Geneoloblog.--69

I looked up my grandmother on Ancestry.com. Off the top of my head I didn't remember birth & death dates, and results were too varied to be helpful. Then I thought to add her middle name and immediately spotted a Social Security Death Index. This gave me the exact birth and death date information to further refine the search and with it I managed to turn up a U.S. Public Records entry. Trying to move on to exact match searches didn't seem to help at all, oddly enough. By far the best thing I could do to improve results on Ancestry.com would be to log into my wife's account there and utilized all the extra bells and whistles that come with payed membership.