Quote Originally Posted by gilmore View Post
You don't have to do that any more. At ancestry.com you just type in the name, click a search and get a list of hits.
That's the way it should work, but every once in a while a person falls through the cracks. I should have mentioned, too, that the name we were looking for was now a middle initial in the census. It might not have mattered anyway...when she passed on, there were two newspaper stories and her name was spelled differently in each one and neither matched what was on her gravestone. It's what makes genealogy fun and keeps us young at the same time.