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how do i find the maiden name of a female ancestor?

i have just started to trace my family tree i am stuck as to how i can find my great great grandmothers maiden name also great grandmothers maiden name

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1. The best place to look would be marriage certificates. If you dont have these, your great grandmother's maiden name would normally be on your grandmothers birth certificate and the same for your great great grandmother. Do you know where either of them were born? If so, the registry office closest to their birthplace would have records of them. Failing that, Libraries hold a huge amount of info about tracing people, ask someone there!
2. try free BDM. you can do a search from your grandads name and it will bring up who he married.
3. Don't know how old your generatons are. However, a death certificate on one of their children will usually have both parents' name, with the mother's maiden name as well as their place of birth. Now if they go back to the 19th century, they probably didn't have a death certificate.
4. If you would like me to do a search to find your g/g/grans maiden name and your great/grans maiden name just email me asap and I will do the search for you, to see if I can find them for you. I will also need dates when they were born ? husbands names and places they were born /married ? just as much as you can tell me really , don't forget maiden names were not included on birth certificates until July the 1st 1911. mamsgel1956@yahoo.co.uk
5. This information will be on their marriage records. Unfortunately you don't give me anything to go on - like the names of their husbands or rough dates. If you email me with this info I will look on ancestry.co.uk for you and see if I can find anything.
6. Marriage certificates carry both when names of the people who are getting married, Birth certificates show the Mother's name and maiden name. The Civil registration index's which can be viewed at Ancestry.co.uk or on Micro film at local library's show mothers maiden in the birth index's or spouses maiden name in the Marriage index's from about the mid to late 1920's I think, sorry i cannot remember exactly off the top of my head. Also allow for miss spelt names Evan in the index's. there is also a web page for free BMD searches from the early part of the 20th Century back to the start of civil registration in England and Wales, Hope this is of some help, Good Hunting
7. prior to june 1837,you will need the church records. Have you tried the Latter Day saints (lds) family search web site
8. You need to get some dates and then go for a marriage cert,or try genes reunited,yes you will need to pay £9,50 for six months but i joined on the 23rd of March not knowing my grandfathers name and i have now traced my family on both sides back to the 1600s.
9. If in the US, census records are great and go back to the mid to late 1700s, depending on the area/township/territory. Our census data for our family trace the white people to 1796 from Britain. The British census goes back much farther. I personally use Ancestry.com as my sources. This is a subscription service; however, there are many other sites available. Good luck.
10. Marriage records. sometimes death records have it. baptism records good luck