Within a few months ago, someone emailed either the Genealogy Guys podcast or the Genealogy Gems podcast with a similar question. There was a guest who had some ideas about how to gather that information without using a death certificate. Two of his suggestions were to use the social security death index and then send for a person's application which would have listed a mother's maiden name. This will work only if she is of an age that she'd have had a social security application. If she was and the information isn't yet there, I also recently learned that social security records are still being added! I'd thought they were all there, but apparently records continue to be added from earlier years. Another idea was to look in a probate file. If your 4th great aunt had an estate record, death certificates are sometimes filed in those probate records. Marie -----Original Message----- >From: Bobbie Brady <[email protected]> >Sent: May 9, 2011 4:02 PM >To: MDWASHINGTON <[email protected]> >Subject: [MDWashin] Death Certificate > >Hello Everyone, > >I want to obtain a death certificate for my 4th Great Aunt, hoping it will have the maiden name of her mother on it. > >It looks like the State of Maryland has quite a few restrictions on obtaining one. > >Does anyone on this Genealogy Board have any suggestions for me??? > >Bobbie Hunt Brady > >Researching: Hunt, Lutz, Myers, Barkman, Kinsell > > >********* >Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MDWASHIN >********* > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Marie...however, this aunt died in 1875 in Washington Co., MD. I have not yet tried to find any will or probate records. I doubt she had a will. Seems most women at that time didn't. Bobbie ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [MDWashin] Death Certificate > Within a few months ago, someone emailed either the Genealogy Guys podcast > or the Genealogy Gems podcast with a similar question. There was a guest > who had some ideas about how to gather that information without using a > death certificate. > > Two of his suggestions were to use the social security death index and > then send for a person's application which would have listed a mother's > maiden name. This will work only if she is of an age that she'd have had > a social security application. If she was and the information isn't yet > there, I also recently learned that social security records are still > being added! I'd thought they were all there, but apparently records > continue to be added from earlier years. > > Another idea was to look in a probate file. If your 4th great aunt had an > estate record, death certificates are sometimes filed in those probate > records. > > Marie > > > -----Original Message----- >>From: Bobbie Brady <[email protected]> >>Sent: May 9, 2011 4:02 PM >>To: MDWASHINGTON <[email protected]> >>Subject: [MDWashin] Death Certificate >> >>Hello Everyone, >> >>I want to obtain a death certificate for my 4th Great Aunt, hoping it will >>have the maiden name of her mother on it. >> >>It looks like the State of Maryland has quite a few restrictions on >>obtaining one. >> >>Does anyone on this Genealogy Board have any suggestions for me??? >> >>Bobbie Hunt Brady >> >>Researching: Hunt, Lutz, Myers, Barkman, Kinsell >> >> >>********* >>Visit the threaded archives of this list: >>http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MDWASHIN >>********* >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MDWASHIN > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message