This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CSchafer513 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kansas.counties.leavenworth/1169.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thanks for the info. I do realize Census records don't usually include a city someone is born in but have come across a few. But I think my POST was hoping for a OBIT/Death Record in Paper (which could lead to Vital record. I would need to narrow date down before paying for vital record. Because she has such a VERY common name for that area it has been hard to weed out. I have solved VERY tough brick walls with Newspaper obits!!! As for Vital Search I do not have Paid subscription so I can't see much. As for NEVER searching a married women by her married name, I disagree unless you are sending into an office for a specific record. I have NEVER found ANY of my SCRANTON women death records or for that matter any of my family by looking for their maiden names on death searches. I have put most of my families back together with newspapers and cross referencing them with vital records and year by year city directly timelines! Going WAY, WAY back! It certainly can help if for some reason they actually have a grave site they engrave but my poor relatives hardly had stones and so many cemeteries don't have much. You would not get far reseaching like that in SF, CA as all vital records were lost in 1906, the only way to search for relatives is Newspapers ( I have put four sides back to together using only Newspapers not many Vital Records. So in this city and in many you can't rely on Vital records with maiden names. I always use both that's why I put her maiden name in parentheses hoping a newspaper many have either of the names in a search. I will continue my search for an obit as I do have Census and city directories up to about 1890. I also will continue to try and find out where her kids move as this entire family scatters about this time because the mother of Mary Scranton Wells dies. Thanks for the information! Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>