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"Applying Lessons Learned" When Researching Female Ancestors

Image by rawpixel.com   Women in our family trees frequently get short shrift, don't they? With maiden names often undiscovered, they sometime languish, faded and unknown, next to their better-documented husbands on our family trees. Records don't often exist for them, distant descendants might not know their names, or they died without progeny to remember and carry their names forward. What if there was a resource that could help you discover more about those silent women to bring them out of the shadows? Such a resources exists in Telling Her Story: A Guide to Writing About Women of the Past by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack (Salt Lake City: Scattered Leaves Press, 2024). I used what I learned from this book to craft a series of blog posts on my great-great-great grandmother Mary Jane Sheridan. And I wrote about that process in the article: "Applying Lessons Learned," for the September 2025 issue of  Stirpes , the Journal of the Texas State Genealogical Society. Read it...
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GENEALOGY CHALLENGE 2021 - FAMILY PHOTO

James, Anne and Jim Casey, Camping Trip. Photo by N. Gilbride Casey

GENEALOGY CHALLENGE 2021

Family Photo - January 3rd entry of a 31-day challenge to post a document, photo or artifact on social media every day in January.
 
by Nancy Gilbride Casey
 
Though it is not a very old photo, this one evokes fond memories of camping trips we made with Anne (here about 12), and James (about 6 years). We had a travel trailer when they were younger, and took lots of weekend trips, and wonderful several-week summer trips to the Grand Canyon, New Mexico, and one terrific trip from Texas to Ohio and back. 
 
Some of the best times while camping were the four of us all crowding onto our full-size bed in the evening to watch whatever TV station we could manage to get reception for, in whichever tucked-away town we were staying near. This looks like one of our winter trips, and it was probably raining and cold too. What better to do then snuggle up together, with neither chores nor obligations nagging, with your favorite people in the whole world? It was lovely.
 
COMING TOMORROW - Photo of family heirloom
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