UPEC Death Claims Registers on Ancestry

[Kathy Cardoza]

I just discovered something you all may or may not know and I wanted to pass it along……. The UPEC (Portuguese Union of California) Death Claims Registers are on Ancestry! If you search for them in the Card Catalog, you will NOT find them. They are included in another source:  California, Death and Burial Records from Select Counties, 1873-1987

Part of the notes on this source say:

This collection includes a variety of records from the counties of Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Fresno, Santa Clara, Stanislaus, Sutter, and Yolo, as well as the Portuguese Union of California. Included you’ll find:

• death certificates, returns, and registers
• burial permits
• indexes to death records and obituaries
• death benefit claim registers (Portuguese Union of California)

These Death Claims Registers do include Alameda County.  I have found 3 of my great grandfathers who died in Alameda County!

So, enjoy!

Good luck and happy hunting!

Kathy

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[rcapodc]

Thanks for putting this on Kathy, I was going to do it and forgot!! While helping my friend yesterday looking for the Focha, we found him on Ancestry! I looked at the document and said, “those are the UPEC Death Registers!” I was shocked. It really is a great resource for everyone.

 

Rosemarie

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[Cheri Mello]

I saw them last week on Ancestry. I thought I was the one asleep at the wheel!
Cheri

[Mary Bordi]

Thanks for that! I just found my GGrandfather there. No new info (except the amount of the policy), but I'm sure further searching will find records for other family members!

Mary

[Kathy Cardoza]

Mary …. Sometimes you will find other helpful/interesting info such as cause of death, family relationships, etc.

Cheri ….. LOL. Glad I’m not the only one!!!

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[IslandRoutes]

Thanks for the tip, Kathy!  I noticed something that people should be aware of when searching these records.  In the County or Organizaiton field it says "Portuguese Union of California".  So, if you tried to search this database with a city or county name you will probably get no results.

[luiznoia .]

The deceased council number is the only clue to their location.

Here are the council numbers for the time period this book covers.

There may be more than this but the 1929 newspaper this is extracted from has only 1 page on the UMASS site

Page is attached in PDF

Eric Edgar

UPEC - Uniao Portuguesa do Estado da California est 1880

Number   Location

1--San Leandro

2--Hollister

3--Hayward- 

4---Petaluma

5---Centerville

6---Mendocino

7---East Oakland

8---Pleasanton

9--Milpitas

10---Mission San Jose

11---Sacramento

12---Watsonville

13--- West Oakland

14---Sausalito

15---San Francisco

16---Alvarado

17---Half Moon Bay

18---Benicia

19---San Rafael

20--- Concord

21---Selma

22---Hanford

23---Fresno

24---Stockton

25---Oakland

26---Pinole

27---San Pablo

28---Santa Clara

29---Merced

30---San Francisco

31---Santa Cruz

32---San Jose

33---Danville

34---Yreka

35---Pescadero

36---Freeport

37---Monterey

38---Sebastapol

39---Salinas

40---Sacramento

41---Ashland

42---San Luis Obispo

43---Wilmington

44---Ventura

45---Novato

46---Mountain View

47---Rio Vista

48---Fairfield

49---San Mateo

[rcapodc]

Make sure that you check out the Council # and the membership # then you can go to the microfilm and see what the original membership said about where they are from.

 

Rosemarie

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[BOBCA...@aol.com]

Is this on Ancestry.com?  I have been looking and not able to find it, not sure what I am doing wrong

Bob

 

In a message dated 8/7/2014 6:46:18 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, kmaca...@me.com writes:

I just discovered something you all may or may not know and I wanted to pass it along……. The UPEC (Portuguese Union of California) Death Claims Registers are on Ancestry! If you search for them in the Card Catalog, you will NOT find them. They are included in another source:  California, Death and Burial Records from Select Counties, 1873-1987

Part of the notes on this source say:

This collection includes a variety of records from the counties of Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Fresno, Santa Clara, Stanislaus, Sutter, and Yolo, as well as the Portuguese Union of California. Included you’ll find:

• death certificates, returns, and registers
• burial permits
• indexes to death records and obituaries
• death benefit claim registers (Portuguese Union of California)

These Death Claims Registers do include Alameda County.  I have found 3 of my great grandfathers who died in Alameda County!

So, enjoy!

Good luck and happy hunting!

Kathy

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Visit the Azores GenWeb Project:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~azrwgw/index.html

Climb my Family Tree:

http://www.kathys-place.com/index.html

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[Cheri Mello]

You know, Kathy and Rosemarie, it says published on Ancestry on Feb. 21, 2014.  It only took us 6 months to discover it!

[Mary Bordi]

Thanks for the council numbers! That's a big help!

Mary

[luiznoia .]

Bob, 

Kathy said in the first message that they are included in another source:  California, Death and Burial Records from Select Counties, 1873-1987

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8835

Eric 

[rcapodc]

Oh well, you know how slow we are! LOL  Rosemarie

 

From: Cheri Mello

Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 8:48 PM

To: Azores Genealogy

Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] UPEC Death Claims Registers on Ancestry

 

You know, Kathy and Rosemarie, it says published on Ancestry on Feb. 21, 2014.  It only took us 6 months to discover it!