[or-roots] Any suggestions

[Sue Steward]

Les, I'm a little confused.  You sound like "these folks" might have had 
some questions but you didn't share them with us.  So I'm not sure what 
you would want checked on the Calif Birth Index.  Neither of these would 
make him 74 when he died Jan 2011.


California Birth Index, 1905-1995

Name:

	

Thomas Griffin Rickard

Birth Date:

	

22 Jul 1939

Gender:

	

Male

Mother's Maiden Name:

	

Griffin

Birth County:

	

Santa Clara





California Birth Index, 1905-1995

Name:

	

Edward Thomas Rickard

Birth Date:

	

8 Sep 1933

Gender:

	

Male

Mother's Maiden Name:

	

Earhart

Birth County:

	

Los Angeles





U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1

Name:

	

Thomas P Rickard

Birth Date:

	

30 Oct 1939

Phone Number:

	

447-4079

Address:

	

RR 3 POB 624, Newport, WA, 99156 (1984)
[301 Hilltop Rd, Newport, WA, 99156 (1989)]




On 4/6/2011 4:54 PM, Leslie Chapman wrote:
> The only lead I can think of for this is to go the University to see 
> if they have anything that would help. I am assuming that these folks 
> are the folks who ended up with Toms stuff that are looking for his 
> next of kin. I know he had a lot of photography and artsy kind of 
> stuff. Anyway this is an old friend of the family whose Oregon 
> connection for me is I met him here in Reedsport on the family farm 
> and he shared many of his pictures of that farm with me as well as he 
> and i spent quite a bit of time sharing genealogy on Milan M. Melvin 
> the first and his descendants.
>
> What I am hoping for is someone might have access to the Cal birth 
> index and that information might give some clues to family if he has 
> any at all.
> Les C
>
> Thomas Rickard Thomas Rickard was born in California 74 years ago. He 
> died January 21, 2011 in Tacoma, Washington, where he had lived for 
> the past fifty years. He received degrees in Landscape Architecture 
> from the University of Oregon and in Architecture from theUniversity 
> of Washington 
> <http://www.legacy.com/legacies/university-of-washington/?personid=148280501&affiliateID=1380>. 
> For most of his professional career he practiced landscape 
> architecture with the firm of Chaffee Zumwalt & Associates in 
> Lakewood, where he started a "TGIF" tradition which will continue Tom 
> was a man of many talents and interests. His academic training 
> included fine art at the University of Oregon and he produced 
> paintings in oil and watercolors. The latter medium was his favorite, 
> and his paintings have been exhibited in numerous galleries and 
> museums throughout the Northwest. Early in his architectural career he 
> developed an interest in the works of Frank Lloyd Wright. He traveled 
> far and wide photographing the "master's" completed works. He became 
> an acknowledged expert in this field and his lectures on Frank Lloyd 
> Wright were informative, entertaining, and most memorable.
>
> Published in News Tribune (Tacoma) on February 1, 2011
>
>
>
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