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. She is affectionately known as The Archive Lady . She lect...
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Comments (115)
A very interesting webinar. Melisa is such a great presenter because she makes the ordinary come alive! The advice to look at all the information we already have as a starting point is so sensible. Looking for female ancestors may actually start with going over information about a male ancestor. Thanks again for great information and advice.
Melissa Baker gave a great presentation on finding our ladies - gave me some really great ideas on what to include in my research notes! Very grateful ;-)
So many suggestions & ideas. I have boxes of letters, etc.
I've always used the newspapers and have gotten great information. It's the only way I would have known my 2nd great grandfather filed for bankruptcy in England in 1851. He's a make, but I wouldn't have known about it otherwise. Always have found good information on the females in my family.
This was interesting to watch. I loved all the stories of real people. Melissa gave many places to try and find sources for our female ancestors. I love how she encouraged us to write our stories as well as our ancestors stories.
Melissa generated great memories of things that I could/should be documenting about my relatives - particularly my Mom, but also my grandmothers who did have interesting hobbies.
All good information, and well-presented. I felt it really needed to include more on how to find and engage with archives, though, and I would have settled for a little less of the other content to learn more about that.
Melissa gave an amazing presentation. I always enjoy her talks and it's a great reminder to use the archives! It also reminded me that I need to do more research on my 3rd great aunt, Arabella Sargent. It was just the encouragement I needed. Thanks Melissa and thanks Geoff for the DNA Kit! What a great surprise!