Hi List, If a person was cremated according to their death certificate yet it lists the name of a cemetery, would there still be a headstone? If the answer is - more than likely yes - then if possible, I would like to get a picture of headstone. Hopefully, she will be buried with husband. I only have his last name but I have her full name and the name of the cemetery and the mortuary. This cemetery is probably located in Oxnard. Thanks for all your help. Sue in Sunny Florida macduff@infi.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ratzlaff Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CY.2ADI/334 Message Board Post: I'm interested in getting an obituary for Adem H Ratzlaff b, Aug 8, 1893 d. Jun 8, 1994 who died in Ventura Co., CA. The last residence known was Newbury Park, CA.. Mary Ratzlaff, his wife, also resided there and as born Nov 23, 1902 and died dec 1985- would like an obit for Mary also. thanks, ed graves, jr

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/333 Message Board Post: i'm trying to locate, for genealogy purposes, any descendants of donald russell mentor in ventura co., probably in simi valley as that was the last known address. thanks nancy

Hi List, I am trying to get an obit for Grace A. (Ailene) Clark. She died 27 Aug. 1981, probably in Oxnard. I know she lived there most of her life. She was 80 years old when she died. I would like to make sure I have the correct person before I order her death certificate. If you can help, please contact me at my private e-mail. Sue in Sunny Florida macduff@infi.net

List: Could I please get a lookup for John Alexander Loftin and wife Katherine( Cooper) Loftin. They should have 4 or 5 children with them by then. I found a son Cleophus Loftin who died in Ventura Co. on Sep. 3, 1975. I can't seem to find his parents anywhere!. Thanks for your time Bob Loftin

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/332 Message Board Post: If you're from Southern California, you know how hard it is to find an obit here. I received a couple dozen requests a month as an obituary lookup volunteer in Los Angeles. It was frustrating, because I could successfully complete only a few of the requests. Either the requestor gave incomplete information ("The SSDI says he died in Zip Code 90047 in June 1963") or downright wrong information ("My mother said she lived somewhere in L.A." but it turned out it was really Newport Beach, Orange County). I disappointed my requestors, and I became discouraged and considered quitting doing lookups because I felt bad when I couldn't help. Instead of quitting, another SoCal obit researcher and I decided to do something about the situation. For the past couple of weeks, instead of doing lookups, we spent our volunteer time to develop a free website that includes: 1. Step-by-step instructions on how to plan an obit search (including a form to organize your search). 2. Where to get correct death information (vital records) before requesting a lookup. 3. Lists of libraries that have newspaper microfilms, and info on their lookup policies. 4. Inventory of newspapers (including dates) for about 15-20 libraries, including the Los Angeles Public Library. WE HAVE A LOT MORE TO DO! 5. Links to Southern California lookup volunteers. 6. Creative hints on other ways to find obituaries, and not just for Southern California. The site is housed on the Rootweb free pages area, and the URL is: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~socalobituaries/ This information is free. This is a volunteer effort that I hope will have several outcomes: 1. Reduce the number of unsuccessful lookups. 2. Route lookup requests to libraries and others volunteers. 3. Make it easier for everyone to find obituaries. NOTE: Re that WE HAVE A LOT MORE TO DO. We want to include as many libraries as possible. Our Los Angeles information is good, our Orange County listings are okay, and our Ventura, San Diego, San Bernardino and Riverside information is scarce. We also want to expand into other surrounding counties, but all of that will take help from people in those areas. There are lots of places on the website to ~volunteer~ but feel free to drop a line and ask how you can participate. I hope you will find this information useful. I'm posting this to all the Rootsweb lists in Southern California, so I hope you will accept my apologies if you receive duplicate messages.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Watts Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CY.2ADI/331 Message Board Post: Seeking information on Lorenzo H. Watts according to 1920 census he lived in Santa Paula, California.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Granados Lopez Duran Morales Yrigollen Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CY.2ADI/330 Message Board Post: Does anyone know the cemeteries in the Ventura area in 1861? The deaths of Matias Morales (three years old) and Macaria Morales (one year old) are recorded at Mission San Buenaventura, but I don't know where they could be buried. Anyone have any ideas?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CY.2ADI/329 Message Board Post: NOTE-I am not related to this family Loveland Reporter Herald (Loveland, Larimer, Colorado) Thursday Jan. 9, 2003 page B-3 James N. Scarlett, 89, formerly of Loveland, died Jan. 3, 2003, at Ventura County Medical Center in Ventura, Calif. He was born Aug. 1, 1913, in Aberdeen, S.D., to James F. and Stella Wise Scarlett. He graduated from high school in 1932 in Brookings, S.D. He married Dorothy Reif on Aug. 1, 1940, in Danville, Iowa. She preceded him in death in 2000. >From 1940 to the present, Mr. Scarlett lived in Burlington, Iowa; Littleton; Sedona, Ariz.; Loveland for 10 years and Ventura. He was employed by the Railway Express Co. in Burlington and later worked in home construction. He eventually started his own successful construction company in Littleton. Mr. Scarlett is survived by a son, Neil and wife Anne of Newbury Park, Calif.; and two grandsons. A family celebration of Mr. Scarlett’s life is planned Jan. 19 at the home of his son, Neil Scarlett. Aabbey Memorial Service in Thousand Oaks, Calif., is in charge of arrangements.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Moore, Huckaby, Pitts, Fellers/Fellows Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CY.2ADI/326.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Alice, I sent you over a brief email yesterday morning. Looks like you might not have received it. You can try reaching me at: elisabethmoore@sbcglobal.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/rw/CY.2ADI/326.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Elizabeth, I meant to say 'off board' instead of offline. Please use my email address. Thanks, Alice

