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When my mother died of breast cancer a few months ago

, I vowed that I would try to locate some of her relatives whom I had never met. She had grown up in California, as a part of a very large family. I wasn't sure where to start, but eventually I came upon the idea of searching the California Death Records.

My mother kept very quiet about her family most of the time. It seemed as though she had left them behind completely when she moved with my father to Boston. She mentioned that she had a brother, a sister, and many cousins, but she had been estranged from them as long as I could remember. I wanted to know more about them, and more about her life when she was growing up.

I didn't know where to begin looking for information on the family. I thought of doing web searches, but many times that only brings up people who are in the public eye in some way. I figured that everybody is born, and everybody eventually dies, so death records might be a good start. I figured that obituary searches might provide the best information.

Following my friend's advice certainly paid off. After a couple of searches, I found my grandfather's obituary and learned that he had died just a few months prior to my mother's death. Through the obituary, I learned a bit about the life of my mother's father.

Besides providing the person's life story, obituaries often list the names of relatives who have survived them. That is how I came to know the names of many of my mother's cousins, and found out that her brother and sister were still living in California!

Once I learned which city they were in, I didn't have much trouble tracking them down. They were delighted that I'd found them, and they soon came to visit me in Boston and to meet my family. Since then, I have flown to California to visit them. I am so glad that my friend advised me to check the California death records, and that I followed her advice.

by: Jessie Moore

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