Have you ever noticed the details in your ancestral photos? Some of them may yield clues to the identity of your female ancestors.
As a family historian, you know that locating information on your female ancestors is challenging. The legal requirement and social tradition of taking the husband’s surname after marriage makes it difficult to track down material on the women in the family tree.
Attics, trunks, boxes, old albums, and the memories of the oldest generation are too often the sole keepers of our most fragile family treasures. The family treasures I’m referring to are not fine jewels, silver, gold, or china; they are the things you and I, as family historians, value even more.
The Oxford Atlas of World History: Concise Edition
By Patrick K. O’Brien, General Editor. Oxford University Press, 2002. Hardcover. $45 plus s/h. Order at www.oup-usa.org/atlas.
The Oxford Atlas won’t reveal an ancestor, but it is sure to expose the times in which your ancestors lived. Not only is this atlas new, it’s also ambitious.
