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A few months ago, after my mother died of cancer, I decided that I wanted to find out more information about some of my relatives. I knew that my mother had come from a big family, and that she had grown up in California. I wasn’t sure what kind of information I was looking for, but I eventually I decided to look at 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 definitely was not mistaken. I found my mother’s father’s obituary pretty quickly, after only a few searches. Surprisingly, he had died only a few months before my mother. It was wonderful to learn a little bit about the life of a grandfather I had never met.
The most helpful thing about obituary searches is the list of surviving relatives. That’s how I found the names of several my mom’s cousins, and how I found out that her sister and brother were still alive!
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.
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