How do you find records for females who lived before the last century? Here are a few of the strategies I have successfully employed to find my female ancestors.
Newspapers Blog Posts
Birthday
I take a look at my hometown paper on my birthday. It’s fun to discover the headlines my parents read in the paper the day I was born. I’ve picked out a few items to highlight from The Indianapolis Star for Thursday, October 29, 1959.
Wedding
I read about the use of wedding announcements as a source of genealogy information. This was an intriguing idea, so I sought out wedding announcements for my family. There were not many, but I will share a few I did find.
Close to Home
My grandparents. Earl and Pearl, met at church, close to home, in 1914,
In The Paper
52 Ancestors, in 52 Weeks – Week 13: In The Paper
It’s fun to find articles in the paper mentioning one of my relatives. Mostly they are birth, marriage, divorce and death events. But, it’s the oddball articles in the papers I like the most.