Spinsters and Widows: Using Women to Reconstruct Families
Shannon Green, CG®, CGG®, CGL®
Content
Welcome
22s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 8s
Introduction
4m 46s
Why Focus on Women?
2m 56s
Case Study #1
17m 21s
Case Study #2
12m 0s
Records Created by Women
6m 30s
Annnouncements / prizes
1m 1s
Questions / answers
4m 16s
About this webinar
We frequently bemoan the dearth of records left by women, but records left by spinsters and widows can be particularly valuable for reconstructing families when properly analyzed. Many people neglect to research spinsters (women who never married) as they have no descendants, but to whom shall they leave their estates? Extended family! Tracing widows to see who they live with can reveal previously unknown family members. See examples where women’s records have illuminated familial relationships and learn strategies to apply to your own research.
About the speaker
Shannon Green, CG®, CGG®, CGL® , is a genealogy researcher, writer, and educator. She started looking into her ancestry in 2010 and has been debunking family lore, overturning family traditions, and w...
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Comments (92)
What a fascinating job of picking up clues! 100% agree on the line breaks in transcriptions.
Finally got to see this. Really great. A few more tracking trails to follow, and I look forward to seeing more of your webinars..
Thank you, I have new ways of researching my spinsters and widows. Can't wait
Very exciting case study, digging deep to find answers.
Interesting case studies
Very informative. I always like when presenters use actual case studies that they have done.
Great examples showing how you sketched descendancy charts as you explored each document/case study.
Excellent presentation, learned so much