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 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. |