Genealogy Resources
Women and Genealogy
- Burgess, Thomas Knight. "A Maiden Name for Mercy: Indirect
Evidence of the Wife of Benjamin Burgess of Dartmouth,
Massachusetts." NGS Quarterly 94 (June 2007).
- Carmack, Sharon DeBartolo. A Genealogist's Guide to
Discovering Your Female Ancestors. Cincinnati: Betterway
Books, 1998.
- Costello, Margaret E. "A Child by Any Other Name ...."
New England Historical and Genealogical Register 167
(January 1993).
- Degler, Carl N. At Odds: Women and the Family in America
from the Revolution to the Present. New York: oxford
University Press, 1980.
- Elliott, Wendy Bebout. "Finding Wives' and Daughters'
Names." NGS NewsMagazine 34, 1 (January-March 2008):
17-21.
- Fisher, David Hackett. "Forenames and the Family in New
England: An Exercise in Historical Onomastics." Generations
and Change: Genealogical Perspectives in Social History.
Editors, Robert M. Taylor Jr. and Ralph J. Crandall. Acon,
Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1986.
- Grossberg, Michael. Governing the Hearth, Law and Family
in Nineteenth-Century America. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University
of North Carolina Press, 1985.
- Hawks, Joanne V., compiler. Mississippi's Historical
Heritage: A Guide to Women's Sources in Mississippi
Repositories. Jackson, Mississippi: Society of Mississippi
Archivists, 1993.
- Hiatt, Marty. "Stother & Wife v. Clopton's Heirs."
Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 43 (August 2005)
- Hinds, Harold E. Jr. "Recapturing Women's Lives." NGS
Magazine 35, 2 (April-June 2009): 66-67.
- Jensen, Joan M. Calling This Place Home: Women on the
Wisconsin Frontier, 1850-1925. Minnesota Historical Society
Press, 2006.
- Lennon, Rachal Mills. "The Wives of Jonathan Turner:
Identification of Women in Pre-Twentieth-Century South
Carolina." NGS Quarterly 92 (December 2004).
- Lenzen, Connie. "Proving a Maternal Line: The Case of
Frances B. Whitney," NGS Quarterly 82 (March 1994).
- Mills, Elizabeth Shown. "The Search of Margaret Ball:
Building Steps over a Brick-wall Research Problem." NGS
Quarterly 77 (March 1989).
- Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty's Daughters: the Revolutionary
Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. New York:
HarperCollins, 1980.
- Riley, Glenda. Divorce: An American Tradition. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
- Salmon, Marylynn. Women and the Law of Property in Early
America. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina
Press, 1986.
- Schaefer, Christina Kassabian. The Hidden Half of the
Family: A Sourcebook for Women's Genealogy. Baltimore:
Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999.
- Schwander, Daisy. "Finding Origins for Immigrant Females:
Chicago's Bertha Roeseke and Her Unremembered Mother." NGS
Quarterly 81 (December 1993).
- Sholes-Higgins, Marjorie. "Eight Generations of a
Matriarchal Line: From Slave to Psychologist." FGS Forum
17 (Fall 2005).