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Tracing Women Using Home and Family Sources - International Institute: Difference between revisions
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Not all women kept diaries. However, if your ancestor kept a diary or journal, this a great source for information. If you aren’t sure whether or not your ancestor kept one, perhaps it was not in traditional labeled journal or diary book. Perhaps they recorded their thoughts in a small notepad, book or address book. If you have living relatives, ask them if they or anyone in the family held onto letters, diaries or journals and who in the family has them or inherited them. | Not all women kept diaries. However, if your ancestor kept a diary or journal, this a great source for information. If you aren’t sure whether or not your ancestor kept one, perhaps it was not in traditional labeled journal or diary book. Perhaps they recorded their thoughts in a small notepad, book or address book. If you have living relatives, ask them if they or anyone in the family held onto letters, diaries or journals and who in the family has them or inherited them. | ||
If not, then you can always consult published diaries of your ancestors’ contemporaries to gain insight into their lives. Consult Laura Arksey’s ''American Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of Published American Diaries and Journals'' (check your local library or the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC). [http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/oclcsearch.html NUCMC] ) a cooperative cataloging program operated by the | If not, then you can always consult published diaries of your ancestors’ contemporaries to gain insight into their lives. Consult Laura Arksey’s ''American Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of Published American Diaries and Journals'' (check your local library or the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC). [http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/oclcsearch.html NUCMC]) a cooperative cataloging program operated by the U.S. Library of Congress. The catalogs from 1986/87 to the present are searchable online. Those from 1959-1985 are available in print form only. | ||
Check the collections of your local archives and libraries for women’s diaries. If your female ancestors were from Canada, consult ''Diaries in English by Women in Canada, 1753-1995: An Annotated Bibliography,'' by Kathryn Carter (Ottawa: Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, 1997). Sometimes women’s diaries have been made available through an online exhibit, such as the Archives of Ontario’s''A Lifetime - Day by Day:[http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/diaries/index.aspx Five Women and their Diaries]'' are available. | Check the collections of your local archives and libraries for women’s diaries. If your female ancestors were from Canada, consult ''Diaries in English by Women in Canada, 1753-1995: An Annotated Bibliography,'' by Kathryn Carter (Ottawa: Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, 1997). Sometimes women’s diaries have been made available through an online exhibit, such as the Archives of Ontario’s''A Lifetime - Day by Day:[http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/diaries/index.aspx Five Women and their Diaries]'' are available. | ||
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If your female ancestor did not leave a written legacy of her own, often a second-hand account is better than none at all. | If your female ancestor did not leave a written legacy of her own, often a second-hand account is better than none at all. | ||
In some instances photographs often accompanied significant life events: baptisms, marriages, funerals. Photographs, in particular, often provide valuable clues about our ancestors. No matter how many facts we acquire, or stories we record, nothing compares to having an image of someone who has gone before, and if you are lucky enough to possess a photograph of one or more of your ancestors consider it a true treasure. A photograph often provides a wonderful reflection of the time period during which your ancestor lived. | In some instances photographs often accompanied significant life events: baptisms, marriages, funerals. Photographs, in particular, often provide valuable clues about our ancestors. No matter how many facts we acquire, or stories we record, nothing compares to having an image of someone who has gone before, and if you are lucky enough to possess a photograph of one or more of your ancestors consider it a true treasure. A photograph often provides a wonderful reflection of the time period during which your ancestor lived. | ||
=== Clothing/Heirlooms/Jewelry/Keepsakes === | === Clothing/Heirlooms/Jewelry/Keepsakes === | ||