Farmington Online Genealogical Indexes:
How to Use the Search Tool

The Search Tool screen looks like this:

The obituary index can be searched by last name, first name, soundex code, and date of death.
The maiden name and surname indices can only be searched by first or last names, or by soundex code.
Date searches work even if only one or two of day, month or year are known. However, searches for day and year, without month, may be slower.
Entering more criteria narrows the search. Entering less widens it.
Name entries are treated as partial values; e.g. if "Will" is entered, it would match "Williams" as well.
Some data is necessarily missing from the index, due to e.g. newspaper clipping lacking dates, etc. Some few first names (e.g. children who died at birth, who are listed like "SON OF _fathers name_"), as well as some death and obituary dates were not available to the compilers of the index. You may have to allow for this when searching the index.
The index will display no more than 100 matches at one time.