5 classesFinding Females Part 3 — The Social History of Women's Lives
Your female ancestors were more than names on a census. This five-part series brings their world to life. Discover how community cookbooks double as a "city directory for women," explore the many roles women played during World War I, learn why women before 1850 are especially hard to trace and how to find them anyway, meet the fishermen's wives who ran farms and finances alone for years at sea, and follow a real case study solving one pre-1850 woman's identity from a single, parentless marriage record. Bring her story to life!
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