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I found my grandmother, sans grandfather, and mom and my aunt. She is listed with an m for married which is crossed out with a D for divorced, and isn't working yet so I assumen it was recent. I also found my great uncle while looking for them.
My grandfather moved to some other local in Los Angeles. I'm wondering if I should just spend hours looking or wait. I want to document his second marriage though.
I've been thinking that if I could find the phone book for 1941 I could find an area. Anyone know how to access phone directories?
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Originally Posted by mf440
If you're looking for Los Angeles directories, the LAPL has a few available online at their site: ResCarta-Web - Browse Titles
They don't have 1941, but they do have '39 and '42.
Looks like mf440 has given you a good start.
Keep in mind that libraries can have paper copies of phone directories, too, that might not be online yet.
I was unable to find out how much it cost to digitize the 1940 census, but apparently the process started in 2009. I even looked at the budget, but it is not a separate item. NARA is in the process of digitizing enormous numbers of records of all kinds. It will be interesting to see what becomes available for genealogists.
I can't remember where I heard or saw it on the new but I remember that it costs $200,000 to contract this digitization out to a private company.
You would pay $200,000 to buy the entire digital version of the census now that it has been released. The expense to actually do the scanning and digital conversion is not mentioned separately in the NARA budget. It's mixed in with all the other files they are digitizing, and they are digitizing like crazy.
The company that set up the NARA website (Inflection, the parent company of Archives.com) actually was not paid to do it.
If you're looking for Los Angeles directories, the LAPL has a few available online at their site: ResCarta-Web - Browse Titles
They don't have 1941, but they do have '39 and '42.
Thank you so much! I found him and his new wife in 1938 and 39 and an address. But also his dad and cousins I didn't know had come to California. Then went looking for Fernwood avenue.
But DANG! While watching the will there be a storm coverage last night I found the address. Except a woman and two kids, none of them my relatives lived there.
He's not in 1942, though the rest of the family is. Next stop finding a number for the LA library system and seeing if I can have someone look him up in 1940?
At least the listing showing he and his wife with the same address and last name is a real concrete reference.
I got the impression that he dumped Grandma, the family dumped him.
I guess this would be the best thread for this story.
I was cleaning out my parents house, maybe 2013 or so when they moved into a board and care near my house. I found my mom's first husband's WWII records including his dog tag and his Stalag IV POW dog tag. My mom, born 1923, was in a TB sanitarium where she met him after the war and they got married, he died of TB, she lived; this is around 1948 or so. These documents/tags were meaningless to me so I went on a mission to return them to his family.
Using Census Records (I THINK 1940 but maybe 1930???), I found he lived on a street Long Island and I found out he had a brother. I used Google to find this brother and found his brother's 1999 obituary. The brother has two kids, now in their early 60s. I looked one of the kid's names up and he came up on Linked In. I called his company and asked to speak with him. I was given his cell phone as he was out on business. I called him and he called me back and I told him I had his uncle's dog tags. He didn't believe me. I told him I was the son of from his uncle's wife's second marriage. I took a photo of the tags and texted the photo to him. He got the text and started crying..."...uncle Tommy's dog tags...".
I stuck everything in a envelop and sent them to him.
I guess this would be the best thread for this story.
I was cleaning out my parents house, maybe 2013 or so when they moved into a board and care near my house. I found my mom's first husband's WWII records including his dog tag and his Stalag IV POW dog tag. My mom, born 1923, was in a TB sanitarium where she met him after the war and they got married, he died of TB, she lived; this is around 1948 or so. These documents/tags were meaningless to me so I went on a mission to return them to his family.
Using Census Records (I THINK 1940 but maybe 1930???), I found he lived on a street Long Island and I found out he had a brother. I used Google to find this brother and found his brother's 1999 obituary. The brother has two kids, now in their early 60s. I looked one of the kid's names up and he came up on Linked In. I called his company and asked to speak with him. I was given his cell phone as he was out on business. I called him and he called me back and I told him I had his uncle's dog tags. He didn't believe me. I told him I was the son of from his uncle's wife's second marriage. I took a photo of the tags and texted the photo to him. He got the text and started crying..."...uncle Tommy's dog tags...".
I stuck everything in a envelop and sent them to him.
That was an aces thing to do. Thank you for being so thoughtful!
I guess this would be the best thread for this story.
I was cleaning out my parents house, maybe 2013 or so when they moved into a board and care near my house. I found my mom's first husband's WWII records including his dog tag and his Stalag IV POW dog tag. My mom, born 1923, was in a TB sanitarium where she met him after the war and they got married, he died of TB, she lived; this is around 1948 or so. These documents/tags were meaningless to me so I went on a mission to return them to his family.
Using Census Records (I THINK 1940 but maybe 1930???), I found he lived on a street Long Island and I found out he had a brother. I used Google to find this brother and found his brother's 1999 obituary. The brother has two kids, now in their early 60s. I looked one of the kid's names up and he came up on Linked In. I called his company and asked to speak with him. I was given his cell phone as he was out on business. I called him and he called me back and I told him I had his uncle's dog tags. He didn't believe me. I told him I was the son of from his uncle's wife's second marriage. I took a photo of the tags and texted the photo to him. He got the text and started crying..."...uncle Tommy's dog tags...".
I stuck everything in a envelop and sent them to him.
Who's cutting onions in here?
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