Darlene; Found a death notice for him. Also got his DC transcribed: San Diego 210-56 Joseph Ursino Jr. 4670 Conrad St., San Diego, CA Died: 1/12/1985, 3:20 pm, at home male, caucasian, SS#562-52-9687, married, age 44, owners agent for Aero-Crete construction x 24 years Spouse: Patricia Lawrence Birth: 4/19/1940, WA FA: Joseph Ursino, WA MO: Angelina Simone, CA Cause: Brain Laceration and hemorrhage (severe), gunshot wound - head - suicide, self inflicted .38 cal. revolver gunshot wound - head. DR: David J. Stark, coroner Mortuary: Neptune Society of San Diego Cremation: 1/14/1985, Lenada, Inc., El Cajon, CA Informant: Spouse There were only a few Ursino family members in the computer, so I listed their death dates here in case they are related. Angelo Ursino 6/1/1974 Angelo Michael Ursino Jr. 8/3/1947 Angelo Michele Ursino 4/25/1975 Anna Ursino 4/4/1941 Helena Inez Ursino 3/31/1982 Ida Wilhelmina Ursino 8/18/1980 Lucille Mahala Ursino 6/17/1954 Lucy Guisti Ursino 11/20/1981 Maria Michele Ursino 7/4/1990 Nicodemo Ursino 10/29/1961 Ruth Maxine Ursino 7/21/1988 Vito Gazio Ursino 3/3/1973 Send me your snail mail address and I will send you the death notice with descendants listed. Donna At 08:38 AM 2/22/01 -0800, Darlene M Parissi wrote: >The Jr. is his son. Yes, I'd like to have an obit and DCT on the Jr. > >Thank you! > >Darlene >In search of Surnames: Coppi, Priami, White, French, McCarty, >Menchini, Tuvo, Wallack, Byrne, Johnson, Ferrari, Cushman, >Wojciechowski, Lewicka, Hammons, Wurm, Vanderpool, Barnes, Graham, Brown, >Marsalli, Nicholas, De La Vigne, Ver Planck, Resor, >Dunning, McGuire, Murphy. > >________________________________________________________________ >GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! >Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! >Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: >http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > >

Where would one write to see if probate records exist for a gentleman who died in Los Angeles county in 1931? Thanks Jackie

Donna; On the agenda for next week. Donna At 01:12 PM 2/28/01 -0800, Donna Madrid wrote: >Can someone please lookup an obit for me. Morgan RIES died 6/1/87 San >Diego, 76-78 years old. > >Thank you. Donna Madrid > > >

The barn still exists. When I retired ten years ago at the tender age of 54 I went there. It's a film museum now. Not necessarily at the same location, I don't remember where it is, but it's there somewhere in Hollywood. Dave Hug in Bodfish, CA -----Original Message----- From: GLRadcliffe@aol.com <GLRadcliffe@aol.com> To: SOCAL-L@rootsweb.com <SOCAL-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 6:32 AM Subject: FAMOUS PLAYERS - LASKY >>> Upon a preliminary look-see, "Famous Players" was >also known as the "DeMille and Lasky Barn." If the name >DeMille sounds familiar, yes I believe this is the >Cecil B. DeMille type of DeMille, as DeMilles go. Your >great grandfather's "Famous Players" later became >---> Paramount Studios. <--- >==================== >The "barn" at Selma and Vine was where "The Squaw Man" was filmed. >It's acknowledged as the first full-length film shot in Hollywood. Later, >my doctor's office was there. > >Jesse Lasky had two sons. One became a writer and made his living >in Hollywood. The other was an animal fancier specializing in birds. >When I last spoke to him, he was building a room on Don Ho's house >in Hawaii that he was also filling with hummingbirds. > >The Laskys were fabulously rich until Jesse was kicked out as a >partner. All in all, a very sad ending. > >Gary Radcliffe > >

Is there anyone who would do me a giant favor? I have tried every way I know to contact the Glendale school system and high school about old records but no reply. If you would be willing to help me by making a telephone call, please contact me off-list. Thanks Jackie

