Finding Your Female Ancestor

Find the suffragists in your family history with Sarah Pfundstein, Genealogy Collection Librarian for Indiana State Library. Tracing your female ancestors can be frustrating due to challenges such as name changes and lack of documentation. This program will explore resources, best practices, and tips for finding the elusive women in your family tree.

Free. Online via Zoom.

This event is part of the Suffrage Centennial Block Party celebrating the 100th anniversary of women voting in Indiana! Join scholars, thinkers, artists, and our Hoosier community for a week of free talks, parties, workshops, happy hours, and fun. Online and in your own backyard. 

This program is brought to you by the  Indiana State Library and the Indiana Historical Society in conjunction with the Indiana Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indiana Humanities, Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites, and Indiana Statehouse Tour Office.