How do I find a person for genealogy if they have died and I don't have that much information about them?

answers1: I hope that you have done the research leading to this
person and are not picking an arbitary person out of history hoping to
find the information. <br>
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First of all, what country are you in? If this person was born before
1930 in the U.S. or 1901 in the U.K., then you have a chance of being
able to pick them up in the census--- if you have her maiden name.
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If what you have is a married name AND they lived in the United
States, AND they lived past 1963 then you might be able to pick them
up in the Social Security Death index. Here is the link: <br>
<a href="http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/</a> <br>
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If you have information on her maiden name, but nothing on her
marriages, then you might want to research her known siblings. Often
times, you can find a married name in the obituary of her siblings or
parents. <br>
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If she is still living, then you may have a hard time due to privacy laws.
answers2: Wendy's trick for using the social security death index- <br>
go for the ADVANCED search option. If the persons name is not too
common... use the last name only, then the state and county where they
used to be. If very very uncommon.. you can expand that to the state.
This CAN pick up deaths of relatives, which (with date and place), you
can try for an obituary. <br>
Alternate trick.. leave OUT the last name, but use the first name
only, again with a known county or state. If something turns up, are
the dates realistic? If you are hunting a person that you know to have
been born in 1950, then the ones with 1925 clearly will be wrong.
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Previous last name suggests that you are looking for a woman. That's
tricky, since the odds are that the name got changed by marriage. And
if the first name is a nickname, not the correct one.. that makes it
harder. <br>
What chance do you have that someone in the family has better info,
and may tell you? And, IS it likely that the person that says they are
dead, is reliable and honest? Not to suggest someone isn't honest, but
there are times when a parent claims that the other parent is dead,
when they are not. <br>
I second what HSK mom says, that if the person is living, it makes it
more difficult. Not to mention that WHERE YOU LIVE is critical to
offering the best resource. <br>
IF you want, you can repost the question, and more details may help
get a better solution. The only time I would back off on this, is if
you are a minor, and looking without parental knowledge. We would be
wrong to interfere in something like that.