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Finding Your Female Ancestors
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Solving the Maiden Name Mystery
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The Social History of Women's Lives
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Finding Females Part 1 — Finding Your Female Ancestors

Female ancestors often vanish into the records—name changes, coverture laws, and gaps make them genealogy's toughest brick walls. This four-part series shows you how to find them anyway. Survey 50 record types that document women through every life stage, mine overlooked personal archives, uncover hidden sources women left behind, and master an advanced methodology for tracing wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters. Give her story back!

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50 Records that Document Female Ancestors
with Gena Philibert-Ortega
01:30:29
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Finding Your Elusive Female Ancestors in Local Archives
with Melissa Barker
01:24:35
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The Secret Lives of Women - Researching Female Ancestors Using the Sources They Left Behind
with Gena Philibert-Ortega
01:43:04
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Finding Females: Wives, Mothers, Daughters, Sisters & Paramours
with Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG®, CGL®
01:17:15

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Finding Females Part 2 — Solving the Maiden Name Mystery
A maiden name can feel impossible to find—until you know where to look. This four-part series tackles genealogy's most persistent female-ancestor puzzle. Learn the cluster and naming-pattern strategies that reveal a hidden identity, mine marriage records and case studies to crack tough mysteries, reconstruct families through spinsters' and widows' probate records, and uncover women hidden in naturalization law. Solve the unsolvable!

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CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETIONThis certificate is proudly presented toMember Namefor successfully completing the learning pathFinding Females Part 1 — Finding Your Female AncestorsPart 1 of 3August 25, 2026DATEGeoff RasmussenGeoff RasmussenFounder of Legacy Family Tree Webinars
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