A genealogist's guide to discovering your female ancestors Special strategies for uncovering hard-to-find information about your female lineage
Book - 1998
Explains how to uses different sources to trace one's lineage.
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Cincinnati, Ohio :
Betterway Books
c1998.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Physical Description
- 152 p.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781558704725
- Introduction: The silent woman ; Exploring women's social history ; Writing your female ancestors' stories ; About this book
- 1. Sources created by women : Letters ; Diaries and journals ; Relatives' and friends' letters and diaries ; Finding letters and diaries ; Letters and diaries written by women like your ancestor ; Family bibles ; Family artifacts and heirlooms ; Oral history ; Legislative petitions
- 2. Sources created about women : Research strategies ; Researching in original records ; Some typical and atypical sources
- 3. Additional sources for ethnic women : African American women ; Native American women ; Jewish American women
- 4. Methods for determining maiden names and parents : Solving identity problems ; Case studies ; Other genealogists' methods for identifying women
- 5. Writing about women ancestors : Women's social history ; Social history topics ; Blending social and family history: some examples ; Documenting your ancestor's history
- 6. From start to finish: a case study of Mary Fitzhugh (Stuart) Fitzhugh : Home sources ; Published genealogical sources ; Population schedules ; Probate and court records ; Slave schedules ; Social history research ; Reading Mary Fitzhugh's biography
- Appendix A : An overview of women's legal rights in America : Property, inheritance and divorce laws ; Naturalization laws ; Widow's pension application acts
- Appendix B : Matrilineal research and genetics
- Appendix C : Source checklist for researching female ancestors