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Eichorn, Lovejoy, Lockwood Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CY.2ADI/328 Message Board Post: From The Ventura County Star Free Press Ventura, California (Ventura County) Thursday, July 28, 1988 DORIS E. EICHORN Doris E. Eichorn, 76, Simi Valley, died Sunday in a Simi Valley Hospital after a brief illness. Mrs. Eichorn was born June 22, 1912, in Elba, N. Y., and was a 35-year county resident, coming from Ohio. She was retired, having worked as an inspector for Bunker-Remo in Westlake Village for 20 years. She is survived by grandson John Lockwood of Laguna Beach. Funeral services will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Reardon Simi Valley Mortuary. Burial will be in Simi Valley Cemetery. (Ed. note: Mrs. Eichorn's maiden name was LOVEJOY per the CA Death Index)

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/326.1.1 Message Board Post: Yes, Elizabeth, Agnes Payne Kinslow Huckaby was my gg grandmother. I would like to share info with you. Please contact me off line. Thanks, Alice

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Moore, Huckaby, Pitts, Fellers/Fellows Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CY.2ADI/326.1 Message Board Post: Alice, Off the top of my head I know of no online sources for these school's histories. However, I live within just a few minutes of any of them and would be glad to hunt up any information you might need. I'm assuming you may possibly be a Kinslow related to the Paynes and Huckabys in Missouri. If so those folks are all my family too.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LATHROP/GREEN/OSTRANDER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CY.2ADI/327 Message Board Post: Looking for information regarding Robert Lathrop. He was looking for Robert Frederick Lathrop, Cora Green Lathrop, Catherine Reilly, Ellen Reilly and Jessie Lathrop. Posting in 1999. Supposedly had posts to a Ventura Co. surname list. I am looking for the same people he was.

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/266.1 Message Board Post: Pat, Please Write to me at spbocek@msn.com, I have some info for you. Steve

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/326 Message Board Post: What online source(s) are available for researching the history of the schools in and near Santa Paula, CA? Particularly interested in Briggs Elementary, Isabel, Ventura Street School and Alisio (may not be spelled correctly) School in Wheeler Canyon. Thanks for any information. Alice

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Davis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CY.2ADI/325 Message Board Post: I have a group for Davis researchers and we'd love to have you join us in your search fir your Davis ancestors . Post your line share and compare data and info. with others list your connecting surnames post old photos and documents check out pour file section .I've just recently started posting on 500 group sheets on the Davis surname from Elizabeth City ,NC and other areas as well. They are a friendly group always willing to share and help others .If you have any roblems with the links you can send me with Davis group in subjrct i'll send you a dorect invite to the group . http://groups.yahoo.com/group/YourDavisGenealogy/ YourDavisGenealogy-subscribe@yahoogroups.com my webpage on some of my line i do need to do some updating on this http://www.webspawner.com/users/flamenfire2002/index.html Tela Davis Holbrook owner/moderator

I would like to find Robert Lathrop, who was doing genealogical research several years ago. He was looking for all the same people I am. I found many posts from him on the Family Connect pages, then they stopped. His web pages do not respond. He was also supposed to be on a Ventura Co. surname list. I have not been able to find that list. I think possibly he died. I would like to know if this person rings any bells or if anyone has any suggestions how to find him or his research or the surname list. I could post more specific information if anyone can help me. I believe this Robert Lathrop to be a product of my grandmother's first family, a cousin to me. My father was from her second family. I believe neither family knew about the other. I do not believe the first (Lathrop) children were raised by either parent, but I can't find out what happened to them or to my father's family. My dad claimed to be raised in and out of orphanages in Portland. He finally lived with a foster family that I knew. His mother died in California, I don't know why. This is a much fractured family that I would like to try to put back together. Loreen Wells loreenwl@open.org

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hays/Hayes/Hase; Cook,Bates, Dobbs,Fenner, Brill, Bryant, Buck, Cazadd Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CY.2ADI/324 Message Board Post: Looking for descendants of WALTER E. HAYES (b. 1885, Ind. Terr. or TX, d. 1968, Ventura Co.) and EMMA TREECE HAYES (b. 1887 in AR, d. 1962, Ventura Co.) who came to Ventura Co. from Texas about 1916.Walter was an "electrical worker." They lived on Mesa Dr. in Meiners Oaks. They had four sons. Eldest son WILBURN E. HAYES (b. 1910, d.1979, Ventura Co.) married HELEN. They had at least two children who probably attended Nordhof High School in the 1950's: PATRICIA LOUISE HAYES, (b. abt. 1935) and ROBERT EUGENE HAYES, (b. abt. 1937). They lived on North Blanche St. The other children are: LLOYD F. HAYES, (b. 1913 in TX, d. 1977 in Ventura Co.); JAMES SAGER HAYES, (b. 1916 in CA, d. 1968, Ventura Co., CA); & LEWIS E. HAYES, (b. 1921, Ventura Co., CA, d. 1942 in WW2.) The younger boys probably attended Ventura High School in the 1930's. Any help appreciated. babscook@attbi.com