Are you looking for Palo Alto obituaries and death records? While this is very useful in researching a family name, you are actually limited in what you can find when you search only for basic information. Palo Alto obituaries, unlike death records, contain detailed information about the person's life - not just the name and date of death. In fact, Palo Alto, CA newspaper articles originally published California obituaries. A fairly recent phenomenon is the archiving of these Palo Alto obituaries, first through microfilm, and then through online databases.
Palo Alto obituaries include personal information on the character of the deceased and the accomplishments to his/her name. For example, Palo Alto, California obituaries might reveal to you that the subject was born in 1957, and that she had four siblings. Palo Alto, California obituaries further detail where the woman in question grew up, attended schools and worked.