I need to find the cemetery where my father in law is buried, last know location was california, any ideas?

Question

I need to find the cemetery where my father in law is buried, last know location was california, any ideas?

Answer 1

If you have/can get a death certificate it should list the place of burial.  Look up that county Historical Society's web site/address and contact them for geographic information.  I've just done this for Ohio relatives.

Answer 2

Three.

http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bi...

- Social Security Death Index. Click on "Advanced Search" to narrow down the possibilities, if his name was John Smith. Just go for it if his name was Mortimer Periwinkle.

http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/d...

but they only cover 1940 - 1997

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi

Some funeral parlors enter their records here as a matter of course. Some don't. They have 22 million names.

If you find where he died but not the cemetery, you'll need to try for the obit.

http://www.tedpack.org/obit.html

tells how, with links.