Genealogy - Researching Female Ancestors

Bertha Josephine Larson (5)

Her Story - Discovering the Personal Side of Your Female Ancestors

The story of Berta Josephine Larson and the story of tracing her genealogy -- as an example of tracing the genealogy of a woman in one's family tree.

Her Story - Discovering Female Ancestors Through Letters, Diaries, and

About letters and diaries as sources of information for researching historical women or women in your family tree.

Her Story - Discovering Women Through Family Heirlooms and Oral Histor

About the use of family heirlooms and mementors, or oral history, to research the stories of historical women or women ancestors.

Her Story - Placing Your Female Ancestors in Historical Cont

Use timelines of general historical events to look at the ocntext of the life of a particular woman your're researching. Postcards can also provide some context or direct evidence for the events and feelings of her life. Recipe books, advice books, and other similar publications can also provide some historical context. Newspapers can provide both context and details about a particular life.

Her Story - Placing Women in Social Context

In researching a woman's life story, research into the general social conditions of the day will also be useful. What laws affected her life and how were they different? How was a "good marriage" defined at that time? And so on.

Her Story - Women's Fashion & Couture

If you've got photographs of the woman you're researching -- great! But even if you don't, you can research fashion of her time and get some idea of what she would have looked like in her everyday life.

Supplying the Bricks of History: Writing Women's Lives

Review of a book that helps women write their life stories for personal development and for use in historical research.