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Following the Female Footprints
August 2024 |
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Florida Genealogical Society
Saturday, August 3, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Seminole Heights Library
Community Room
Do you know how to interpret your findings on an ancestor in light of history? Are you looking at what was happening in the area, the country, and the world for the time period being researched? We will examine several situations you should be aware of that will aid you in telling their story.
Meeting is a hybrid meeting. Michael L. Strauss will be presenting via webinar in the at the Seminole Heights Branch Library . Alternately, you can attend via Zoom webinar.
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Genealogy: Finding Female Ancestors
Friday, August 9, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Robert W. Saunders, Sr.
Foundation Room
The old legal practice of coverture resulted in very little recorded history for females for hundreds of years, and it survived as a practice until the late 19th century. So, what do you do if you’re researching a female ancestor pre-1900? Well, you have to get creative. Come learn how to track your female ancestors in this delightful genealogy course.
Register here.
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Genealogy for Kids
Tuesday, August 13, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
SouthShore
John Crawford Art Education Studio
Create your own family tree with a little help.
Recommended for ages 8 to 12. Registration required.
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Read Florida Book Club: The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton
Thursday, August 29, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
John F. Germany Library
Cecil P. Beach Conference Room
Join us for our Read Florida book club to discuss The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton. Copies of the book are available at the library, or in our library catalog in e-audiobook format.
Recommended for adults. Registration is not required.
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Finding the Women in Our History
Available on demand,
Delve into the past with the women from our local history and family trees. Understand the challenges involved in uncovering their stories. Celebrate the details big and small that the records reveal about their lives, families, and communities.
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Women at War
Tuesday, August 6, 12:30 PM
Zoom
Led by the Military Research Special Interest Group, this program is about women who have contributed a lot in every conflict.
Register here.
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A Dictionary of Female Occupations
by Margaret Ward
This is a carefully researched A-Z of women's employment, covering over 100 years of change. The entries themselves are based on an encyclopaedic approach, each full of interest and information, as they chart the steadily evolving status of women and the career opportunities open to them.
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Remember the Ladies
by Judith A. McDowell
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in the time of one of your ancestors? Is there knowledge they can tell you today, and is there a way to "bring them to life" through stories. As president of Piper Legacy Press (www.piperlegacy.com), Judith McDowell loves helping record family stories and histories. She shows you with real examples how she learned the stories of her female ancestors and how you can too. If you are longing for a greater connection to your past, this book will help you find it!
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Tracing Your Female Ancestors : A Guide for Family Historians
by Adéle Emm
Chapters cover the quintessential experiences of birth, marriage and death, a woman's working and daily life both middle and working class, through to crime and punishment, the acquisition of an education and the fight for equality. Each chapter gives advice on where further resources, archives, wills, newspapers and websites can be found, with plentiful common sense advice on how to use them.
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Tracing Your Service Women Ancestors : A Guide for Family Historians
by Mary Ingham
Whether you are interested in the career of an individual service woman or just want to know more about the part played by service women in a particular war or campaign, this is the book for you. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of service women, Mary Ingham explains which records survive, where they can be found and how they can help in your research. She also vividly describes the role of women with the armed services from the Crimean War of the 1850s to the aftermath of the First World War and offers an insight into what the records can tell you about the career of an ancestor who served at home or abroad. From the army schoolmistresses to the Women's Land Army, her account outlines the history of each service, describes uniforms and gives examples of daily life and likely experiences. This is the book you need if you want to follow up those clues in your family's history – stories heard from older relatives, pictures in family photograph albums, handed-down uniforms, badges or medals that seem to indicate that one of your women ancestors served in wartime.
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Female Index to "Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England" by James Savage
by Patty Barthell Myers
It is generally agreed that James Savage's "Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England" is one of the greatest works ever published on New England genealogy. This female index, published almost 150 years after Savage's Dictionary first came out, lists all the females alphabetically by maiden name and married names (over 50,000 names altogether), and now they are as easy to locate as the males.
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Finding Female Ancestors
by Sharon Debartolo Carmack
In its now familiar format, this Genealogy at a Glance guide is designed to cover a large amount of ground in just a few keystrokes, hitting all the right notes in as short a period of time as possible. Thus, in a four-page laminated folder, it focuses on the special aspects of female research and provides a reading list and a list of online sources to carry you further in your research. If you want to explore this hidden subject quickly and efficiently, you'll find this guide to be indispensable.
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A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Female Ancestors
by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
This first-ever guide reveals special strategies for overcoming the unique challenges of tracing female genealogy. Readers will be able to uncover historical facts, personal accounts and recorded events to form an intriguing narrative biography of the women in their ancestries.
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The Hidden Half of the Family: A Sourcebook for Women's Genealogy
by Christina K. Schaefer
Whether listed under their maiden names, married names, patronymic/matronymic surnames or some other permutation, or hidden under such terms as "Mrs.," "Mistress," "goodwife," "wife of," or even "daughter of," it is clear that women are hard to find. But while women may never be as easy to locate as their male counterparts, Christina Schaefer here pioneers an approach to the problem that just might set genealogy on its head! And her solution is simplicity itself: Look closely at those areas where the female ancestor interacts with the government and the legal system, she advises, where law, precedent, and even custom mandate the unequivocal identification of all parties, male and female.
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Women and the Law of Property in Early America
by Marylynn Salmon
In this comprehensive study of women's property rights in early America, Marylynn Salmon discusses the effect of formal rules of law on women's lives. By focusing on such areas such as conveyancing, contracts, divorce, separate estates, and widows' provisions, the author presents a full picture of women's legal rights from 1750 to 1830. Women did not all fare equally under the law. In this illuminating survey of the jurisdictions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina, Salmon shows regional variations in the law that affected women's autonomous control over property.
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Women's Lives : Researching Women's Social History, 1800-1939
by Jennifer Newby
Jennifer Newby's guide to women's social history between 1800 and 1939 includes essential starting points for research. A useful handbook for family historians, as well as an engaging read for social history lovers, each chapter focuses on a different group, with suggestions for further reading and a helpful timeline.
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Databases and Online Resources |
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Ancestry Library EditionSearch billions of records in census data, vital records, military records, directories, and photos to find your family's history. Powered by Ancestry.com.In-Library Use Only |
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Learn about America's communities through our data profiles. They cover 100,000+ different geographies: states, counties, places, tribal areas, zip codes, and congressional districts.
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Genealogy information including family trees, photos, and altogether more than 6 billion exclusive records from all over the world. |
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Contact the Florida History & Genealogy Library
900 N. Ashley Dr. Tampa, FL 33602 Phone: 813-273-3652 Email: LIB-FHGL@hillsboroughcounty.org |
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