My father passed away over 30 years ago, I just found his address by googling his name. However, his name is not all that common.
I have an Ancestry.com membership and can check for you if you would like.
CaptMurdock , I replied to your pm and haven’t heard back from you. I’m posting just in case it didn’t go through.
robert_columbia:
Can you ask your mother or older siblings? Do you have any other family or friends that might have known him?
What about phone books? If you know the name of the town, you could try to get a copy of the phone book from one of the years that he lived there.
Did your father attend a school where you might be able to get the information from the alumni office?
Were your parents living there when you or any of your siblings was born? The address might be on your birth certificate. My birth certificate has my parents’ address from the time on it. Also, what about school records (yourself or siblings?)
Local land records! In the county I live in, who owns what house (and who used to own it) is public record, available at the courthouse for anyone who walks in and asks.
Local land records—good one. For 1980 or thereabouts.
Google Earth has a timeline feature that can go back decades (varies by location).
CaptMurdock:
Briefly, some details:
The town is San Clemente, CA. It was about five to ten minutes from the 405(?) freeway, turning left off the offramp as you were heading towards San Diego. I don’t remember which offramp, however.
Is this the right view? Start driving around in StreetView.
I was going by your description being east of the highway and bit of a drive to get there. I looked at a couple other areas but they are very close to the highway or didn’t have a clear view. The neighbourhood just to the south-west may be a candidate…there are larger homes there. I’m surprised there aren’t more homes with pools.
You can try the Orange County Grantor/Grantee search by namehttp://cr.ocgov.com/grantorgrantee2/searchPersonsName.asp
It goes back to 1982, not sure if that is far enough, but it’s nearly 30 years ago.
Just noticed that unlike my county here in MA they don’t have digitized versions of the documents online though. Frustrating.
