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Try the FamilySearch Historical Records Collections.

Online searching is simple and quick, so it’s a great place to start. Particularly when you are researching a common name, information about known family members can help you determine if you have the right obituary. We would expect to find her obituary under the name of Vera Stephens.

Then she married a second time to a man surnamed Stephens.

For example, a woman named Vera Webb married a man surnamed Brantley. If you’re looking for a female ancestor in a country where women usually changed their surnames at marriage, try to determine the woman’s surname at the time of death. For women, the surname at the time of death.What was the person’s last known residence according to church, government, or other records? Where do you find the person’s family after he or she died? Sites such as Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records can help you locate death information for an ancestor. Again, you might have this exact information, but even if you don’t, you can usually make a good estimate.

For example, if your ancestor appears with her husband in the 1851 England census, but her husband appears as a widower in the 1861 census, your ancestor most likely died between 18. But even if you don’t, you can usually estimate a death date range from other records. Sometimes you may have an exact death date from a death certificate or family record.