Obituary Lookup Volunteers
California
Please follow these guidelines when making a lookup request:
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WE NEED VOLUNTEERS - Please consider volunteering
for your area, even on a limited basis, because every lookup
helps someone.
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County | City or Town/Newspapers/Libraries, Etc. | Volunteer |
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Alameda | Oakland Public Library - E-Answer Online Reference Service | WebPage |
Alameda | Obit Lookups for Dublin, Pleasanton, and Livermore | Wendy R - |
Alameda | PLEASE READ: Exact Death Date(mo/da/yr) & City/Town Needed | Lynn T - |
Amador | Jackson, Sutter Creek - The Dispatch, Ledger and Record (1860-1900 Incomplete, 1900-Present) | Barbara M - |
Butte | Butte County Library | WebPage |
El Dorado | Library once a week on Tuesdays & can look for graves at cemeteries in Placerville most Fridays | Beverly M - |
Fresno | Fresno Newspaper Lookups, NewsBank Lookups, Historical Newspapers (Ancestry.Com) Lookups and Death Date Lookups in CADI (1905-2000) Need Approximate Dates, Middle Names are helpful | Nancy H - |
Humboldt | Obituaries and Death Records before 1941 ONLY. I am usually at the library once a week. Please give approximate year if exact date is not known. Also births before 1929 and marriages before 1964. | Darlene G - |
Kern | Tehachapi & Bakersfield only | Elizabeth W - |
Los Angeles | Whittier - Obit Lookups 1888-1930 ONLY Vital Records Index for Whittier, CA Newspapers Available |
Heatherdawn - |
Los Angeles | Obit lookups for deaths that involve accidents (car, plane, etc.), natural disasters, explosions, violent crime | Joe W - |
Los Angeles | Long Beach only!! | Liz M - |
Los Angeles | The Downey Eagle/Online Obits 09/06/1996-3/29/2002) | WebPage |
Los Angeles | Los Angeles Times - Selected Obits (6-9 months) | WebPage |
Los Angeles | Los Angeles Times Archives (1985-P). Fee for full text. | WebPage |
Mendocino | Ukiah Daily Journal, Fort Bragg Advocate, Mendocino Beacon |
Barbara W - |
Merced | Atwater, Ballico, Cressey, Delhi, Dos Palos, Livingston, Los Banos, Merced, Winton Merced Sun Star |
Alma S - |
Monterey | Monterey Bay Area: Monterey, Pacific Grove, Del Rey Oaks, Seaside, Carmel ONLY - ** Once a Month ONLY ** | Mary F - |
Nevada | Van & Diana R - | |
Orange | Orange County Public Library (Links to Obituary Resources) | WebPage |
Placer | Roseville Press Tribune (Dec. 1907 to Present) | Kathie M - |
Sacramento | Scramento Bee - Online Obits for past 365 Days | WebPage |
Sacramento | Scramento Bee - Obits Beyond 365 Days For 3 Years | WebPage |
Sacramento | California State Library Access | Ralph C - |
Sacramento | Birth, marriage and death date lookups in the Sacramento Bee Index (1857-1905) | Colleen N - |
San Bernadino | High Desert Insider Genealogy Page | WebPage |
San Diego | Escondido Public Library - Obituary and Local History Search Request Form | WebPage |
San Diego | San Diego Union (10 Oct. 1868 to Present), One name per request, Please. Must have Exact Date of Death. | Peter - |
San Francisco | San Francisco Call Database (1869-1895) Births, Deaths, and Marriages. |
WebPage |
San Francisco | San Francisco Co Genealogy - Online Databases | WebPage |
San Francisco | San Francisco Public Library - Obituary Search Request Form | WebPage |
San Luis Obispo | Obit Lookups in the Telegram-Tribune Daily, Gravestone Photos in San Luis Obispo | Sandy C - |
San Luis Obispo | Obituary lookups from Microfilm at the Public Library | Martha G - |
San Mateo | Obit Lookups in the Following Newspapers: Redwood City Tribune� Jan 1939 - Mar 1979 (monthly), San Mateo County News� Jan 1914 - Dec 1918, San Mateo County Times & Gazette� Apr 1859 - Jan 1864, San Mateo Times� 1901 - Mar 1996, San Mateo Weekly� (most recent year), San Francisco Chronicle� 1891-1953, 1973+ | Jerry S - |
Santa Barbara | Carpinteria, Goleta, Santa Barbara Headstone photos - Limit: 2 per month. |
Carell J - |
Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara Public Library Obituary Lookups |
WebPage |
Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara News Press | WebPage |
Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara Genealogical Society | WebPage |
Santa Clara | Will lookup birth, death and matrimony notices published in the San Jose, CA newspapers as follows: San Jose Evening News 23 Feb 1884through 30 Dec 1922 San Jose Mercury News 2 Jan 1886 through 31 Dec 1922 |
Nancy M - |
Santa Clara | San Jose Public Library - links to resources | Web Page |
Santa Clara | City of Palo Alto Obituaries (1890's-P) | Web Page |
Santa Clara | Mountain View Obituary Index (1967-P) | Web Page |
Santa Clara | Santa Clara County Historical and Genealogical Society. Fee for research. | Web Page |
Siskiyou | Obituary lookups: Mount Shasta Herald, October 1996-present.� Please provide month and year of death. | Mabel G - |
Sonoma | Sonoma County Library Lookups: Information on Sonoma County CAGenWeb - Browse or search for: Sonoma County Library | WebPage |
Sonoma | Sonoma County Library Genealogy Resources |
WebPage |
Sonoma | The Press Democrat - Online Obits (7 days) | WebPage |
Stanislaus | Obituaries - please limit to one request every two weeks | Bernie T - |
Stanislaus | The Modesto Bee, The Patterson Irrigator Obituaries and cemetery records |
Della R - |
Stanislaus | Birth, marriage and death date lookups in the Modesto Bee | Colleen N - |
Stanislaus | Turlock newspapers (1912-P), Turlock Memorial Park photos | Minnie L - |
Stanislaus | Modesto Bee Online Obits (Last 90 days)
Modesto Bee Online Obits Archive (1989-P),Fee for full text. |
WebPage WebPage |
Tulare | Tulare County Obituaries - FEE | WebPage |
Tuolumne | Union Democrat (1870 - Present) Covers Entire County Will also Photograph Gravestones |
Shirley D - |
Ventura | Obits from the Ventura Star from Dec 2000 to present, Ventura Co BMD index lookups 1871 - 1991 | Stephanie P - |
Southern California | Southern California Obituary Resource Project | WebPage |
*Statewide* | Various California state resources - please ask! | Colleen N - |
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