March 3 - List all your female ancestors' maiden names.

March 3 – List all your female ancestors’ maiden names. Then search for them in online genealogy databases.

This will be a great month to expand our research where our female ancestors are concerned.

March 2 - Find the women in your family tree

March 2 – Print ancestor charts and family group sheets for the women in your family tree. Make plans for finding missing facts.

Sometimes we have a habit of giving up too soon on our female ancestors. I find that I come back to them, time and time again trying to glean a little more information about them. You might have to find all their children and hope maybe one of the children has given their mother’s maiden name, so that you can take the research back another generation.