Hi Vanette, I am accessing the LA Times obits through a brand new service called Proquest Obituaries. It is basically just the historic LA Time, historic Chicago Trib, historic NYTimes and 1 other paper. It is available through the Mid-Continent Library system in MO. The Red Bridge, Riverside, or Parkville branches might be close enough to be accessible to you, if you are in KS. The family genealogy center in Independence is supposed to be one of the best centers around. They also offer News Archive Elite, all of the historic papers listed above separately, and America's Obituaries from selected papers around the country, which is only contemporary. I have not had good luck with finding my people in the LA area in the LA Times. I haven't yet discovered what other papers might have obits for the 1930s - 60s. I could not find Mary Emma. These are the Outcalts who have obits. They are pretty puny, more like funeral notices: Lillian M., mother of Beatrice 11/2/06 Wm, husband of Majorie, father of Miller 10/13/56 Margery N. 02/4/64 Wilma Outcalt-Van Horn, wife of George B. Let me know if you have no access to Mid-Continent. I will give a try to Anna and Joseph, however, because you have to open each obit, with no concise listing, I make no promises in looking hard. It could be a boodle of folks. Pat On 8/8/06, VanetteHobbs@aol.com <VanetteHobbs@aol.com> wrote: > > Patricia, > > Is there a way I can access the obits in LA County? I would like to find > one for my great-great-aunt Mary Emma Outcalt who died there on Oct. 21, > 1956 > and see whether her sister and brother-in-law Joseph N. and Anna > F. Fisher > died there as well. I only have a date range on Joseph (1910-1920) and > Anna > (aft 1933, probably before 1940 as she is not on the CA death index). > > Vanette > > > ==== KSWYANDO Mailing List ==== > KSWYANDO-L Discussion List > List Administrator > John O'Brien > JohnOBrien@kc.rr.com > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >