Importance Of Obituary Searches For The Public

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 never talked about her family too much. She had left California when she was seventeen, and moved to Boston, where she met my father. I never found out exactly why she left, or much about her life in California at all. I did know that she had lots of cousins, and a sister and brother that I had never met.

I figured that death records would be a good place to start. I mean, not everybody has a huge presence in the media, lots of people never appear in any newspapers or on the internet, but everybody is born and everybody dies eventually. So I figure that obituary searches are a good way to cover a vast number of people.

I was absolutely right. It turned out that my mother's father had died only a few months earlier than she had. His obituary was extensive, and I loved learning about the grandfather who had been a stranger to me.

At the end of the obituary, there was a list of my grandfather's surviving relatives. This part was extremely helpful to me. I now knew the names of many of my cousins, and best of all I learned that my aunt and uncle were both alive and living in California!

Once I learned that they were alive and living in California, it was pretty easy to track them down. Since then, I have traveled to California to visit them, and they have come to Boston to meet my family. I can't believe how efficient this process was, and how much information I stumbled upon just by looking at the California death records.

by: Helen Brown.

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