27414 - Gala Banquet: Don't Forget the Ladies - A Genealogist's Look at Women and the Law [ ]

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From: 2016 International Conference on Jewish Genealogy

27414 - Gala Banquet: Don't Forget the Ladies - A Genealogist's Look at Women and the Law

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Presenter: Judy Russell

IAJGS Awards Judy Russell: "Don't Forget the Ladies: A Genealogist's Look at Women and the Law." In early America, women were all too often the people who just weren't there: not in the records, not in the censuses, not on juries, not in the voting booth. The common law relegated women to "protected"? second-class ? status and understanding how they were treated under the law provides clues to finding their identities today.