Gena Philibert-Ortega shows how newspaper articles about the charity organizations your female ancestor belonged to help your family history research... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega provides search tips to find your often-elusive female ancestors in old newspapers... (Read More)
Introduction: Gena Philibert-Ortega is a genealogist and author of the book “From the Family Kitchen.” In this blog post, Gena shows how “Help Wanted-Female” ads in historical newspapers can help you learn more about the employment opportunities that were available to your women ancestors—and learn about the places and eras they lived in. What... (Read More)
Introduction: Gena Philibert-Ortega is a genealogist and author of the book “From the Family Kitchen.” In this guest blog post, to help celebrate Mother’s Day this weekend, Gena provides genealogy search tips to find information about your female ancestors. There’s no doubt that tracing female ancestors can be difficult and sometimes near impossible. Unlike... (Read More)
Introduction: Gena Philibert-Ortega is a genealogist and author of the book “From the Family Kitchen.” In this guest blog post, Gena reflects on some of her favorite genealogy topics that she’s researched for the GenealogyBank Blog. One great thing about working as a writer is that you have the opportunity to research and learn... (Read More)
In this article, to celebrate Women’s History Month, Mary Harrell-Sesniak provides practical tips to help you search for your female ancestors... (Read More)
In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak provides a quiz to test your knowledge of terms used in old newspapers for our female ancestors’ occupations... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega celebrates Women’s History Month by providing search tips to help you find your female ancestors in old newspapers... (Read More)
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