Comments on: Tuesday’s Tip – How to Locate Sisters & Daughters http://www.jessicagreen.com/wordpress/2011/10/11/tuesdays-tip-where-did-she-go-how-to-locate-sisters-daughters/ a plethora of useless ramblings from jessicagreen.com Sun, 17 Mar 2013 04:48:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Judy Webster http://www.jessicagreen.com/wordpress/2011/10/11/tuesdays-tip-where-did-she-go-how-to-locate-sisters-daughters/comment-page-1/#comment-7071 Judy Webster Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:15:53 +0000 http://www.jessicagreen.com/wordpress/?p=4703#comment-7071 Excellent suggestions. Re ‘If you still can’t find her, consider the following possibilities’, I would also add: She may have been admitted to an asylum – and for patients who died there, the death registration often has no parents’ names and an incorrect spelling for the deceased’s name. I recommend searching any available indexes to mental asylum and benevolent asylum records (locally and even overseas).

In Queensland (Australia) we can often find out a woman’s married name by using (1) annotated *State* electoral rolls (which are different from the ones on Ancestry) and (2) affidavits in probate files for her parents or other relatives.

]]> By: DaD http://www.jessicagreen.com/wordpress/2011/10/11/tuesdays-tip-where-did-she-go-how-to-locate-sisters-daughters/comment-page-1/#comment-7007 DaD Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:56:12 +0000 http://www.jessicagreen.com/wordpress/?p=4703#comment-7007 Jess – That is dang good stuff. I can see you putting together a book on how to be the world’s best genealogist (next to you of course!).

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