Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - A Fearless Female Post

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:

It's Saturday Night again -

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):

1) Check out Lisa Alzo's "Fearless Females 2023" blog post prompts and write about one of them.

 

2)  Put it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please leave a link in a comment to this post.

Here's mine:

1)  I chose the March 2 prompt, which reads:

"March 2 — Post a photo of one of your female ancestors. Who is in the photo? When was it taken? Why did you select this photo?

 2)  One of my favorite photographs is from early 1920:

This photo has five of my fearless females in it!    It was taken in front of the Henry Austin and Della (Smith) Carringer home at 2105 Hawthorn Street in San Diego, on the northeastern corner of 30th Street and Hawthorn Street.  It was a two-story Victorian home with gingerbread trimming around the porch.  Austin and Della built it in the late 1890s.  In the late 1920s, they moved the house to the middle of the block and made it two apartment flats - now 2115 30th and 2119 30th (I grew up in that apartment).

This is a four generation family photograph.  From left, the persons in the photograph are:

*  Georgianna (Kemp) Auble (seated, 1868-1952), my great-grandmother and mother of Emily Kemp (Auble) Carringer. 

*  Mary Ann "Matie" (Smith) (Chenery) (Cramer) Morrill (standing, 1866-1922), sister to Della Smith.

*  Abbie Ardelle  "Della" (Smith) Carringer (seated holding the cat Buster, 1862-1944), my great-grandmother and mother of Lyle Lawrence Carringer.

*  Harvey Edgar Carringer (standing in the hat, 1852-1946), brother to Henry Austin Carringer.

*  Emily Kemp (Auble) Carringer (standing, 1899-1977), my maternal grandmother, wife of Lyle Lawrence Carringer, mother of Betty Virginia (Carringer) Seaver, and daughter of Georgianna (Kemp) Auble.

*  Henry Austin Carringer (seated holding Betty, 1853-1946), my great-grandfather, husband of Della (Smith) Carringer, and father of Lyle Lawrence Carringer.

*  Betty Virginia (Carringer) Seaver (on Austin's lap, 1919-2002), my mother, daughter of Lyle and Emily (Auble) Carringer.

*  Lyle Lawrence Carringer (standing on right, 1891-1976), my maternal grandfather, son of Henry and Della (Smith) Carringer, husband of Emily Kemp (Auble) Carringer, and father of Betty Virginia Carringer.

*  Abigail "Abbie" (Vaux) Smith (seated at right, 1844-1931), my 2nd great-grandmother, mother of Della (Smith) Carringer.

Georgianna, Della, Emily, Betty and Abbie are my fearless female ancestors in the photograph. 

 The photograph was colorized using the MyHeritage tools.

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Your Fearless Females Education

 It's Saturday Night - 

time for more Genealogy Fun! 

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to:

1)  It's National Women's History Month, so I'm going to use today's prompt from Lisa Alzo.  What education did your mother receive? Your grandmothers? Great-grandmothers? Note any advanced degrees or special achievements.

2) Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post. Be sure to leave a link with your answers in a comment.

Here's mine:

a)  My mother, Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) went to elementary school, junior high school, and high school (San Diego High) in San Diego, California.  She was an excellent student.  She attended San Diego State College from 1937 to 1940, majoring in Art History, and received a Bachelor of Science degree, and served on the school yearbook committee.   She went on to teach Art to junior high students, and was an artist specializing in copper enamel works after her children were raised.

b)  My maternal grandmother, Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977) went to elementary school in Chciago, and then high school in San Diego, graduating in 1917 from San Diego High School.  She married Lyle Carringer in 1918, and received no further formal education.  She had an interest in gardens and flower arrangements, and became a judge of flower arrangement in the San Diego area shows and fairs.  

c)  My paternal grandmother, Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) attended elementary school and high school in Leominster, Massachusetts, and married Frederick Seaver in 1900.  She was an accomplished piano player and organist, serving many years in Leominster churches.

d)  The one great-grandmother that I know had some talent was Abbie Ardell "Della" Smith (1862-1944, who went to elementary school and high school in Concordia, Kansas, and married Henry Austin Carringer in 1887.  She had some musical and acting talent - I have playbills from the Wano, Kansas playhouse in the 1885-1886 time showing her playing leading roles.  

