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/343.1 Message Board Post: Sharon: I haven't found an obituary, but have found Nellie Mabel Owen in the California death index. There may be an error in the index, however. It shows her mother's maiden name as Owens and her father's surname as Shaw. I cannot find her in the Social Security Death Index, but it may be too recent for that to have appeared yet. Her social security number was 553267376. You could contact social security to find her address when it was issued, and it should also have the correct names of her parents, and where she was born. Unfortunately that information probably wont' be any news to you, but where she lived when she got her card might. The next time I go to the county recorder's office, I can check and see if there is anything on film. There was no probate filed in the matter of her death in Ventura County. (These are all searchable on line). Sorry I couldn't find more sitting at the computer. Regards, Diana, Ventura County, CA