The Famous Players motion picture studio: Jesse L. Lasky, together with Cecil B. DeMille, Samuel Goldfish (later changed to Goldwyn), and Arthur Friend, founded the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company at New York City in 1913 to produce motion pictures. They moved to Hollywood late in 1913 and set up at what is sometimes called the "DeMille and Lasky Barn" at the corner of Selma and Vine. The venture was a success, and in 1914 Lasky's Feature Play Company allied with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company to have their movies distributed by Paramount Pictures, a new company led by theater owner William W. Hodkinson. Two years later, in 1916, Lasky's Feature Play Company and Zukor's Famous Players Film Company merged to form the Famous Players- Lasky Corp. DeMille left the company to form his own Cecil B. DeMille Productions in 1922. The company’s acreage grew rapidly from its first rental space in a barn up to two city blocks, and in 1926 it relocated from its old site at Selma and Vine to new quarters at Marathon and Van Ness. The original barn was moved to the new site, and it was kept by the company until 1982, when it was given to a preservationist society, Hollywood Heritage. Today, the barn is The Hollywood Studio Museum, 2100 N. Highland, Hollywood, phone (323) 874-BARN. (For the barn’s whereabouts, see "The Los Angeles Times" newspaper, March 29, 1993, p. B-3, with a mediocre photo, as discovered by SOCAL-L listmember Karla Everett; and "Los Angeles County Historical Directory," Janet I. Atkinson, McFarland & Co., publishers, Jefferson, NC, and London, 1988, p. 64.) The Famous Players-Lasky Corp. eventually absorbed its ally Paramount Pictures as well as Artcraft Pictures, and in 1927 the Famous Players-Lasky Corp. was renamed as Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp.; in 1930[?] its name was changed again to Paramount Publix; and in 1935[?] its name was changed a third time to Paramount Pictures, Inc. (today Paramount Pictures Corp.). As described in the literature (with Cecil B. DeMille keeping his feet dry in a trash can): "Cecil B. DeMille, Jesse Lasky, Samuel Goldfish, and Arthur Friend formed the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company in New York in 1913, and persuaded Dustin Farnum, one of the biggest stars of the day, to appear in their first film, 'The Squaw Man.' DeMille, Farnum, and a small troup headed West in December to begin filming. They planned to make the film in Flagstaff, Arizona, but when they arrived, they found the scenery unsuitable for their needs, so they reboarded the train and continued on to Hollywood, where DeMille rented a portion of a small barn at the southeast corner of Vine and Selma.... "DeMille moved into one side of the barn, while the owner, Jacob Stern, kept his horses in the other half. Whenever the horses were watered, the water ran into DeMille's office and he was forced to wear galoshes or put his feet in the wastebasket.... Within eighteen months, the Lasky studio occupied the entire block and by the end of the decade it occupied two full blocks. "The Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company merged with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company in 1916 to form the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. Zukor had assembled many fine actors, including a young Canadian girl named Gladys Smith, who took the screen name Mary Pickford and became 'America's Sweetheart.' ...." Source: "Hollywood: The First Hundred Years," Bruce T. Torrence, New York Zoetrope, New York, publishers, 1982, pp. 71-72 (also pp. 99 and 102). Lester Powers lesterps@juno.com ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Hi Lester, Thank you for your response. I too thought that it might be a card parlor or something like that. Anyway, I have a copy of my greatgrandfather's, Benjamin Forrest Hadley's, WWI draft registration. He was 40 years old at the time and it lists his current employer as Famous Players Lasky Cor. and occupation as 'timekeeper'. It also has a checkmark in a box marked White and another checkmark in a box marked Citizen within another box marked Indian. I don't know what that might mean. I just happened to get this by accident from my cousin who was researching our grandmother for an adoption record. Melinda -----Original Message----- From: Lester M Powers [mailto:lesterps@juno.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 5:45 PM To: SOCAL-L@rootsweb.com Cc: Melinda Pickering Subject: Re: Famous Players Melinda Pickering asked: > Does anyone know what kind of business was "Famous > Players ..." located at Selma and Vine in Los Angeles, > CA in 1918? My g-grandfather worked there. This could perhaps turn out to be exciting, and thus my reply must begin with a scolding before getting to the good part (and the good part is GOOD!): Scolding: When will people learn to include little things like whatever "g-grandfather"'s name was? Sheesh! How are we supposed to snoop at the library with no name? Let's see, this looks like a good book here -- I'll just look in the index under "blank." Golly darn. OK. Now the good stuff. Upon a preliminary look-see, "Famous Players" was also known as the "DeMille and Lasky Barn." If the name DeMille sounds familiar, yes I believe this is the Cecil B. DeMille type of DeMille, as DeMilles go. Your great grandfather's "Famous Players" later became ---> Paramount Studios. <--- I'd say that's pretty good stuff for a family history. I would be *very* interested to know HOW you learned that great-grandfather worked at "Famous Players at Selma and Vine." There's just got to be more goodies here, though hidden. Lester Powers lesterps@juno.com PS: Yes, at first I *did* think that "Famous Players" must have been a saloon. Was I ever wrong! ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

I am desperately looking for an obit for Guy J. POWELL, who died 6 Sep 1981 while living in LaCanada and for his second wife Frances Adele WELCH POWELL who died 29 Aug 1987. Can anyone please help! Jackie

Can someone please lookup an obit for me. Morgan RIES died 6/1/87 San Diego, 76-78 years old. Thank you. Donna Madrid

>> Upon a preliminary look-see, "Famous Players" was also known as the "DeMille and Lasky Barn." If the name DeMille sounds familiar, yes I believe this is the Cecil B. DeMille type of DeMille, as DeMilles go. Your great grandfather's "Famous Players" later became ---> Paramount Studios. <--- ==================== The "barn" at Selma and Vine was where "The Squaw Man" was filmed. It's acknowledged as the first full-length film shot in Hollywood. Later, my doctor's office was there. Jesse Lasky had two sons. One became a writer and made his living in Hollywood. The other was an animal fancier specializing in birds. When I last spoke to him, he was building a room on Don Ho's house in Hawaii that he was also filling with hummingbirds. The Laskys were fabulously rich until Jesse was kicked out as a partner. All in all, a very sad ending. Gary Radcliffe