I don't know a lot about the schooling or talents of my other great-grandmothers - Georgianna Kemp (1868-1952) from Delhi, Ontario; Harriet Hildreth (1857-1922) from Leominster, Massachusetts; and Julia E. White (1848-1913).  My guess is that they all attended some school, but none of them attended college.  

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Fearless Females!

It's Saturday Night - 

time for more Genealogy Fun! 

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to:

1)  Lisa Alzo developed a series of Fearless Female writing prompts 10 years ago to celebrate National Women's History Month.  This year's listing of prompts is in Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Fearless Females Blogging Prompts.

2)  Today is March 14, so the writing prompt is:  "Newsmakers? Did you have a female ancestor who made the news? Why? Was she famous or notorious? Did she appear in the social column?"  If you cannot write about that prompt, choose another one from the list.

3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a post on Facebook.

Here's mine:

I'm going to choose the March 5th prompt - "How did they meet? You’ve documented marriages, now, go back a bit. Do you know the story of how your parents met? Your grandparents?"

From the story I heard from my mother, and from my father's first cousin, Dorothy (Taylor) Chamberlain and her daughter, Marcia, the story of how my father met my mother goes like this:

*  My father, Frederick Walton Seaver, drove to San Diego in December 1940 from New England in three days, and was staying with his cousin's family (Marshall and Dorothy (Taylor) Chamberlain, and their daughter, Marcia).  They lived at 4601 Terrace Drive in the Kensington neighborhood of San Diego.

*  My mother, Betty Virginia Carringer, was an Art and English teacher at Woodrow Wilson Junior High School, about a half mile away from the Chamberlain's home.  

*  Marcia Chamberlain was a student at Woodrow Wilson Junior High, and was in the Art community there (but did not have Betty as her teacher, but knew her).  

*  After a period of time, around the dinner table one night, Fred said "I need a girl friend..." and Marcia piped up "I know a pretty Art teacher."  

*  Somehow the contact was made, Betty was invited to a dinner at the Chamberlain's to meet Fred, and Seaver family history in San Diego was made!  

*  Fred and Betty were married on 12 July 1942 at All Saints Episcopal Church in San Diego, and resided in Chula Vista until Fred enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1944.  They both worked at Rohr Corporation prior to son Randy's birth in October 1943.

In Dorothy's last years in the 1980s, Linda and I took her out for lunch occasionally, and invariably she would tell this story to us as if it was new to our ears.

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CANCELED: SDGS Meeting on Saturday, 14 March Features Gena Philibert-Ortega

UPDATED:  Canceled due to Corona Virus panic.

The next meeting of the San Diego Genealogical Society is this Saturday, 14 March 2020 at 10 a.m. at St. Andrews Lutheran Church (8350 Lake Murray Blvd., San Diego CA 92119).  

The program speaker for both sessions is Gena Philibert-Ortega.  Her presentations will be:

10 a.m.:       25 Tips For Researching Your Female Ancestors

11:30 a.m.:  The Secret Lives of Women: Research Female Ancestors Using the Sources They Left Behind

Why is finding a female ancestor so difficult? One reason is the way we research their lives. Successful research must combine familiar genealogical sources and the specific sources that women left behind. It is the sources that women authored or participated in that tell us their unique story.  In this lecture we look at the specific trail women left including signature quilts, community cookbooks, journals, and diaries.

The public is always welcome!  There is no charge for this program.

There are two classes in the upstairs classrooms at 9 a.m.

*  Local Resources, with Susi Pentico.

