if they made copies of them? It's a long shot, but I hope that someone can help me. Thanks, Danielle

>Hi all; >Weekly update time for the pre-1905 project. For those that are not aware of the project, we are entering the vital statistic information for the period of statehood (1850) to 1905 (time of CADI and CABI). > >First of all, I would like to thank those that have sponsored counties by donating sufficient funds to acquire the copies of the death records for a given county. This is greatly appreciate by not only those of us working on the project, but soon will be appreciated by all those who will have the records online. Thank you ever so much for your help. > >Secondly, I would like to thank all those that are volunteering on this project. We now have close to 100 persons volunteering in areas of acquiring records, transcribing records, working with county recorders, etc; then there is my #2s, Steve and Laura who have been indispensible in their undying work on the project, website and all the technical support they have given. This project would not be as far along as it is if it weren't for the two of them. We all owe them alot. > >Now, for what is happening on the project: > >We have acquired some of the records for San Francisco County. I have to admit that I was totally dumbfounded when I realized the number of records that are available for pre-1906 earthquake because I was under the impression that alot of the records were gone and there was very little available. This may be partially true in that alot of the records burned, but the records that I have just gotten access to have changed my mind on what is available. Let me explain. There are 6 microfilms of just death records that I have acquired. In those films are records of over 200,000 deaths in San Francisco County for the period of 1863-1903. That is more than in any other county in the state, and may be equivalent to all other counties combined. This is alot and will take some time and lots of donations to make all the copies. At 40 entries per page, that is over 5000 copies to be made at .35-.50 per page. That means the cost factor for San Francisco county alone will be in excess of $2000.00 and that is before postage costs to get these records to the transcribers. This means we will need lots of donations. This is where we scream HELP, HELP, HELP. We need your help on this. Donations are desperately needed. They can be sent to me at the address below. > >As far as the other counties are concerned, we will be doing them simultaneously to the time we are working on San Francisco. Although about 75% of our transcribers will be working San Francisco, the other 25% will be working on the other counties. We have had some people sponsor some counties and those copies will be made and transcribed. We have the Genealogical Society that will be working on Santa Barbara County. We have our precious Janie and Elaine who will be working Shasta County (in addition to others if needed). We have a husband-wife team doing Butte County, Beverly Stone working El Dorado County, Sharon Dulcich photoing and transcribing Kern County, although she will be getting some additional help in the transcription portion of this. Betty Vickroy has just finished Marin County and book two will be online, probably this week. Modoc County has been funded and will be in the transcription phase as soon as the records come in (they have been ordered). Jacqui Marcela is transcribing Placer County. Beverly Stone is working on accessing the Sacramento County Records; Dee Sardoch is currently transcribing San Benito County; Barbara Erden is transcribing San Luis Obispo; Laura Melton is transcribing Siskiyou County; Elvina Fernandez is working on acquiring the ordered Tulare County records which will be transcribed by her and the Sequoia Genealogical Society; Steven Miller is transcribing Mariposa County and on and on and on. We have gotten several genealogical societies that have expressed interest in helping us with funding as well as with transcription of records. > >Some of the counties that will be transcribed in the very near future, pending funding or records orders coming in are: > >Shasta County >Modoc County >Del Norte County >Fresno County >Lake County >Modoc County >Monterey County >Orange County >Klamath County >Santa Cruz >and more.... > >And these will all be done during the same time in which Los Angeles County and San Francisco Counties (the two largest) are being done. Counties are going online within 7-10 days of completion of the transcription. We only started this project in January and already have all or part of 8 counties online. That means there are 51 more to be completed. > >For those of you that have read the "History of the Project" on the website, I would like to share this with you. I recently contacted Megan Smolenyak, the original grantor of funds for the project, to give her the website so that she could take a look at what she had started. I recently got this reaction from her in regards to what has been done and wanted to share it with you. > > >"Hi Donna, > >All I have to say is wow, Wow, WOW!!! I just went and checked the link you >sent and was blown away! You give me so much credit, but you're the one who >deserves it! I can't believe how much you've done with so little. Thanks >for inspiring me further in my grants. You can't believe how good it makes >me feel to think that I had even a tiny role in nudging you! I'm going to >add a brief update to my site, including a link. > >Thanks so much for telling me all this and for all your incredible efforts! >The genealogical world needs more folks like you! > >Take care, >Megan" > >Megan gives grants to genealogical projects of worth and thought this project was worthy, back in the days when I was just talking about doing San Diego County. She is a gift to the genealogical world. Not only does she give out grants monthly, but she has written several articles for Ancestry Magazine as well as others and speaks regularly on this topic. This is only one of several "good words" that we have gotten on the project and they are all appreciated. > >Finally, although not least, I would like to thank all of those that have donated cash, checks, postage, etc. to the project. Although we are not completely "out of the woods" on the project because of so much more that we will be needing, we are now at least seeing a potential of getting all the records that we need with your continued help in this area. Although I hate to admit it, there was a time when I was trying desperately to keep the project going with little to nothing to work with and depleting my own finances in the process. Your continued support has made me see "a light at the end of the tunnel" and we will make it with all that we need and desire to do here. I cannot say thank you enough and pray for the continued support of all. You have no idea how much your donations help, regardless of the size. On an average, every penny you send adds one more entry online for those who need it. We acknowledge all of you, both here and on your special page on the website. You deserve an extra special pat on the back for we could not do this without the financial support. > >For those wishing to donate to the project. Please make checks out to, or send funding or postage to me at my address below. We keep a FULL accounting of all funds updated daily which is available upon request. Donations pay only for copy fees and postage. Steve and Laura Melton and I are absorbing all other costs (phone calls, travel, programs, etc). > >The website can be viewed at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cabf1905 > >Thank you...and till next week... >Donna Bradley >Project Coordinator >Pre-1905 California Project >P. O. Box 391368 >Anza, CA 92539-1368 > > > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CY.2ADI/223 Message Board Post: Ida May Lowe was my aunt. Her husband was Ira Charles Lowe who is burried in the National Cemetery at Jefferson Barracks, near St. Louis, MO. She passed away at Thousand Oaks, CA on July 6, 1992. She has a daughter named Carol. Carol is the only living member of the family left. I think she might have married but we don't know. There must have been an obit. in the papers of Thousand Oaks or Ventura Co. Can someone please check the newspaper archives and see. I will gladely pay for your time... Thank you so much for any information... Ray

