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Finding Female Ancestors E-Course
Finding female ancestors hiding in the family tree can seem a daunting task at times! Why is that? There are a few reasons for that: Our female ancestors did not generate many early records of their own. Women changed their names upon marriage. Add in multiple marriages and a woman could been known by several names. Women are often hidden in the records of the men in their lives. Now imagine knowing where to search for those hidden females. Imagine knowing the common and uncommon records to research. Imagine the feeling of knowing you’ve done a complete search for your female ancestor. That’s totally possible for you! I started researching…
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How To Start Researching Your African American Female Ancestors
How to start your genealogy research into your African American female ancestors. Researching female ancestors is challenging, but possible! Genealogy research comes with many challenges, especially with regard to researching certain subsets of our ancestors. Once such group is women. Researching our female ancestors can require even more effort when it comes to those who are of African descent. In this post, I’ll offer a few suggestions for documenting the lives of our African American female ancestors. Like researching any female of days gone by, we often begin with learning everything we can about the men in their lives. Often, women will be mentioned in the records of their husbands,…
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Trouble researching female ancestors? Learn how to find those elusive females in your family tree with these genealogy research strategies. Her name is Joanna Barrett. Or is it? Is Barrett her maiden name or a married name? If a married name, is it from a first or second marriage? All I really know before Joanna ended up in Surry County, North Carolina, is that she was born in Ireland and had a daughter – also named Joanna – in America. Joanna is a brick wall female ancestor. We all have brick wall ancestors, and many of those brick walls represent female ancestors. While you might want to throw your hands…
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Tracing Female Ancestors Through A Child’s Records
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. We’ve discussed shifting our focus to your elusive female ancestor’s children in a previous post. [Go ahead and click over to read it. I’ll wait.] Now that you are convinced of the need to shift your focus off of the female ancestor you are researching, let’s take a closer look at this in action. Tracing Female Ancestors Through A Child’s Records We are starting with John…
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