March is Women's History Month and this year's theme is "Women Change America."
This year I thought I'd help you change American by providing you with links that explain how to locate your female ancestors. As you know, if you have been doing genealogy work for any length of time, our women ancestors are almost invisible. I'm going to rectify this situation by showing you how to find those illusive women.
The best way to locate your women ancestors is by discovering their maiden name through marriage records. For more detailed information read: Chasing Women: Marriage Records and Their Value in Locating Female Ancestors.
After marriage records the next best way to locate a woman's maiden name is on birth records. These are sometimes hard to find if you don't have the supporting information. For more detailed information read: Chasing women: How Birth Records Can Help in Locating Female Ancestors. http://www.heritagequest.com/magonline/html/l_010605.html
After birth records you can look into Military Records for a woman's maiden name. This will help in a lot of cases. For more detailed information read: Finding Your Female Ancestors with Military Records. http://www.heritagequest.com/magonline/html/l_010626.html
Your next step is to locate death records. This will sometimes list the maiden name. For more detailed information read: Using Death Records to Locate the Ladies in your Lineage. http://www.heritagequest.com/magonline/html/l_010612.html
Our next stop is the census records. Here is a wonderful article on how to use them correctly. For more information read: Census records - Locating women in the census. http://www.heritagequest.com/magonline/html/l_010619.html
Next you would look to cemeteries and tombstone inscriptions along with church records, letters and diaries.
Here are a few more places to obtain great research information:
Finding Female Ancestors – Article http://www.genealogy.com/50_donna.html
Cyndi's List of Female Ancestors http://www.cyndislist.com/female.htm
Female Ancestors Listing and Marriage Record Database http://www.genealinks.com/female.htm Dear Diary: Discovering Your Female Ancestors http://www.genealogy.com/87_carmack.html
Women Genealogy Sites http://www.all-genealogysites.com/Colonial_America/Revolutionary_War/Women/
Now, in keeping with this month's tribute here are some links to help you discover everything about Women's History Month for 2005.
"Women Change America" 2005 Theme http://www.nwhp.org/whm/themes/themes.html
The 2004 National Women's History Month Honorees http://www.nwhp.org/tlp/biographies/honorees04.html
Women's History Month Proclamation http://www.nwhp.org/whm/2004/proclamation.html
Women's History Month Checklist http://www.nwhp.org/whm/themes/checklist.html
The Story of Women's National History Month http://www.nwhp.org/whm/themes/history-of.html
Notable Women Ancestors http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/
Notable Native American Women http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/native.html
Ok, that's it for this week.
Until next week Miigwech and mino-nibaan.
Bluedolphin Crow
Bluedolphin Crow is a Freelance Writer and Author. She specializes in Genealogy and Alternative Health topics. To view her articles go to her Author's Den. To see information on her upcoming books Click Here and scroll to the bottom of the page.
The Family Tree
There are numerous genealogy sites out there that feature an assortment of articles on documentation of records for doing your genealogy search. We will look at how genealogy sites and the tools they offer will assist you to carry on a search.
Geni Enables Genealogy Community to Build Family Trees From GEDCOM Files In Bid to Become #1 Family Networking Site
Top rated genealogy and family networking site Geni.com announced today that genealogists can now import their family history into Geni using the popular GEDCOM format. The launch of this features makes it easy to move their research into Geni to easily share it with their family.
10 No-Fee Resources for Climbing Your Family Tree Online
As the Webmaster of a genealogy website, I'm often asked if it's possible to find family tree data that doesn't come with a price tag. My answer is yes! My favorite no-fee sites are:1.
Essentials of Genealogy - Getting Started with Your FamilyTree
Since genealogy is my hobby, my profession, and my passion, many people ask me how to get started. What are the essentials to doing a family search? Here are some tips that should help you discover your family under the best possible conditions.
Genealogy To Enrich The Curricula
Government Record: Atlanta Public Records Filing Government
New Biography Website Preserves Family History and Genealogy Through Reminiscing and Storytelling
Now family genealogy and personal biographies can be preserved online for generations to come. Familyware.com allows anyone to reminisce and create a social biography from stories and photos provided by those who were there. It's never been more fun or rewarding to preserve family history.
Genealogy in Switzerland - A Longenecker Family Search
I recently visited Langnau, Bern, Switzerland and spent two days immersed in all things Langenegger. My wife and I arrived at the Langnau rail station on June 25, 2004, exhausted from a long flight from San Francisco.
Looking For Relatives Research Your Genealogy
Family Tree provides detailed information on the families past history. To organize your research you need to create a worksheet of your family tree. There are many tools to use to help start the process of your family tree, they are not expensive and widely available, and they are great tools for organizing. Studying genealogy will give you the knowledge you will need to understand your ancestry, and it will help in creating the family tree. The family tree is a graphical representation of how the family fits and is related to each other. To make it easier it is a good idea to separate the generations, this will make it easier for tracing the family roots. By seeing the generations it is a good rule of thumb of you your family tree will...
Searching Family Genealogy
Once I started digging into my family's history I was hooked. I started my search by talking to family members and was able to get a lot of information from them. My various family members had lots of important information they shared with me. I got lots of dates of birth, dates of death and marriage records. I was able to get copies of some old newspaper articles about my great-grandfather who was a prominent citizen in Michigan, but I wanted to know more. I took my search online.
Trace Your Roots Through A Family Tree
What is a Family Tree? A family tree is like a pedigree for human beings. It is used to record the individual's ancestors over a number of generations. Family trees can be very simple, recording only immediate ancestors. They may also be very elaborate, recording siblings and intermarriages, resulting in a far more detailed version of the individual's history. An individual might choose to pursue his or her own edification, or it may be pursued to answer medical questions or other questions the individual may have pertaining to his or her family history. A family tree is also known as a "genealogical tree."
Barack Obama is Related to Brad Pitt? Mensa Genealogy Colloquium Helps Uncover Your Unknown Relatives
Hosted by the Mensa Education & Research Foundation, members of Mensa and non-members alike will gather at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center to learn various ways to define their family research goals, organize their research and share tricks and tactics to finding information about long-lost relatives and distant cousins.
PersonalButPolite.com - Filling in the Family Tree Blanks
Using personal announcement columns from old newspapers for genealogy research helps provide clues that may otherwise not exist.
Genealogy / Family History
One huge advantage of knowing about family history is that sometimes it can help you to trace and pinpoint occurrences of illness.My father and two of my brothers had all died of heart attacks at a fairly young age.
Family Trees, Genealogy Take Root at TreeX.com, Newly Launched Web Site
September marks the launch of TreeX.com, a new online interface in which friends, relatives and professional genealogists can work together or alone to create family trees and keep track of family history.
Genealogy - Why You Should Get Involved in Your Family History
A few years ago I read a statistic that said that genealogy was the second largest hobby in the United States – second only to gardening. It was no surprise to me as I have been finding and documenting my family tree for almost 30 years.