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hall, Cummings, Sewell, Cullen, Mungari Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CY.2ADI/222 Message Board Post: Chrissie passed 4 Dec 2001(Ventura, Vta. Co, CA) according to SSDI. Would appreciate her obit. Trying to locate her 3 sons. Scott Menick, Christopher Smith and Jordan Pace. Her brother, Douglas Cummings Hall's son, Doug Jr. And her brother, Charles Louis Hall III's daughters, Chellene and Carissa have asked me to help locate any living relatives. Thank you for any info.

>We now have Colusa County Book Two online and Mendocino County. >Enjoy!!!!! > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~cabf1905 > >Donna >

>Hi all; >Time for our weekly update on the project. I think we are still sane. We want to thank all those that have made donations to the project. They are GREATLY appreciated and much needed. > >We now have over 80 transcriptionists. They are typing as fast as the records are coming in the door. It definitely has kept Laura, Steve and I busy staying on top of everything. This project is moving so much faster than we ever dreamed. We could not do it without all of those transcriptionists, volunteers and my wonderful #2s, Steve and Laura. > >For those of you who are reading this update for the first time, this is the online pre-1905 death records for all counties in California. Later, we hope to do the marriages and births, but right now, our goal is to complete the deaths. > >We have had several people that have emailed me with the wonderful stories of finding relatives on the lists...some having searched for several years for death dates of ancestors. It is really fantastic to get these stories and makes it worth all the work that is entailed in this project. We have shared some of them with all the volunteers so that they can appreciate them as well. Thank you to those of you that have shared your stories. > >We currently have the following counties distributed and in transcription: > >San Bernardino County Book Two >Los Angeles County, Books One, Two, Three, Four, Five and Six >Marin County Book Two >Colusa County Book Two >Humboldt County Book One and Two >Butte County Book Two >Mendocino County >San Luis Obispo >Placer County >El Dorado County >Amador County >Nevada County >Klamath County >Mariposa County >City of Oakland >San Benito County >Siskiyou County >Kern County > > >The website address is: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~cabf1905 > >We have the following already online: > >Butte County Book One >Colusa County Book One >Madera County >Marin County Book One >Riverside County >San Bernardino County Book One >San Diego County > >The following counties are on the verge of being placed online and should be online really soon: > >San Bernardino County Book Two >Colusa County Book Two >Marin County Book Two >Mendocino County > >We have received funding for the following counties which have been ordered and should be in transcription phase soon: > >Modoc County >Shasta County > >Undesignated donations are currently being collected for San Francisco County which is a very large number of files. As soon as we get enough to get these records, they will be distributed for transcription. Other counties that are in various pending stages are: > >Del Norte County >Fresno County >Lake County >Monterey County >Orange County >San Francisco County >Tehama County > >DONATIONS: Desperately needed. We pay about .35 - .50 per page of about 40 names for the death registers. When you calculate how many records are in a given county, you can easily see the costs factors involved. We need all the help we can get. We have some people who are sponsoring whole counties and we have others sending small checks to help. Every little bit helps and all is greatly appreciated. ALSO, postage to get the files to the transcribers is wonderful. Each packet that we send out to be transcribed averages about $1.25 in postage. This adds up to alot of postage. We have sent out over 100 packets. Please send donations to me. I am keeping accountings of all the funds for those that have any questions. These records are updated daily. We are still in the red, although, thanks to the donations received to date, there might be a light at the end of the tunnel. > >Based on the information that we have received from those that have responded to previous updates, we will be making CDs of the information that we have. Although we do not know yet, the cost for these CDs, the sale of these will be helping to fund future counties and records. We, as yet, have not determined how many counties or whether by region or alphabetically they will be placed on the CDs. This is still in the determination phase. > >I have received hundreds of emails from those that want information or just to say thank you for the project. These are all great to receive as they help us determine what you, the users, want on this website. Thank you all for your input. This project is for your FREE use. That's all for now. Till next week.... > >Donna Bradley >Pre-1905 Project Coordinator >P. O. Box 391368 >Anza, CA 92539-1368 >mbs@inland.net >http://www.rootsweb.com/~cabf1905 > >

>Just to let you know that Marin County Book One 1873-1891 deaths is now online. > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~cabf1905 > >Donna >

>San Diego County pre-1905 death records are now online. >http://www.rootsweb.com/~cabf1905 > >Enjoy >Donna Bradley >Project coordinator

>Hi all; >I have gotten several emails from people telling me that they could not access the website. That is because I goofed. The pre-1905 death records for Madera, Riverside, Butte County Book One, San Bernardino Book One can be seen at the following CORRECT website: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~cabf1905 > >Sorry for the confusion. >Donna >