{"id":7745,"date":"2021-05-09T19:52:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T19:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/?p=7745"},"modified":"2021-05-09T19:52:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T19:52:20","slug":"finding-the-female-ancestors-in-your-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/finding-the-female-ancestors-in-your-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the Female Ancestors in Your Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we pause and give thanks to mothers everywhere on this Mothers&#8217; Day, we should note the special place that<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7768\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000; padding: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/f-us-vintage-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/f-us-vintage-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/f-us-vintage-1024x1008.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/f-us-vintage-768x756.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/f-us-vintage.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> they have in our family histories and pedigrees. As genealogists, sometimes we get distracted by looking only for male ancestral lines, to see how far back we can extend a link. There is much more to family history than that, and finding complete families wherever possible should certainly be the priority.<\/p>\n<p>That brings us to finding female ancestors on our lines, which can sometimes be challenging to do. In the United States page of The Family History Guide, Goal B4\u00a0 has some great resources to help, whether you are researching in the U.S. or in other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at some of the highlights in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/project-9-united-statesb4.html#d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Choice D<\/a>: of Goal B4. You can click a link below to explore an article or watch a video about the topic, or do the same on The Family History Guide website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn strategies for finding females in your family tree.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"star notranslate\">\u2606<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancestryacademy.com\/finding-the-females-in-your-family-tree\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/img\/vid.png\" width=\"20\" \/>\u00a0<span class=\"re\">AAC\u2014Finding the Females in Your Family Tree\u2014Video series (acct. req.)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"star notranslate\">\u2606<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancestryacademy.com\/videos\/how-to-find-a-maiden-name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/img\/vid.png\" width=\"20\" \/>\u00a0<span class=\"re\">AAC\u2014How to Find a Maiden Name\u20142:03 (acct. req.)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn how to find female ancestors by married and maiden names.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"star notranslate\">\u2606<\/span><a class=\"lk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogy.com\/articles\/research\/00000516.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/img\/doc.png\" width=\"20\" \/>\u00a0<span class=\"re\">GC\u2014Maiden Name<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"star notranslate\">\u2606<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amyjohnsoncrow.com\/3-practical-strategies-finding-female-ancestors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/img\/doc.png\" width=\"20\" \/>\u00a0<span class=\"re\">AJC\u20143 Practical Strategies for Finding Female Ancestors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here are some additional strategies for finding maiden names in research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"star notranslate\">\u2606<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/top-sources-for-locating-maiden-names-1422659\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/img\/doc.png\" width=\"20\" \/>\u00a0<span class=\"re\">TH\u2014Top 10 Sources for Locating Maiden Names<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watch this video for tips on finding maiden names.<span class=\"star notranslate\">\u2606<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q0-8FY9mkIQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/img\/vid.png\" width=\"20\" \/>\u00a0<span class=\"re\">AC\u2014Finding Women&#8217;s Maiden Names\u201424:08<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q0-8FY9mkIQ?rel=0\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read the article or watch the video to learn about using maiden names to further your research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"star notranslate\">\u2606<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/genealogy.about.com\/od\/surnames\/tp\/maiden_names.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/img\/doc.png\" width=\"20\" \/>\u00a0<span class=\"re\">TH\u2014Top Places to Find Maiden Names<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"star notranslate\">\u2606<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Uv6BQ1vsRng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/img\/vid.png\" width=\"20\" \/>\u00a0<span class=\"re\">AC: Finding the Maiden Names of Women in Your Family Tree\u201418:01<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we pause and give thanks to mothers everywhere on this Mothers&#8217; Day, we should note the special place that they have in our family histories and pedigrees. As genealogists, sometimes we get distracted by looking only for male ancestral lines, to see how far back we can extend a link. There is much more to family history than that,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[356],"tags":[467],"class_list":["post-7745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-female-ancestors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7745"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7776,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745\/revisions\/7776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}