Searching for someone by their Maiden Name |
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| By Arlan Gorsich |
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| It is a tradition culturally in the West and throughout much
of Europe for women to change their name when they get
married. It was a strict church-related issue of the past
that was carried on into current times. Now the issue of
your maiden name is a frustrating factor in anything related
to people search or someone trying to find a person.
Genealogoy has this as it most challenging search issue.
Using a people finder, therefore, has little value up front
if you do not have a married name. If you are tracing an identity or searching based on Maiden Name there are other things consider. If your target person was unmarried and has now married to hide their name and traceability then you have a real challenge. There are also other types of information that can help you that relate to school-related activities - and those are logically always stored by maiden name. This typically includes Grade School registration, early medical records, etc. If you have had no luck using traditional search methods then you may want to consider talking with relatives, old neighbors, and others where the maiden name is a help rather than a hindrance. This is where the maiden name of the person becomes critical. Professionals in the search industry normally begin their applied searches with maiden names and school records. Most expanded information begins at the high school level, but HS searches reveal little usable data. When you get into college, however, there is normally a wealth of data about a woman - dorm, sorority, major, class schedule, groups, clubs, etc. Then you can take that data and begin to see if there are any correlations in the data you already have that match. You will even begin to start an address search. There was a very interesting story that circulated a few years ago about an FBI search for a serial killer in New Mexico. It was high profile because serial killers are normally male. In this case, the search had been ongoing for several years and was close to being closed when an obscure search in a southern Christian college produced a 'hit'. The woman in question had been very active in CSA (Confederate States of America) history and genealogy and the maiden name was a direct hit because of a unique middle name. That led the Bureau to a paper chase for nine months and many genealogy sites. Bingo, they found an ancestor of the target woman who was a Brigadier General in the Confederacy and that led them to her relatives and her hiding place on a family farm. If you have the maiden name, you then need to connect it to someone else - a husband. This is most easily accomplished using online Marriage License or Registry databases. You can even chase this data through the local newspaper to see if there was a public announcement of their marriage. All of this will tend to help you find a person. |
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| About The Author Arlan Gorshich is Senior Article Editor for What-Why-How researching and writing on numerous topics including how to execute an what-why-how.net/PeopleSearch.html>”>add ress search and using a what-why-how.net/PeopleSearch.html>”>peo ple finder very efficiently. |
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