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Searching for Sarah: Strategies for Researching Female Ancestors

septiembre 23, 2021 by Geneil - Editor at Legacy Tree Genealogists 8 Comments

female ancestors

Legacy Tree Genealogists' Geneil Breeze specializes in finding unknown ancestors. In this article, we discover some tips for identifying women in historical records by learning how cultural differences worldwide affect names and naming practices.  There she was, listed as head of household on the 1850 Census for Greene County, Missouri: Sarah Singletary, age 49, my third-great-grandmother. She lived at a time when women typically were not heads of households. As a presumed single woman in the … [Read more...]

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