Chasing Women - Finding Your Female Ancestors - Webinar on CD-Rom
Chasing Women - Finding Your Female Ancestors - Webinar on CD-Rom. The webinar was recorded February 16, 2011.
Recording this Webinar was fun, a bit frustrating because of technology challenges, and very worthwhile! I was able to cover numerous resources, with a wonderful response from a worldwide audience.
Locating the names of our female ancestors can be difficult - principally because their names changed upon marrying. Women historically have not produced as many records as their husbands, since women's suffrage largely did not exist until the twentieth century. This adds to the difficulty of finding their names, let alone the details of their lives. There are two major search areas that we deal with in locating women's names, the first being the search for their maiden names, and secondly, the search for their married names. One search can be as hard as the other, and you may find you are doing both types of searches on the same women. Join nationally-known speaker, author, and publisher, Leland K. Meitzler as he gives details on a wide variety of sources, starting with the obvious, and working its way through sources that you may not have thought of using previously.
Features
This class was presented to a live webinar (online seminar) audience on February 16, 2011. 1 hour 21 minutes.
Viewers' comments:
- Leland's info gave me a few more options in finding my historical ladies. This may just pull my ox out of the ditch.
- There was a lot of good information. I can hardly wait to try it out.
- Learned a few new tips and it was nice to get a refresher on old ones. I really liked hearing about the German Parrish Registries, that's going to be very helpful!
- Leland was terrific! Informative, entertaining, and enjoyable.
- Great info; could hear the passion in Leland's voice
- Enjoyed the many hints and can't wait to try out a few. Have enjoyed Leland's work with Heritage Quest and Gen. Helper in the past.
- I like having all of these sources in one place. When I finish checking one, I can just move to the next source. It will give some order to my research.
- I got so much info from the class. Can't wait to go searching with all the new ideas I just learned. Thanks so much for offering this webinar. I would be very interested in any other webinars that Leland gives.
- The information shared was excellent. The pace was good and I like the opportunity for Q&A at the end. I also like the ability to download his handouts. This is the first Legacy webinar I have attended. I hope to come to more.
- Great ideas, I think I can now break a brick-wall that is twenty years old!
- This webinar certainly opened my eyes to the importance of using records that I have not tried before.
- Soooo much good information of places to look. I'm encouraged! Thank you.
- Excellent review for those who have been researching a long time. Also, a great guide for newcomers.
- Leland was fantastic...he has given me so many more options for finding my female ancestors...I can hardly wait to get started. I especially found the German Parish Records information very helpful as I had hit a brick wall on many of them, now I have something to go on...thank you for these webinars.
- A LOT of great information! I have renewed energy now to find a few of my female in-laws!
About the author: Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company, and writes at GenealogyBlog.com.
System Requirements: PC or Mac with Windows installed (using Boot Camp, Parallels, etc.). Windows XP or higher, CD-Rom drive, speakers, Adobe Reader to view handouts, Internet connection to download handouts.