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Laying Out the Clues in Funeral Home Records Saturday, March 11, 11:00 amJohn F. Germany Public Library - AuditoriumNationally known speaker, author and consultant George G. Morgan will discuss the vast amount of genealogical information to be found in funeral home and mortuary records. This program is sponsored by the Florida Genealogical Society in partnership with the Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library.
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Baseball in Tampa: A Storied History Saturday, March 18, 10:30 amJohn F. Germany Public Library - The Hive: Flex Space (3 West)With the beginning of spring comes baseball! Join the Florida History and Genealogy Library as we explore the history of baseball in Tampa Bay. The Tampa Bay area has long been known for Spring Training and now for its latest role as the home of the Rays! Panel speakers include Dick Crippen (Tampa Bay Rays Senior Advisor), Pop Cuesta (former Jefferson High School Baseball Coach), and Elizabeth C. McCoy (Curator of the Tampa Baseball Museum at the Al Lopez House). For Adults. Funded by the Friends of the John F. Germany Public Library.
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Finding Female Ancestors Saturday, March 25, 10:30 am Florida History & Genealogy Library (John F. Germany Public Library) - 2 WestFinding records for female ancestors can be challenging, but it is far from impossible. Learn about the variety of documents that can be used to glean information about your female line and help you add generations to your family tree.
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Burgert Brothers Walking Tour of Tampa Saturday, March 25, 10:30 am Event LocationBryan Weinstein, photographer and creator of the website Tampa Changing, will provide a 60-90 minute guided tour of 12 of downtown Tampa's most historically significant locations photographed by Al and Jean Burgert. Example sites include the University of Tampa, Tampa Theatre, and the Kress Building. Please register online or by calling 813-273-3652. Limit 25. Funded by the Friends of the John F. Germany Public Library.
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WOMEN'S HISTORY RESOURCES
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Women and the Law of Property in Early America by Marylynn SalmonIn this comprehensive study of women's property rights in early America, Marylynn Salmon discusses the effect of formal rules of law on women's lives. By highlighting such areas as conveyancing, contracts, divorce, separate estates, and widows' provisions, the author presents a full picture of women's legal rights from 1750 to 1830. Focusing on the jurisdictions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina, Salmon shows regional variations in the law that affected women's autonomous control over property.
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African American Women of the Old West by Tricia Martineau WagnerThe brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male -- and not only white. "African American Women of the Old West" profiles ten incredible women overlooked in most history books; their stories are reconstructed from historic documents found in century-old archives. Some of these African American pioneer women were slaves, some were free, and some lived both ways during their lifetime. Among them were laundresses, freedom advocates, journalists, educators, midwives, business proprietors, religious converts, philanthropists, mail and freight haulers, and civil and social activists.
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The Pioneer Women of the West
by Elizabeth F. Ellet
This volume contains the biographical sketches of 58 women who, after the American Revolution, moved across the Appalachian Mountains to settle in the vast country between Tennessee and Michigan. Originally published in 1873, most of the information in this book was provided by the women's descendants, although a few sketches were based on materials submitted to Ellet by the women themselves.
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The Hidden Half of the Family: A sourcebook for women's genealogy by Christina K. SchaeferFor centuries women were not allowed to own real estate in their own name, sign a deed, devise a will, or enter into contracts. Finding women in traditional genealogical record sources, therefore, presents the researcher with a unique challenge, for census records, wills, land records, pension records--the conventional sources of genealogical identification--all have to be viewed in a different perspective if you are to establish the genealogical identity of your female ancestors. This valuable work explores how women have been written out of genealogical history and demonstrates how their identities can be recovered.
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Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian SchlisselMore than 250,000 Americans crossed the continental U.S. between 1840 and 1870 in one of the greatest migrations of modern times. The men of the rugged frontiers have become an integral part of our history and folklore, but pioneering was, in fact, a family matter, and the westering experiences of American women are central to an accurate picture of what life was like on the frontier.
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Women in Congress, 1917-2006 prepared under the direction of the Committee of House Administration of the U.S. House of RepresentativesLike all history, the story of women in Congress is defined by change over time: From a complete lack of representation in Congress before 1917, women have advanced to party leadership at the start of the 21st century. At times during the roughly 90 years (at the book's publication) women have served Congress, change has been almost imperceptible, as exemplified by the subtle shift in women's committee assignments after WWII. At other times, change has been bold and dramatic, as evidenced by the 1992 "Year of the Woman" elections. This volume chronicles all 229 women (from 1917 to 2006) who have served in the House and Senate.
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Reassembling Female Lives
by National Genealogical Society
Eighty-seven percent of the population in the U.S. can be uniquely identified by their date of birth, gender, and five-digit ZIP code. So why do we see a brick wall when records fail to name an ancestral wife or mother? Because most women did not create the records we expect to find for males. This special issue of the NGS Quarterly focuses on the premise of "talked about" and follows the trail of "talked about" documents until a web of associates is woven that offers details about a woman's identity.
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Female Index to "Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England" by James Savage compiled by Patty Barthell MyersMany people agree that Savage's book is one of the greatest works ever published on New England genealogy. In each of the four volumes published in alphabetical sequence by family name, the men were usually found by checking for the surname. Women, however, were scattered throughout the four volumes, some under their fathers' names, some under their husbands' names (and many women had three or more spouses). If the husbands' names were unknown, their wives could not be found. This female index, published about 150 years after the "Dictionary" first came out, lists all women alphabetically by their maiden name and by all their married names.
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Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & letters from the western trails 1840-1849 by Kenneth L. HolmesExperience the voices of such women as Tamsen Donner and Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on the trail between Omaha and Salt Lake City; and Rachel Fisher who buried both her husband and her young daughter before reaching Oregon. They and the other women in this book, all starting out from different places, recorded considerable details about their westward journeys -- from the mundane to the spirit-lifting to the soul-shattering.
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