David Negus

I am profoundly sorry to learn of this. Dave and I became acquainted via email as we were conducting family history research and found that we shared some common ancestors. He had a wonderful analytical mind for genealogy and was great to bounce theories off because he was a stickler for sourcing and proof. We lost touch several years ago and I ran across some old posts of his from a genealogical group that gave me some more answers and excellent maps that I did not know existed. My...

My deepest condolescences to Carolle and Rose especially. Dave was a great mentor to our clan in Rancho from the 80's through the 90's especially. I joined the office in 1989. I was having issues with getting any case assigned to me to go to trial in those first 5 weeks. I remember Dave flying down the hallway shouting "here's your 1st case. ---NOT GUILTY--- and he will not take a plea. You will go to trial. And I did! I miss everyone from those days. We have lost so many now from the PD...