*  Reunion, with Anna Alves.

Space is limited. Register at sdgsclasses@gmail.com prior to a class so that space and enough handouts are available.

 Please park in the main church parking lot, in the Jackson Drive parking lot, or street parking along Jackson Drive.  DO NOT park in the neighboring strip mall.  Carpooling is encouraged.  

Thank you in advance.

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CVGS Presents Gena Philibert-Ortega on Wednesday, 29 January 2020

The January general meeting of the Chula Vista Genealogical Society is Wednesday, 29 January 2020 at 12 noon at the Chula Vista Civic Center Branch Library (365 F Street, Chula Vista CA 91910).  

The program will be "20 Places to Find a Maiden Name" presented by Gena Philibert-Ortega.

“What’s her maiden name????” is the question Gena get asked the most. Knowing where to find it is half the battle. In this presentation she will look at 20 documents that provide a woman’s maiden name and discuss strategies for uncovering it.

Gena Philibert-Ortega is an author, researcher, and instructor whose focus is genealogy, social and women's history. She holds a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies (Psychology and Women's Studies) and a Master’s degree in Religion. Her published works include two books, numerous articles published in magazines and online, two volumes of Tracing Female Ancestors (Moorshead Publishing), Tracing Your Ancestors: Hispanic Research (Moorshead Publishing) and a QuickGuide from Legacy Family Tree.

She is the editor of the Utah Genealogical Association’s magazine, Crossroads. Her writings can be found on her blogs, Gena’s Genealogy and Food.Family.Ephemera as well as the GenealogyBank blog. She is a course instructor for The National Institute for Genealogical Studies. She has presented to diverse groups worldwide including the National Genealogical Society Conference, the Alberta Genealogical Society Conference, the Geo-Literary Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Legacy Family Tree Webinar series.

Her research projects include Sowerby’s British Mineralogy: Its Influence on Martha Proby and Others in the Scientific Community during the 19th Century for the Gemological Institute of America, as well as genealogical research for the first season of PBS’s Genealogy Roadshow and the Travel Channel’s Follow Your Past. Her current research includes women's repatriation and citizenship in the 20th century, foodways and community in fundraising cookbooks, and women's material culture.

Following the presentation by our guest speaker there will be a short business meeting,  raffle drawings, refreshments and fellowship to complete the program.

Please register soon if you plan to attend this meeting so that we may better plan for this event.

Attendance is free!

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San Diego Genealogical Society Program Meeting on Saturday, 10 November

The November program meeting of the San Diego Genealogical Society (SDGS) is on Saturday, 10 November 2018 at 10 a.m. at St. Andrew's Lutheran Church in San Diego (8350 Lake Murray Blvd, near Jackson Drive).  

The feature speaker for both sessions is Gena Philibert-Ortega:

Gena's two talks will be:

*  10 a.m.:  Wives, Girlfriends, Widows, Spinsters, Exes and Mistresses: Documenting Women's Relationships

*  11:30 a.m.:  Her Name was Not Unknown: Finding Female Ancestors

Gena's biography includes:

Gena Philibert-Ortega is an author, researcher, and instructor whose focus is genealogy, social and women's history. She holds a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies (Psychology and Women's Studies) & a Master’s degree in Religion. Her published works include 3 books, numerous articles published in magazines and online, & Tracing Female Ancestors (Moorshead Publishing). She is the editor of the Utah Genealogical Association’s magazine, Crossroads. Her writings can also be found on the GenealogyBank blog. She has presented to diverse groups including the National Genealogical Society Conference, Alberta Genealogical Society Conference, Geo-Literary Society, & the Legacy Family Tree Webinar series. Her research projects include Sowerby’s British Mineralogy: Its Influence on Martha Proby and Others in the Scientific Community during the 19th Century for the Gemological Institute of America, as well as genealogical research for the first season of PBS’s Genealogy Roadshow & the Travel Channel’s Follow Your Past. Her current research includes women's repatriation and citizenship in the 20th century, foodways and community in fundraising cookbooks, & women's material culture. There will be a short business meeting between the two presentations, with snacks and drinks. The 9 a.m. classes have been cancelled due to venue problems.  In the 9 a.m. hour, there will be two classes in the upstairs classrooms: *  Writing about your family, by Claire McKarns.  Now that you have the skeleton, it is time to put some meat on the bones. We need to tell the stories of our families in a way that will interest those whose eyes glaze over when we start to describe our research. We will explore several ways of bringing the dead ancestors to life and make them real to the readers. *   Roots Magic, by Randy Seaver.  RootsMagic is a comprehensive software tool which helps you research, organize and share your genealogy information. It is appropriate for all levels from beginner to professional. This class will discuss many of its multitude of features and show you how to use them.

