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1920 Women's Voter Register - Datasets - Analyze Boston

Boston, Massachusetts. The Women's Voter Register Dataset is created from Election Department registers used to register women voters in 1920 after the passage of the 19th Amendment. The dataset contains information about newly registered women voters including name, address, place of birth, occupation, place of work, naturalization information, and closest male relative. This dataset is in progress and is updated periodically as additional voter registers are transcribed.

Early Female Physicians in Alabama - Hidden Legacies: II. Early Female Physicians in Alabama

Documenting female doctors in Alabama before World War II. A work in progress.

Early Illinois Women & Other Unsung Heroes

Female Convicts Research Centre

Promotes interest in the female convicts of Van Diemen

Filles à Marier Certification - AFGS

Are you a Filles à Marier Descendant? The Filles à Marier came to Quebec before the Filles du Roi. Between 1634 and September 1663, 262 Filles à Marier or marriageable girls” emigrated to New France representing one quarter of all the single girls arriving in New France through 1673. As opposed to the Filles du Roi who emigrated between 1663 and 1673, the Filles à Marier came alone or in small groups. They were not recruited by the state and did not receive a dowry from the King. They were promised nothing but the possibility of a better life. The Filles à Marier chose to emigrate under perilous conditions to a wilderness colony because the advantages offered by the colony were great enough to make them forget the dangers of the crossing and rude character of colonial life.

From History to Her Story: Yorkshire Womens Lives Online, 1100 to the present

heroines.ca - A Guide to Women in Canadian History

An educational site about women in Canadian history, including biographies, historical images, news, This Month in Herstory, info about historical sites and statues, etc. The site was developed by Canadian historian Merna Forster.

Illinois Women Artists Project

Database of women artists who worked throughout Illinois between 1840 and 1940.

Jewish Foundation for Education of Women Records, 1880-1988

From the New York Public Library's Manuscripts and Archives Division. The Jewish Foundation for Education of Women was founded in New York City in 1880 as the Louis Down Town Sabbath School for the purpose of helping under-privileged children of Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side. From 1895 to 1932 it was known as the Hebrew Technical School for Girls and offered courses in commercial and industrial arts to young women. The records include correspondence, minutes, annual reports, case files, registers of scholarship recipients, and miscellaneous administrative records.

Jewish Women's Archive

Memorial to the pioneer women of the Western Reserve

Digitized copy of the book edited by Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham (Wickham, 1896).

My Many Mothers

These biographical sketches are of Acadian and Cajun ancestors. The women featured in this blog are from Acadia in the 1600s through the deportation to the North American Colonies and France to the immigration to and and settlement in Louisiana in the 1700s and 1800s.

Pioneer Nurses of West Virginia

A website to honor the Pioneer Nurses of W.Va. from Civil War through 1935, as well as the W. Va. nurses who served in wars, through the Korean War.

Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project

Includes transcribed and scanned court records, maps, and more.

The Female Factory Online

Online database for the historic Parramatta Female Factory (c.1802-1848)

The Jewish Women's Archive

The mission of the Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) is to uncover, chronicle, and transmit the rich history of American Jewish women. Includes a Virtual Archive - a searchable database on more than 1,600 Jewish women whose materials are held by repositories throughout the U.S.

Unpacking on the Prairie: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest

Documents the lives of immigrant and pioneer women of Jewish descent in the upper Midwest.

Women in the Gold Rush

Women's History - Australian Women's History

Tracing your Australian women ancestors.

Working Out Her Destiny: Women's History in Virginia, 1600-2004

An exhibition at the Library of Virginia that takes a fresh look at the history of Virginia's women and the history of Virginia in the light of twenty years of innovative scholarship since the 1984-1985 Virginia Women's Cultural History Project presented the first ever exhibition and book on Virginia women's history, "'A Share of Honour,' Virginia Women 1600-1945."