The West Palm Beach Library has a website. I sent them email once and requested a listing in the City Directory. They copied it and sent it to me. Am glad to see you, Brian Michaels, so active on this list. I subscribed to Florida Living Magazine just to get your articles. They were a big help to a beginning genealogist. Thank you. Louise Sullivan -----Original Message----- From: Brian E. Michaels <michaels_b@popmail.firn.edu> To: FLORIDA-L@rootsweb.com <FLORIDA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 11:10 AM Subject: Re: New to lsit/Death index for 1960's? >Donna, > >If it's the right hit, Jim was born 23 March 1886 and died in West Palm >Beach. Have you gotten a death certificate or an obituary? Either might >help narrow your search. Once you have the death cert. and know the >funeral director and the place of burial, either or both might prove >helpful. > >A city directory search for West Palm Beach could give you an address >for the 1935 STATE census, and the point at which Lillie is no longer >listed w/Jim or he becomes a "wid." entry can narrow the search still >further. (Are you aware that there are a Palm Beach and a West Palm >Beach as well as Palm Beach County--three different record venues? SSI >says Jim d. WEST Palm Beach.) > >Do you know whether Lillie drove a car? FL driver license records might >help, depending on a lot of factors, but they're public records. > >Have you tracked Harry? Does he have descendants who might know anything >of Jim/Lillie? SSI lists 8 CA Harry Websters, 2 in LA, one born too late >(1917). The other was b. 1881, good likelihood on date, but had IOWA SS >card. Have you any sources to find survivors? Sometimes family letters >or diaries or Bibles may reveal in-laws' and spouses' deaths, of course. > >HELP! ANYBODY IN/NEAR WEST PALM have or know of a cemetery survey or >index that might help us find Jim & Lillie? > >Donna, I'd be glad to try to help w/death records if you can narrow the >search a bit further. > >Yes, there are marriage indexes in each county pre-1927 and statewide >after 6 June 1927. The marriages statewide are on fiche with the death >and divorce records. It might also be safe to check for a divorce; many >"widow" and "widower" listings from earlier, more "sensitive," years >were the result of divorce, not death. Probably not in this case, but... >SSI shows one Florida Lillie Webster who d. 1980 and was about correct >age. > >--Brian Michaels >******************************************** > Tom & Donna Cino wrote: >> >> Hello list, >> I have been lurking in the background for a bit now, and this is my first posting. I have only one family that >> was in Florida, an Arthur James (Jim)WEBSTER and his wife Lillie (Lily). Jim was born in Bletchley, Bucks, >> England and along with most of his other siblings emmigrated to Canada. Jim and his brother Harry moved to Los >> Angeles after the second World War. Jim met Lillie (Lily) in Los Angeles (can find no marriage there) and I >> believe they moved to West Palm Beach about the 1830's. They had no children. Jim died May 9th, 1968 and was a >> widower. I have as yet been unable to trace Lillie and would love to be able to find their marriage date and >> the date of Lillie's death. I have looked in SSI but have not found any that seem to match. >> I have seen people mentioning a death index and wonder if it's available for checking in the later years of say >> 1950's to early 1970's? If these are available is there sks who could check these for me for possible dates? I >> live in Canada, so I have a hard time getting any USA info. >> PS are there any marriage indexs? >> Good hunting to all....Donna B.C., Canada :0) > >