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    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.<br>
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    <p>California Birth Index,
      1905-1995</p>
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                            <p>Name:</p>
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                            <p>Thomas Griffin Rickard</p>
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                            <p>Birth Date:</p>
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                            <p>22 Jul 1939</p>
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                            <p>Gender:</p>
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                            <p>Male</p>
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                            <p>Mother's Maiden Name:</p>
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                            <p>Griffin</p>
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                            <p>Birth County:</p>
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                            <p>Santa Clara</p>
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    <p>California Birth Index,
      1905-1995</p>
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                            <p>Name:</p>
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                            <p>Edward Thomas Rickard</p>
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                            <p>Birth Date:</p>
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                            <p>8 Sep 1933</p>
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                            <p>Gender:</p>
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                            <p>Male</p>
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                            <p>Mother's Maiden Name:</p>
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                            <p>Earhart</p>
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                            <p>Birth County:</p>
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                            <p>Los Angeles</p>
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    <p>U.S. Public Records Index,
      Volume 1</p>
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                            <p>Name:</p>
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                            <p>Thomas P Rickard</p>
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                            <p>Birth Date:</p>
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                            <p>30 Oct 1939</p>
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                            <p>Phone Number:</p>
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                            <p>447-4079</p>
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                            <p>Address:</p>
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                            <p>RR 3 POB 624, Newport, WA, 99156 (1984)<br>
                              [301 Hilltop Rd, Newport, WA, 99156
                              (1989)]</p>
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    On 4/6/2011 4:54 PM, Leslie Chapman wrote:
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            <td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">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. 
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              <div>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.   </div>
              <div>Les C</div>
              <div><br>
                <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:
                    12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">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 the</span></span><span
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                    12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span></span><span
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                    font-family: Arial; color: black;"><a
                      moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.legacy.com/legacies/university-of-washington/?personid=148280501&affiliateID=1380"
                      target="_blank" title="Visit University of
                      Washington Legacies to see similar profiles"><span
                        style="color: rgb(3, 78, 131); text-decoration:
                        none;">University of
                        Washington</span></a>. 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.</span></span></div>
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                    black;"><br>
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                    black;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span
                        style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;
                        color: black;">Published
                        in News Tribune (Tacoma) on February 1, 2011</span></span></span></span></div>
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