California, Death Index, 1905-1939 provides the digitized index page, plus its transcription.Two state-level California Death Indexes can be found at (a database anyone can access from any library branch and Central Library) or (a free internet database). This information can be obtained from a death index or death certificate. These newspapers are also not indexed, so it will help you immensely if you know the place and date of death. This guide (PDF) can help you find out what newspapers were published in Los Angeles for each decade. If you don’t find the obituary in the above-mentioned databases, you could come to Central Library to pore over our other microfilmed newspapers. Or give us the precise citation information you find, and we can scan and email the article to you for $5 per request and 25-cents-a-page. Searching for abstracts/citations is free, but to obtain the full-text articles you must pay a fee. You will need a valid library card to access our subscription to the Los Angeles Times at no cost. You may access all three of these databases from home with your library card on our Research & Homework page. We also provide access to the digitized newspaper databases Access Newspaper Archives and the Los Angeles Sentinel Historical Archive (1934-2005). We have a subscription to the digitized Los Angeles Times Historical Database (1881-1994). The Southern California Genealogical Society has an online index to obituaries found in the Los Angeles Times, but it is not complete. This means you have to either look through the newspapers page by page near the date of death (usually on microfilm), or search using keywords in a digitized format of the newspaper. There is no comprehensive index to obituaries and death notices for the newspapers in Los Angeles. These vary in length, but many only give the name of the decedent and the name of a mortuary. Death notices-which are paid announcements-appear more frequently. The Los Angeles city newspapers generally only publish obituaries for well-known citizens.
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