The Hidden Half of the Family: A Sourcebook for Women's Genealogy by Christina Kassabian Schaefer When faced with an elusive

When faced with an elusive person or missing or contradictory information

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The Hidden Half of the Family: A Sourcebook for Women's Genealogy by Christina Kassabian Schaefer When faced with an elusiveBy law and by custom, women's individual identities have been subsumed by those of their husbands. For centuries women were not allowed to own real estate in their own name, sign a deed, devise a will, or enter into contracts, and even their citizenship and their position as head of household have been in doubt. Finding women in traditional genealogical record sources, therefore, presents the researcher with a unique challenge, for census records,