Finding Your Elusive Female Ancestors in Local Archives
Melissa Barker
Content
Welcome
1m 26s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 24s
Introduction
3m 8s
Before Marriage
5m 1s
First Things First
5m 21s
The Myth
7m 56s
Charity or Volunteer Work
8m 42s
Social and Civic Clubs
2m 46s
Food and Recipes
8m 6s
The Late Bloomers
4m 30s
The Keeper
10m 2s
The Mrs Hurdle
2m 10s
Archived Records
12m 8s
Announcements / prizes
3m 14s
Questions / answers
8m 41s
About this webinar
Local archives of all kinds have records for your female ancestors. Many times, these records are not digitized or available online. Learn from a seasoned archivist how to locate and research female records in local archives.
About the speaker
Melissa Barker is a Certified Archives Manager and Public Historian currently working at the Houston County, Tennessee Archives & Museum where she has been the first and only archivist for the pas...
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Comments (115)
Interesting topic. My female ancestors worked since their husbands died. My GGG Grandmother worked until 90. As a birthday present from her employer she was let go. She lived another 10 to 12 years.
So many good reminders of what we should be paying attnention to and places to go for finding new information and clues
Very interesting. Lots of great ideas for sharing.
Great suggestions for "thinking outside the box" to find more info on female ancestors besides the usual birth, marriage, & death dates.
She was excellent, as usual! I'm going to go back and review more of her webinars!
Melissa described me and one of my cousins to a 'T', I am the 'archivist' and she is the 'scrapbooker'. We live more than 200 miles apart, but with computers and internet access we communicate frequently. Even tho' we have been doing this for over 30 years, Melissa had a few ideas we can incorporate. Thank you, Melissa.
Incredibly inspiring!! Thank you so much for advocating for women; indeed, no female ancestor is ever "just" a housewife! She is a whole person in her own right, with her own stories to tell and deserves to be thoroughly researched and remembered just like everyone else. Credit needs to be given where credit is due :)
Interesting