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Title: A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Female Ancestors : Special Strategies for Uncovering Hard-To-Find Information About Your Female Lineage by Sharon Debartolo Carmack ISBN: 1-55870-472-8 Publisher: Betterway Pubns Pub. Date: March, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Disappointing -- more facts, less speculation needed
Comment: While the first few chapters of this book are moderately helpful, much of the book seemed to be devoted to "imagining" what life would be like for female ancestors. While this might prove to be an entertaining exercise, it is not consistent with good genealogical research.
Rating: 5
Summary: Insightful and in-depth research approaches about women
Comment: Well-written, well-organized and enjoyable to read, this outstanding genealogical research tool provides an excellent in-depth, insightful, integrated approach to genealogical research, particularly focused on researching our female family members. It contains a good explanation of means of tracing women when their surnames have changed, and very extensive bibliographies that are exhaustively research sources on women's property rights, childbearing and women's health care.
It sets out a well-explained technique of developing, writing and preserving one's family story as an organized historical narrative, with all the information one has obtained, so that the information paints a family's portrait(s), gives meaning to facts, organizes the source materials logically, and helps to tell the family who they are, why they are the way they are, and where they came from so that the family's history is preserved. This aspect of the book provides a much needed explanation to "weekend" genealogists on how to handle and develop their research results to make sense of them and to preserve the meaning of them.
This is a thoroughly analyzed and helpful book. I have given copies of this book to several people as it responds to research needs at several levels: genealogy, women's rights and issues (property, health, probate/will), family history interests, research skills, even personal journaling and self-discovery through family discovery.
Sharon DeBartolo Carmack has an outstanding ability to teach, and I hope she will continue to expand on her collection of genealogy research books.
Rating: 3
Summary: Far from this author's best work
Comment: Despite the fact that half of everyone's ancestors are women, they traditionally have received short shrift from genealogists. Married women frequently appear on family group sheets as "Elizabeth Blank," teenage daughters are lost track of between censuses if their new husbands' names are unknown, and even the most dedicated family man was apt to leave everything in his will simply to "my wife." (Those of Acadian or Quaker descent are fortunate that religious records usually provide a wife?s maiden name.) Carmack is a well-known author and lecturer and one opens this book with high hopes that she will describe new techniques that will enable one to knock down some of those brick walls. Unfortunately, even the moderately experienced researcher is likely to be disappointed. While the first four chapters are filled with good advice on valuable resources, nearly all of them are equally applicable to researching both men and women: passenger lists, city directories, probate records, interviewing aging relatives, etc. Chapter Five is devoted to writing about women in a family history, and Chapter Six is a brief case study of one of the author's own female ancestors -- but again, the methods described would work just as well for a great-great-grandfather as for his wife. (What does one do to identify a wife who dies before the 1850 census, leaving a dirt-farmer husband unable to read or write, who remarries and leaves his worldly goods to his second wife? I have more than one like that!) Carmack is a specialist in social and ethnic history, which can be very useful in fleshing out one's family research -- but in that case, the title is a bit misleading. She provides full citations for all of her many examples, of course, as well as a 24-page *selected* bibliography -- which may be the most useful part of the book.
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Title: Your Guide to Cemetery Research by Sharon Debartolo Carmack ISBN: 1558705899 Publisher: Betterway Pubns Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Organizing Your Family History Search: Efficient & Effective Ways to Gather and Protect Your Genealogical Research by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack ISBN: 1558705112 Publisher: Betterway Pubns Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian by Elizabeth Shown Mills ISBN: 0806315431 Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Long-Distance Genealogy by Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer ISBN: 155870535X Publisher: Betterway Pubns Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.99 |
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Title: The Sleuth Book for Genealogists: Strategies for More Successful Family History Research by Emily Anne Croom ISBN: 1558705325 Publisher: Betterway Pubns Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.99 |
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