What do I do now?

[CBHagman]

3. City directories are a great resource and so are newspapers.

I've spent quite a lot of time looking at city directories on microfilm at the Library of Congress. It was a good way of tracing ancestors around various cities, and it can be a way of identifying professions and employers.

Local newspapers are another great resource -- for wedding announcements, obituaries and more. There are times when I have narrowed an event down to a particular month and found it referenced in the newspaper.

Quite possibly there are other references to the mother via schools, clubs, houses of worship and more.

I can't guarantee that everything would be transcribed and/or digitized and online, but the name and the alma mater are good jumping-off points.

And as group members mentioned above, proceed with discretion. There are all sorts of reasons someone might not want to be found.