There is limited seating for these classes, and an RSVP is required (to sdgsclasses@gmail.com)  for a spot if you plan to attend. For more information about these classes, please check the calendar of events.

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Lunch With a Fearless Female

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music):

1)  This is March, the month for Fearless Females posts, started by Lisa Alzo of The Accidental Genealogist blog - see her Fearless Females blogging prompts for 2017 at   http://www.theaccidentalgenealogist.com/2017/02/fearless-females-blogging-prompts.html.

2)  Answer this question for March 16 (I've changed it a bit): If you could have lunch with any female family member (living or dead), or any famous female, who would it be and why? Where would you go? What would you talk about?

3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a comment on Facebook or Google+.

Here's mine:

a)  WHO:  I would choose my 3rd great-grandmother, Sophia (Buck) (Brigham) (Newton) Stone (1797-1882).  She was the daughter of  Isaac Buck (1757-1846) and Martha Phillips (1764-18??) of Holden and Sterling, Massachusetts.  She married (1) Lambert Brigham (1794-1834) of Westborough, Mass., and they had two sons, Augustus Brigham (1820-1909) and Aurelius Brigham (1830-1878).  

After Lambert Brigham died, she apparently married Thomas J. Newton (1800?-after 1835?), who was probably born in Maine.  She had a daughter, Sophia Newton (1834?-1922) and a son, Thomas J. Newton (1836-1915) with this husband, apparently in Vermont.

By the 1850 U.S. Census she is residing in Northborough, Mass. with her daughter, Sophia Newton, who married Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) in 1852 in Northborough, Mass.  In 1862, Sophia marries, thirdly, Jonathan Stone (1795-1868) in Westborough.  Sophia died in 1882 in Westborough, Mass.

b)  WHERE:  I think I would go with her to the church in Sterling, Mass. where she married Lambert Brigham.  We could sit in a quiet place in the garden, perhaps have a drink, and talk.  We might go to a restaurant in Sterling for lunch.

c)  WHY:  I have so many questions about her life, especially the fathers of her two Newton children.  But I would want to know all about:

*  Her Buck family - her father was a Revolutionary War soldier, and they were very poor.   What were her parents like?  What was her childhood like?  Where did they live?  When did her mother die?  Did she stay in touch with her siblings?  

*  Her Brigham family - she had two sons by her first husband, Lambert Brigham, who died in 1834.  What was Lambert's occupation, what did he die of, how did she manage after he died?

*  Her Newton family - she had two children, apparently by her second husband, Thomas J. Newton, probably in 1834 and 1836.  What was his birth date and place, and who were his parents?  When and where did she meet and marry Thomas?  Where were Sophia and Thomas born?  Were they really Thomas's children?  Or was one or both a Brigham child?  Why did they go to Vermont after their marriage?  When did she return to the Westborough area with with her children?  What happened to her two oldest Brigham sons after she married Thomas - did they go to Vermont and back, or did they stay with family in the Westborough area?  What stories did she have of daughter Sophia's childhood and marriage to Edward Hildreth?  Did she know and enjoy her grandchildren, including Harriet Hildreth (1857-1920)?  

