A Lesson in Alternate Spellings...

     While looking over our grandfather George Burns' siblings, I had a nagging gap of information.  I had never found the death record for his sister Frances.  I knew she had married and had a son.  I found his birth record in the Minnesota Birth Index as William Waller. In newspaper articles, Frances was referred to as Mrs. W. H. Waller.  Well....
     I had never considered an alternate spelling!  Someone on Ancestry used the spelling Wallar.  My gap resolved.  Her husband's name was actually Henry Wentworth Wallar. 
     I should have known to be more creative!  Experiences trying to find out Stella Lazewski's real maiden name and looking for Dohertys in indices should have reinforced this for me!