Dear Legacy Family Tree Webinar Subscribers,
I'll admit…I wasn't too sure if the topic of this webinar, "Women Homesteaders and Genealogy" was really going to be for me. Turns out it was one of my all-time favorites.
Sure, I've got lots of women in my pedigree (about half of my ancestors…) but didn't the men take care of the homestead applications? Turns out, it doesn't matter, because one resource Gail Blankenau mentioned solved one of my brick walls – for one of the men in my pedigree. While she was speaking, I casually did an online search in the database she recommended, for my Nathan R. Brown ancestor. What I found, I had been seeking for years! The 20-page homestead file, which was published in its entirety online, gave a potential exact place of birth for my Nathan!! He signed it with his personal signature.
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This was our second recorded BONUS addition to the webinar library (not available as a live broadcast). If you have U.S. ancestors alive during the passage of the 1862 Homestead Act you need to see this webinar. Be sure to download Gail's 15 pages of supplemental syllabus materials as well.
Click here to watch the 54 minute recording of "Women Homesteaders and Genealogy" and download/print the 15 pages of supplemental syllabus materials or click here to subscribe.
Just saw the notice of “Women Homesteaders…” so I did a quick scan of her syllabus. Wow, was I surprised, Fold 3 was a major source. So, I quick called up a genie friend who helps with Fold 3 on military searches and told her what I found. Gave her info and she didn’t know that women homesteaders was an area on Fold 3. We will meet next week to see what she has found. Turns out she had women homesteaders in North Dakota and mine was in South Dakota. So, glad you added this and that I finally signed up for the annual subscription to Legacy Family Tree Webinars. I don’t think I’ve missed any Family Tree Webinar from the beginning, but there are many from the past I like to go in and review for my research and to share with my Irish Research Group.
Thanks,
DLMcGowan