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• A Few Forgotten Women

  Telling the stories of marginalised women of the past.

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  • Feisty Women

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• Ancestry.com - Tips for Finding the Stories of the Women in Your Family Tree ^FREE

  Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Biographies of Historical Women

• Female Ancestors - Find Female Ancestors

  Biographies, organization rosters, and other resources to help find female ancestors.

• Female Ancestors: Finding Women in Local History and Genealogy

  This guide provides resources and strategies for discovering the women in local history and family trees. Library of Congress print and digital collections, as well as state, county, and community archives can help to find elusive female ancestors.

• Finding Female Ancestors

  Resources and guides that will help you better plan your search for the women in your lines.

• Finding the Elusive Women

  Gives step-by-step research strategies for tracing your female ancestors.
  [The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

• First Name Basis

  To aid you in researching when all you know is the first name of a person. Focuses on unusual first names and women's first names when maiden names are unknown.

• Genealogy.com - Finding Female Ancestors and Maiden Names

  By Donna Przecha.

• Jewish Women's Archive

  The mission of the Jewish Women's Archive is to uncover, chronicle and transmit the rich legacy of Jewish women and their contributions to our families and communities, to our people and our world.

• Library of Congress - Searching for Female Ancestors: A Selected Bibliography $

• Notable Women Ancestors

  Collection of biographies submitted primarily by genealogists, often including genealogy information and photos; all with e-mail contacts of the submitter. Includes many of the most researched women: Anne Hutchinson, Sacajawea, Rebecca Nurse, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Dyer, Deborah Sampson, Nancy Hart, and more.

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• Prologue: Women & Naturalization Records

  Any woman who is now or may hereafter be married . . . Women and Naturalization, ca. 1802-1940, By Marian L. Smith. Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration Summer 1998, vol. 30, no. 2. Examines why women are not represented in early naturalization records.

• RootsTech - Finding Your Elusive Female Ancestors

  By Julie Stoddard.

• She Might Not Be a Widow

  From the Reclaiming Kin blog.

• ThoughtCo - Top 10 Sources for Locating Maiden Names

• Who Does She Think She Is? | Family history and feminism

  A blog by a woman who is approaching her family history research from a broadly feminist point of view.

• Women's History Network