I agree, especially since he could have died in SF (in 1959), been buried there initially and moved to Colma. Since this is a Roman Catholic cemetery, they may have church records that give more information. Pat | -----Original Message----- | From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] | On Behalf Of the cohens | Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 7:54 PM | To: [email protected] | Cc: [email protected] | Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] John B. Leith - Estimated Death by Cemetery, San Mateo, | CA | | Searching the California Death Index for 1940 and after, there is not any John | Leith with a date resembling that at all, that I could see. | | It might be a good idea to also check the pre 1940 California death index. I think | this might be likely to be an indexing error, and that the resolution may have to | come by writing or calling the cemetery office. | | I had an instance where a cemetery website had a totally wrong date of death | for someone on their website. I had the obituary, called and discussed it with | them (this was on the east coast, not california) and when they checked their | records, they discovered that there was a data input error, and they corrected | their website. | | People do their best with transcriptions, but mistakes do happen, even when | someone proofreads the work. | ===== | If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots- | [email protected] and ask for the digest... | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS- | [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the | subject and the body of the message