Online indexes are a boon to family
historians. But keep in mind that the complex familial relationships affecting
women’s lives can be obscured by the attention given to main names (mostly
male), public organisations (which ignore women) and the algorithms used by
online technology that tend toward that which is visible and easy to access.
And the missing names, the misspelt
names, and data about individuals that is not recorded is still not there in
the index and/or the digitised record and its up to you as the researcher to go
that extra mile and do additional research to find it.
I love this photograph of a very happy bride Eunice Kathleen Johnson 1950.
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