Tracing Your Female Ancestors - PDF eBook

Tracing Your Female Ancestors - PDF eBook

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Tracing Your Female Ancestors; Compiled by Gena Philibert-Ortega; 68 pps; Full Color; PDF eBook; Item # MM014-pdf

This book is also available as a saddled-stappled book.

WE’LL SHOW YOU HOW!

  • 25 Websites to Increase Success:
  • Plus Research Tips For:
    • Women in the Workforce
    • Women and the Vote
    • Women in Photographs
    • African American Ancestors
    • Women in the Civil War
    • Female Ancestors Pre-1850
    • The Secret Lives of Women
    • And Much More!

Includes a special look at Women in Photographs by Maureen Taylor

  • Introduction, tips and strategies to help you get started in your search for your female ancestors
  • Finding Your Pre-1850 Female Ancestors, we look at some key sources and offer some alternatives to locating female ancestors before 1850
  • 25 Online Sources, a list of key sites you should add to your internet toolbox
  • Women’s Clubs, when traditional sources aren’t enough, try locating your ancestor in clubs and other organizations
  • Tracing Your African American Female Ancestors, there are many resources available for researching your African American female ancestors
  • Jane S. Chatham Case Study, a look at one lady’s very difficult life and the sources used to piece it together
  • Women & Divorce, they didn’t do that in the good old days: researching your female ancestor’s divorce
  • Women’s Work, women were more than just housewives; they filled many different roles in peacetime and wartime
  • Secret Lives Of Women, search for your female ancestor in cookbooks, journals, quilting books and more
  • Manuscript Collections, manuscript collections can uncover details to help illustrate the life of your female ancestor
  • University Library Sources, university libraries are great repositories for additional information that might otherwise go unnoticed
  • Women In Photos, renowned photo expert, Maureen Taylor, shines some light on finding your ancestor in photographs
  • Women And The Vote, knowing more about the history of female suffrage can point you toward valuable resources
  • Women In The Civil War, you might be surprised to find out what your female ancestor did during the Civil War
  • Grandma Was An Alien? a look at how women became aliens in their own country
  • Writing Their Story, telling the story of your female ancestor is an important step in your ongoing genealogy research.