California, Los Angeles, Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery/Crematory Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
Interment records and ownership file index for the Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery/Crematory in Los Angeles, California for years 1884-2002. This collection includes but is not limited to an index file to owners of burial plots, and an index file to burials in the cemetery. Microreproduction of the records is located at the Angels-Rosedale Cemetery/Crematory.

What Can These Records Tell Me?
The following information may be found in these records:

Ownership of plots
 * Name
 * Age
 * Date
 * Location
 * Remarks

Permit to Inter
 * Name
 * Death date and cause
 * Age
 * Sex
 * Color
 * Cemetery

Permit for Disposition of Human Remains
 * Name
 * Death date and place
 * Name and address of informant
 * Internment

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Research Helps
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Other FamilySearch Collections
These collections may have additional materials to help you with your research.

FamilySearch Catalog

 * Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery/Crematory ownership and interment files and index files, 1884-1976.
 * Pierce Brothers Cunningham & O'Connor Mortuary, Hollywood, California. Death records, 1950-1978.
 * Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, records 1877-1988 and indexes 1877-1989
 * Los Angeles City, California, death records 1905-1930
 * Los Angeles City, California, index of deaths, 1877-1962 and death records, 1930-1963
 * Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, Your Guide to Cemetery Research. Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 2002 FS Library 973 V37c

FamilySearch Digital Library

 * James Miller Guinn, Historical and biographical record of Los Angeles and vicinity : containing history of the City from its earliest settlement as a Spanish pueblo to the closing year of the nineteenth century, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present Chicago, Illinois : Chapman Publishing Company, 1901

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