Hi list members: I am posting this from another list, I found it most interesting. Maybe it will help someone. Pat pwjones@centuryinter.net Having a hard time trying to find that maiden name of your gg-grandmother? >Some hints that I observed at a recent Genealogy Workshop. > >Research and study case studies of PROVEN ANCESTORS, they often married >their first cousins. > >When possible, always go to the Original records/documents > >Follow Her Males, did they stay in that county or go to another state? > >Who did her brothers and sisters marry? > >Look at those neighbors very closely, males seldom married females that >lived over five miles from their homes. More often it was the next house >that they chose their wife from. > >Deeds... >Always look at several pages before and after listings of deeds. Pay >special attention to all those recorded the same day. > >Note other surnames that keep repeating often in deeds, plus "et al" which >means "and others" > >Note males that are selling their interest in property, this just may be >the father-in-law who has recently died. > >Note names of witnesses on wills and deeds, usually one is from the family >of the female to protect her dower. This is not written in stone but very >often true. > >Always tract your females until dead and buried. >Follow son-in-laws, sons, grandsons, and nephews. > >Tract down all lines of a marriage, often the husband would marry as a >second marriage, a sister of his wife, if she had died shortly after the >marriage. >