Researching Pioneer Women: A Few Links

Today is International Women's Day and we are in the midst of Women's History Month.  It seems like a good time share some links about researching your female ancestors.

The following are some links for researching the pioneer women in your ancestry.

Manuscript Collections and Digital Collections

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room

California Libraries Catalog

American Women’s History: A Research Guide

Institutions with Women’s Collections

American Women’s Letters and Diaries: A Bibliography

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections

 PERSI

(Available through Ancestry or Heritage Quest).

Photographs of Alaskan Women 

Online Archives of California

Iowa Women’s Archives, University of Iowa

University of Oregon Manuscript Collections Documenting Women in Society

Daughters of the Utah Pioneers

Sketches of Wisconsin Pioneer Women

Newspapers

Kansas State Historical Society--Large collection of newspapers from throughout the United States, available through interlibrary loan.

Books

Jeffrey, J. R. (1979). Frontier women: the trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1880. American century series. New York: Hill and Wang

Armitage, S. H., & Jameson, E. (1987). The Women's West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Peavy, L. S., & Smith, U. (1996). Pioneer women: the lives of women on the frontier. New York: Smithmark.

Holmes, K. L., & Duniway, D. (1983). Covered wagon women: diaries & letters from the western trails, 1840-1890. Glendale, Calif: A.H. Clark.