Finding hidden females in your genealogy research can be challenging. Follow the tips in this blog post to put one proven strategy to work.
Your female ancestors were not allowed to do several things that you are allowed to do today.
Tracing Your Female Ancestors in the 1939 Register By Sue Forshaw MLFHS This blog is one of a series by members of the Lancashire and Manchester Family History Society in celebration of our female …
Finding your female ancestors can be a big challenge for genealogists. Probate records are a great resource to help you trace the women in your tree.
Finding your female ancestors can be a big challenge for genealogists. Probate records are a great resource to help you trace the women in your tree.
If you can’t find your women ancestors, try religious records. These resources began before civil registration and can have details not in other records.
Genealogical clues to your female ancestors are hiding in the pre-1850 census records. Include early census records in your genealogy research!
When you are researching your family history, you will obviously come across female ancestors. Female ancestors can be more difficult to trace because they invariably changed their name when they got married, taking on their husband's surname. Women's roles in history have been less recorded than that of their male counterparts, so invariably did not
Introduction: Gena Philibert-Ortega is a genealogist and author of the book “From the Family Kitchen.” In this guest blog post, to help celebrate Mother’s
Tracking down our female ancestors requires thinking "outside the box". Always focusing on her may not yield the desired results. By taking our focus off of our female ancestor, we can be sure of exhausting all possibilities of finding her in the records.
Have you wondered if females can trace their paternal line? Females do have options for learning where their direct-line paternal ancestors came from.
Gena Philibert-Ortega shows how newspaper articles about the charity organizations your female ancestor belonged to help your family history research.
If you can’t find your women ancestors, try religious records. These resources began before civil registration and can have details not in other records.
Resources for Researching Your Female Ancestor, Day # 23 Library Confusion by Sam Hood via Flickr The Commons, http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/5748745311/ Looking for more information about researching female ancestors? You may be interested in reading the following sources: Carmack, Sharon D. B. A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Female Ancestors: Special Strategies for Uncovering Hard-to-Find Information About Your Female Lineage. Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 1998. Schaefer, Christina K. The Hidden Half of the Family: A Sourcebook for Women's Genealogy. Baltimore, Md: Genealogical Pub. Co, 1999. Tracing Your Female Ancestors. A Special issue of Family Chronicle Magazine by Gena Philibert-Ortega Ward, Margaret. Female Occupations: Women's Employment 1850-1950. Newbury, England: Countryside Books, 2008. Ward, Margaret. Female Occupations: Women's Employment 1850-1950. Newbury, England: Countryside Books, 2008. What's your favorite how-to book for researching female ancestors?
Moorshead Magazines is the publisher of Family Chronicle, and Internet Genealogy. Occasionally, the company releases a special collection of articles on a key genealogical topic. Tracing Your Female Ancestors is the latest special release by the company. Published in a magazine format, this release offers 16 articles on key areas of Women’s history and genealogical […]
Genealogical clues to your female ancestors are hiding in the pre-1850 census records. Include early census records in your genealogy research!
If you can’t find your women ancestors, try religious records. These resources began before civil registration and can have details not in other records.
Finding your female ancestors can be a big challenge for genealogists. Probate records are a great resource to help you trace the women in your tree.
Searching for a female ancestor? Check the newspaper social columns, which can be a valuable tool in 19th and 20th century genealogy research.
Introduction: Gena Philibert-Ortega is a genealogist and author of the book “From the Family Kitchen.” In this guest blog post, to help celebrate Mother’s
Tracking down our female ancestors requires thinking "outside the box". Always focusing on her may not yield the desired results. By taking our focus off of our female ancestor, we can be sure of exhausting all possibilities of finding her in the records.
Can’t find your female ancestors? Try researching wives and widows with Civil War, Spanish American War, and other veterans’ pension records.
Finding your female ancestors can be a big challenge for genealogists. Probate records are a great resource to help you trace the women in your tree.
Finding your female ancestors can be a big challenge for genealogists. Probate records are a great resource to help you trace the women in your tree.
Finding your female ancestors can be a big challenge for genealogists. Probate records are a great resource to help you trace the women in your tree.
Finding your female ancestors can be a big challenge for genealogists. Probate records are a great resource to help you trace the women in your tree.
The dictionary tells us that being invisible is being inconspicuous, unobtrusive, and unnoticeable. From a researcher’s point of view, tracing the life movements of invisible women creates many challenges.
To better know some of the types of occupations our female ancestors would have done, you do have to know some of the common terms used years ago, so when you see that name listed you can better figure out what your ancestor did as a job.
In this article, to celebrate Women’s History Month, Mary Harrell-Sesniak provides practical tips to help you search for your female ancestors.
Here are some suggestions for finding your female ancestor's maiden name.
Explore an unusual genealogy research strategy to find the females in the family tree. Elusive female ancestors may be hiding in their children's records.
Can’t find your female ancestors? Try researching wives and widows with Civil War, Spanish American War, and other veterans’ pension records.
How to research the women in your family. Genealogy research advice and links to help you research the women in your family tree.
In this article, to celebrate Women’s History Month, Mary Harrell-Sesniak provides practical tips to help you search for your female ancestors.
Can’t find your female ancestors? Try researching wives and widows with Civil War, Spanish American War, and other veterans’ pension records.
How to research the women in your family. Genealogy research advice and links to help you research the women in your family tree.
Finding your female ancestors can be a challenge, but these six tips will help you find those elusive women in your family history.
Genealogical clues to your female ancestors are hiding in the pre-1850 census records. Include early census records in your genealogy research!
Searching for female ancestors? Turn your search toward these genealogical records.
Trouble researching female ancestors? Learn how to find those elusive females in your family tree with these genealogy research strategies.
Explore an unusual genealogy research strategy to find the females in the family tree. Elusive female ancestors may be hiding in their children's records.
Finding your female ancestors can be a big challenge for genealogists. Probate records are a great resource to help you trace the women in your tree.
Finding your female ancestors can be a big challenge for genealogists. Probate records are a great resource to help you trace the women in your tree.
Finding your female ancestors can be a big challenge for genealogists. Probate records are a great resource to help you trace the women in your tree.