*  Her Stone family - when did she meet Jonathan Stone, and why did she marry him?  How did she support herself after he died in 1868?  

There are so many questions, and so few answers.  

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Fearless Females

It's Saturday Night, 

time for more Genealogy Fun!!

For this week's mission (should you decide to accept it), I challenge you to:

1)  The month of March is for celebrating and honoring the "fearless females" in our families.  See Lisa Alzo's list of prompts for this year at  http://www.theaccidentalgenealogist.com/2015/02/back-for-sixth-year-fearless-females.html .

2)  The prompt for today is:  "March 7 — Share a favorite recipe from your mother or grandmother’s kitchen. Why is this dish your favorite? If you don’t have one that’s been passed down, describe a favorite holiday or other meal you shared with your family."

If that prompt doesn't work for you, select another one from the list.

3)  Share your "Fearless Female" story on your own blog, in a comment on this blog post, or in a post on Facebook or Google+.  Be sure to link back to your post in a comment on this blog post.

Here's mine:

I'm going to pick another prompt, since I don't have favorite recipes from my mother and grandmothers.  My prompt choice is:

March 12 — Working girl: Did your mother or grandmother work outside the home? What did she do? Describe her occupation.

1)  My mother, Betty Virginia (Carringer) Seaver (1919-2002) worked outside the home as an unmarried woman and early in her marriage before children arrived.  She graduated from San Diego State College in June 1940 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Art.  Starting in the fall of 1940, she taught Art and English at Woodrow Wilson Junior High School in San Diego for at least two years, perhaps three.  

After she married my father in July 1942, she worked at Rohr Aircraft Company as a secretary to the Chief of Engineering.  Then I came along in October 1943.  My father went in the U.S. Navy in August 1944 and I think my mother went back to teaching in September 1944 at Memorial Junior High School in San Diego.  She was living with her parents at the time, and they supervised little Randy's life.  

After World War II ended, my brother Stanley came along in September 1946 and she had her hands full with two small children, a husband looking for work, and an apartment to manage.  

After that, I don't think that she worked outside the home.  

2)  My maternal grandmother, Emily Kemp (Auble) Carringer (1899-1977), worked outside the home in the 1925-1940 time frame, at Marston's Department Store in downtown San Diego.  She was a saleslady according to the San Diego City Directories.  My grandfather worked at Marston's also.  

3)  My paternal grandmother, Alma Bessie (Richmond) Seaver, was the organist and occasional choir director at several churches in the Leominster, Massachusetts area in the 1920 to 1960 time period.  

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - A Fearless Females Prompt

It's Saturday Night - 

time for more Genealogy Fun! 

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:

1)  Read Lisa Alzo's blog post Back for a Fourth Year: Fearless Females: 31 Blogging Prompts to Celebrate Women's History Month on her blog, The Accidental Genealogist.  [Yes, I know it was last year, but Lisa's using the same list this year.]

2)  Choose one of her daily blog prompts from the list (this is March 8th, do that one if you don't want to choose another), and write about it.

3)  Tell us about it in a blog post of your own, in a comment to this blog post, in a Facebook post or a Google+ post.

Here's mine:

I'm going to choose the March 8th prompt :  "Did one of your female ancestors leave a diary, journal, or collection of letters? Share an entry or excerpt."

My great-grandmother, Della (Smith) Carringer (1862-1944) kept a scrapbook, wrote letters to family and friends, and kept a journal for at least one year, 1929.  I have transcribed the journal in my Della's Journal series.  

I have transcribed several of the letters that were in the "collection" of artifacts, ephemera and papers.  One of them has been very useful - a rough draft of a letter she wrote to at least one sister or cousin, and perhaps to several of them.  Here it is:

Letter from Della (Smith) Carringer to her "cousins" (unspecified). Undated, although it is probably October 1903. No envelope. The letter is on “Greetings from Southern California” letterhead, with three pictures (copyright 1901 by Edw. H. Mitchell S.F.):

San Diego
510 Watkins Ave.

