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 had met my father and moved to Boston with him when she was seventeen. She didn’t talk much about the family she left behind, and the circumstances of her life in California were mysterious to me. But I did know that she had a brother and sister, which meant that I had an aunt and uncle I’d never met.

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.

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.

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!

I eventually tracked down contact information for them both, and traveled to meet them in California. After that, they came and visited my family in Boston. I am so glad that I decided to look at the California death records. That decision definitely made this process more efficient.

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