I've recently started Graduate school, so I'm not sure how much I will be able to get around to continuing my research. So much so that I've sadly canceled my monthly subscription to Ancestry.com for now. I'm a poor starving student again! Well not starving but poor nonetheless.
I have till February 15th to use up my subscription and I've decided today to use it on the one person who has alluded everyone mysteriously. With the help of Auntie Carol and an amazing distant, distant non-relative (its hard to explain) I got some leads on Mr. Andres Avila!
Here is what I know:
Parents were Isabila Yebara and Manuel Avila as stated on his marriage license to Lupe Avila. They were married in LA County then immediately moved to Bakersfield (Delano) and had Grandpa Ernie. His mother and sibling appear in the 1920 and 1930 census in Gallup, New Mexico.
...then with a tip from a friend, I found him in a census in 1920 and things took off from there. I started following where the information was taking me. I found him in a 1930 Census, I found civilian draft registrations and WWI draft registrations. I found a social security death index and a birthday of November 10, 1888. Now this information is different from the rest (listed above) because I am not entirely sure it is the right Andres Avila. The timeline seems right. Was in New, Mexico, spent some time in Colorado Then died in Los Angeles (90031 zip to be exact) in November of 1967. Unfortunately like most death indexes, a mother's maiden name is not lists which would verify if this Andres Avila is the one I'm looking for. For that I will have to go look at the real thing.
If this is the guy however, I found him, buried at Calvary Cemetery on Whittier Blvd in Los Angeles. #6, Lot 509, Section G. Sadly, to get more information on him I have to pay a $25 fee (never encountered that before) but before I do that I think I'll look for his death record first.
After that would be to find his obituary and maybe some living relative. I'm not sure if this guy is my grandfather's father, which yes all signs point to it is, but without more concrete evidence I won't say for sure it is him, but merely a possibility. If it is him, just imagine - he was living just down the 5 freeway the entire time. His son had 5 daughters that he could have, but never met.
I have till February 15th to use up my subscription and I've decided today to use it on the one person who has alluded everyone mysteriously. With the help of Auntie Carol and an amazing distant, distant non-relative (its hard to explain) I got some leads on Mr. Andres Avila!
Here is what I know:
Parents were Isabila Yebara and Manuel Avila as stated on his marriage license to Lupe Avila. They were married in LA County then immediately moved to Bakersfield (Delano) and had Grandpa Ernie. His mother and sibling appear in the 1920 and 1930 census in Gallup, New Mexico.
...then with a tip from a friend, I found him in a census in 1920 and things took off from there. I started following where the information was taking me. I found him in a 1930 Census, I found civilian draft registrations and WWI draft registrations. I found a social security death index and a birthday of November 10, 1888. Now this information is different from the rest (listed above) because I am not entirely sure it is the right Andres Avila. The timeline seems right. Was in New, Mexico, spent some time in Colorado Then died in Los Angeles (90031 zip to be exact) in November of 1967. Unfortunately like most death indexes, a mother's maiden name is not lists which would verify if this Andres Avila is the one I'm looking for. For that I will have to go look at the real thing.
If this is the guy however, I found him, buried at Calvary Cemetery on Whittier Blvd in Los Angeles. #6, Lot 509, Section G. Sadly, to get more information on him I have to pay a $25 fee (never encountered that before) but before I do that I think I'll look for his death record first.
After that would be to find his obituary and maybe some living relative. I'm not sure if this guy is my grandfather's father, which yes all signs point to it is, but without more concrete evidence I won't say for sure it is him, but merely a possibility. If it is him, just imagine - he was living just down the 5 freeway the entire time. His son had 5 daughters that he could have, but never met.
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