Dear Cousins,

Your good letter recived and I was so surprised to hear of two more boys in the family but I know George is proud now the men always are when it is a boy. I always wanted a girl I think they are just as nice don’t you? Wish I could have had my two boys to raise together. Hope you all can keep yours they are so much company one for the other. But I am thankfull for my one boy. He will be twelve next month. He is doing nicely in school now. 

If it is not to much trouble when you write next time give me the childrens ages for I want to set down all of the cousins children and see how big a tree we will be in fifty years from now. Davie was fourty the 15th of this month so that makes the fourth to enter the four tens if Orpha & Nellie had lived. 1 I am the oldest. 2 Orpha next then 3 Nellie & 4 Davie. 5 (Ada dead). 6 Mary Dyar. 7 Matie Smith. 8 (Aggie Smith dead). Then 10 George 9 Myrtle Crouch. 11 Amy. 12 Willie C. 13 Lutie S. (dead). 14 Louie. Bert Vaux 15 (Ralph Crouch dead), 16 Bert Vaux. 17 Guy Vaux dead 19 Callie. I think 18 Gean Woodward was older than Callie but I do not know for shure. You know from there down Myrtle is older than George for I can remember her saying Monkey for Munger when he was a baby. You know from there down this younger generation of cousins.

20 Ada Woodward. 21 Verdie Dyar. 22 Roy Dyar. 24 Nellie Woodward. 23 Devier Carringer. 26. Chester Dyar. 27 Lyle Carringer. 25 Eva Smith. 28 Vern Dyar. 29 Ellen Doctor. 30 Lezzie Doctor. 31 Grace Doctor. 32 Mable Smith. 33 34 Will Cruchs 2 girls. 35 36 37 Amy 2 boys 1 girl. 38 39 40 Geo 2 girls 1 boy. 41 Orpha 1 girl. 18 Grand chil, 23 G Grand chil.

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I finally figured out who the "parents" of this family are - it's Samuel and Mary Ann (Underhill) Vaux.  Note the 18 grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren comment.  The names of the children given on the list above are all children of the children of Samuel and Mary Ann (Underhill) Vaux. 

I think that this letter was sent to Della's aunt, Celia Ann (Vaux) (Redfield) Munger in Belleville, Kansas because she refers to George's having just had a son - George is certainly George Francis Munger of Belleville, who had a son, Frank E. Munger on 30 May 1903, and had two daughters before that.   The second boy that Della refers to is probably Amy (Munger) Doctor's son, Peter Doctor, who was born in August 1903 in Belleville.

I really do think that Della would be ecstatic that someone in the family found her collection and is using it to create a family tree.  I also think that she would be amazed at what I've found in her ancestry, and in her husband's ancestry also.  

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Review: "Tracing Your Female Ancestors" Special Magazine

While at the National Genealogical Society 2013 Conference in Las Vegas, I visited the Moorshead Publishing (Internet Genealogy, Family Chronicle and History Magazine) exhibit.  Ed and Rick are great genealogy friends, and gifted me with a copy of one of their excellent special magazines - "Tracing Your Female Ancestors," written by Gena Philibert Ortega.

The publicity for this magazine says:

"Internet Genealogy and Family Chronicle are pleased to present Tracing Your Female Ancestors, a new, 68-page special issue compiled by Gena Philibert-Ortega, a regular contributor Family Chronicle and Internet Genealogy, and the author of From the Family Kitchen: Discover Your Food Heritage and Preserve Favorite Recipes. Gena provides readers with a comprehensive collection of tips and strategies for locating female ancestors in a variety of different sources — both common and not-so-common."

