WolframAlpha has a page with suggested genealogical searches. The specific relationship questions give nice graphics.

WolframAlpha will calculate the number of days between two specific dates and provide the day of the week for each date on their site for ranges of dates entered in 1 January 1900-17 August 1967 format.

When searching the  “Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007″ at Ancestry.com, there is no entry for Tioga, Hancock County, Illinois in the location “database.” There are many locations that do not appear in the Ancestry.com location database.

One workaround is to use “Illinois, USA” as the location and use “tioga” as the keyword. This is not a totally guaranteed approach because some place names are not standardized in the SSA database, but it is better than nothing.

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Many “state reporter” series of court cases appealed to various supreme and other appeals courts have been scanned and digitized on GoogleBooks. Consider searching for at least the following:

• lastname
• name of county
• word “county”
• name of state

You might be surprised at what you find–like this guardianship from the early 1920s that was appealed to the Illinois State Supreme Court.

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The “Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007″ at Ancestry.com  contains names of the parents of some “primary individuals” in the database. I’ve tried searching the last name parental fields for any ancestral couple who had a child living in 1936 or after. Might be a way to find some missing people!

When searching “Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007″ at Ancestry.com for women, remember to use their last name at death. Some women with multiple marriages may not show up with all those married names in the database.

Eva M. Fluegel appears in “Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007″ under her maiden name of Eva M. Trask and her final married name of Eva M. Fluegel. She does not appear under Eva M. Johnson–the last name of her first husband, two whom she was married for thirty years and with whom she had all her children. 

The Brooklyn Public Library has put 107 years of Brooklyn city directories online at Archive.org at no charge.