Melinda I checked at the library. Your "Famous Players" did in fact become Paramount Pictures Corporation. No doubt about it. Your great-grandfather was probably there when Mary Pickford was there. Your great-grandfather was in the movie biz, and at one of the biggies too. We're talkin' Mary Pickford, who was no trivial sweetheart. I started to write up what I found, which isn't much really. but still interesting. But a little too much of both beer and scholar's fatigue caught up with me. More later. Looks like whatever this is could be a really fascinating tale, though. Lester Powers lesterps@juno.com ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Melinda Pickering asked: > Does anyone know what kind of business was "Famous > Players ..." located at Selma and Vine in Los Angeles, > CA in 1918? My g-grandfather worked there. This could perhaps turn out to be exciting, and thus my reply must begin with a scolding before getting to the good part (and the good part is GOOD!): Scolding: When will people learn to include little things like whatever "g-grandfather"'s name was? Sheesh! How are we supposed to snoop at the library with no name? Let's see, this looks like a good book here -- I'll just look in the index under "blank." Golly darn. OK. Now the good stuff. Upon a preliminary look-see, "Famous Players" was also known as the "DeMille and Lasky Barn." If the name DeMille sounds familiar, yes I believe this is the Cecil B. DeMille type of DeMille, as DeMilles go. Your great grandfather's "Famous Players" later became ---> Paramount Studios. <--- I'd say that's pretty good stuff for a family history. I would be *very* interested to know HOW you learned that great-grandfather worked at "Famous Players at Selma and Vine." There's just got to be more goodies here, though hidden. Lester Powers lesterps@juno.com PS: Yes, at first I *did* think that "Famous Players" must have been a saloon. Was I ever wrong! ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Lots of Calif cemeteries here, most notably the National cemeteries for Veterans. Before you get involved finding (or not finding) someone there, check the page with "verification" info re the Nat. Cemeteries. My interest is in Ft. Rosecrans. They list my grandfather, but not his wife who is next to him. http://www.interment.net/us/ca/index.htm Phil Van Camp pvc@vancamp.org . ----- Original Message ----- From: steven h miller <millerz@sierratel.com> To: <CA-DEATH-INDEX-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 10:58 PM Subject: [CADI] [Fwd: Golden Gate National Cemetery] > >Just wanted to let you know that we recently published the burial records > >for Golden Gate National Cemetery, located in San Bruno. There are over > >116,000 records available for lookup: > >http://www.interment.net/data/us/ca/sanmateo/ggate/index.htm > > > >Would you mind letting your site visitors and mailing list subscribers know > >about this? > > > >Thanks! > >Steve Johnson > >Interment.net > >http://www.interment.net

William "Ross" Reed family in PA. later in Ill. census. this family is possibly origionally from Berks County. PA Thanks to all of the people that responded to my inquiry concerning this family. I found a lot of great information today. Some kind person sent this to me. Yesterday. Legonier Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, enumerated on 18 Oct. 1850 Line enumerated# Name age sex occupation, birth place 19 355 355 James Reed 50 M Farmer PA 20 Sarah " 45 F " 21 Esther " 15 F " 22 John " 13 M " student 23 Ross " 11 M " student 24 Mary " 7 F " 25 Joanna " 5 F " 26 Joseph " 3 M " ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ this family moves to Illinois by the time of the next census taking of 1860. as you can see the wife is now missing and so is son joseph. daughters johanna and Mary. 1860 Census, page 824, Industry, dwelling 3303, family 3225 Reed, James 56 m farmer 300-100 PA Hester 24 f PA John 22 m could be 25 PA Ross 19 m PA Also I think that I may have found several of Wm Ross REEDS son's, death in the index (cadi) Southern California. So, I am sending a copy to SoCal in case someone else recognizes this family. Feel free to contact me for further information. Thanks for all your help on their and my behalf. Always, Cathleen

Does anyone know what kind of business was "Famous Players ..." located at Selma and Vine in Los Angeles, CA in 1918? My g-grandfather worked there.

Dear List; Does anyone know of any place on-line for WW1 Rosters of the war dead. Or, Wall of Honor for Soldiers from California? I tried several searches and keep getting referred to Amazon.com to puchase books on the subject. Cathleen

Anyone know when the CABI will be available? Smilingangels1@aol.com wrote: > > Time to go do family history. Enjoy. -- o Genealogy: Where you confuse the dead and irritate the living. Isabell Frazier Haworth's Past Remembrance - A Gift of Love http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~isabell/

Barbara MERRICK, SSN 075-30-7418, Zip 90048, LA. Born 21 Oct 1939, died 31 Dec 1997. Middle initial may be J. Believed to be daughter of Alta Afton (NORRIS) LEISER and George Davis LEISER. Thanks, Dave Norris in VA

Time to go do family history. Enjoy.

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