The Table of Contents for this 68 page special magazine is:

*  page 6 - Introduction
*  page 10 - Finding Your Pre-1850 Female Ancestors
*  page 13 - Online Sources
*  page 20 - Women's Clubs
*  page 22 - Tracing Your African-American Female Ancestors

*  page 27 - Jane S. Chatham Case Study
*  page 31 - Women and Divorce 
*  page 37 - Women's Work
*  page 40 - Secret Lives of Women
*  page 45 - Manuscript Collections 

*  page 49 - University Library Sources
*  page 52 - Women in Photos
*  page 54 - Women and the Vote
*  page 57 - Women in the Civil War
*  page 62 - Grandma Was an Alien?
*  page 65 - Writing Their Story

Each of these articles discusses the topic in general and specific terms, and often provide lists of  online or repository records with very useful information.  

The "Tracing Your Female Ancestors" special magazine can be ordered here for $9.95 (US) plus $4.50 shipping (PDF download is $8.50).  Other magazines and books can be ordered through their Book Store.

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Copyright (c) 2013, Randall J. Seaver

Disclosure:  I was provided a copy of this special magazine and was asked to review it.  The gift does not affect my objective evaluation of this magazine.

Review: Genealogy At a Glance: Finding Female Ancestors

The Genealogical Publishing Company in Baltimore has published another in its series of "Genealogy at a Glance" laminated research guides - this time for Finding Female Ancestors, by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack.

This "Genealogy at a Glance" booklet has four laminated pages on one 11" x 17" paper (folded). It is designed to give the user the basic elements of genealogy research in the allotted space. They provide an overview of the facts a researcher needs to know in order to begin and proceed successfully with research in the subject.

The  Finding Female Ancestors booklet has these subjects:

*  Contents

*  Quick Facts and Important Dates
*  The Challenge of Researching Your Female Ancestors
*  Determining Maiden Names and Parents
*  Other Sources Created About Women
*  Divorce Petitions

*  Insanity Records
*  Naturalizations
*  Widows' Pensions
*  Dower Releases
*  Sources Created by Women
*  Glossary
*  Online Sources

This booklet is designed primarily for the person who is not an expert, or has little experience, on finding female ancestors.  It provides guidance and excellent ideas to help researchers to find their elusive female ancestors. Reference books, online databases and websites for some of the topics are cited in the text.

For someone like me that teaches and talks about genealogy a bit, it is invaluable because I can pull it out and provide some guidance to my student or colleague interested in the subject.

The beauty of these "Genealogy at a Glance" booklets is that they are very light and portable in a briefcase or laptop case. They are fixtures in my research case.

This four-page laminated booklet costs $8.95,  plus postage and handling (4th Class Mail $4.50; FedEx Ground Service in the USA, $6.00). You can order it through the Genealogical Store, or use the link for the  Finding Female Ancestors booklet and click on the "Add to Cart" link.  I recommend buying these at seminars and conferences where they are offered in order to avoid the shipping costs.

I have reviewed several similar works in:

*  Book Review: Genealogy at a Glance: "How-To" Series (French-Canadian, Scottish and Irish),
*  Book Review: Genealogy at a Glance: German Genealogy Research
*  Review: Genealogy at a Glance: English Genealogy Research 
*  Review - Genealogy at a Glance: French Genealogy Research, 
*  Review: Genealogy at a Glance: Immigration Research
*  Review: Genealogy at a Glance - American Cemetery Research, 
*  Book Review: Genealogy at a Glance - U.S. Federal Census Records, 
*  Book Review: Genealogy at a Glance - Pennsylvania Genealogy Research.

*  Book Review:  Genealogy at a Glance - Family History Library Research

The URL for this post is:   http://www.geneamusings.com/2013/04/review-genealogy-at-glance-finding.html

Copyright (c) Randall J. Seaver, 2013.

Disclosure: Genealogical.com contacted me recently and asked me to provide a review of this booklet. They mailed me a review copy for my personal use as remuneration for this review.