When searching for women in newspapers, search for them by their maiden name even after their date of marriage. I was recently searching local newspapers for mentions of a cousin who married in Illinois in 1910. Most of the references to her after 1910 were by her married name, but there were several newspaper mentions of her after her marriage where she was listed in the article as the “former Ola Baker.” Her husband was was mentioned in most of these articles or her married name was listed in the article, but every name transcriptions of newspapers do not always get every name correct, so searching by as many names as possible is advised.
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