Finding Females: Wives, Mothers, Daughters, Sisters & Paramours
Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
Content
Welcome
1m 57s
Introduction
3m 57s
Study Case Studies
1m 7s
Thorough Research
15m 37s
Follow Her Males
2m 55s
Analyze the Proved Data
4m 36s
Study His Associates
18m 19s
Special Tips
12m 10s
Dead and Buried
1m 36s
Track Descendants
2m 27s
Announcements / prizes
3m 33s
Questions / answers
9m 1s
About this webinar
One of the toughest challenges faced by genealogists is the difficulty of identifying and tracking females. Wives and mothers traditionally have been “supporting characters” to the roles played by their husbands and sons—bearing no known name other than that of the males they married or bore. Historically, social mores and law codes made them second-class citizens, without a legal identity of their own and few rights or opportunities to create the range of records that genealogists customarily use to trace males. This session presents an array of resources—and, more importantly, techniques and strategies backed by case studies—we can use to establish the identities of elusive females.
About the speaker
Across a long career, Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG, FUGA, FNGS, has been an innovator of research methods and strategies. Published widely by academic and popular presses, she edited a nationa...
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Comments (202)
A comprehensive, cogently argued presentation in support of "thinking outside the square" and not being misled by the easy answer, nor by accepting what is easily discovered and not exhaustively "proving" that the clues discovered are in fact correct. Elizabeth's examples are right on target. Elizabeth provided confidence to me that my general research techniques are not as obsessive as I sometimes feared. I am far more confident now, that thoroughly tracking the lives of associates and similar links can be essential to deliver necessary assurance of the validity of the genealogical links. Thank you, Elizabeth, for encouraging researchers to do the job properly, rather than not simply accept that "close enough is good enough", particularly when trying to trace the "hidden" females in our family history.
Very Good. I always learn a lot from her.
THIS HAS GOT TO BE HER BEST TO DATE!!
Really good.
My only negative thing to say about Elizabeth's presentarions is that she gives so much information that I sometimes miss one thing while trying to write down one of the points she has made.
Elizabeth Shown Mills is always brilliant. We are so lucky she was convinced to do these webinars. Thank you to both Elizabeth and to Geoff for convincing.
I realized how lazy I have been in accepting "facts" without research.
FANTastic!! Very helpful and inspirational presentation. I always learn so much from ESM's presentations!
I learned a lot!!