Female Ancestors

In the complicated search for additional genealogical research sources online, I ran across "Lost Female Ancestors" today. It is located at http://geneasearch.com/findfemale.htm

Your options are to search for your ancestress by name, alpha by FIRST name, by the way, in case that is all the data you hav. Then fields include: birth date and place, spouse and marriage date, where lived, comments (usually has names of children, documentation sources, such as censuses), the submitter's name and e-mail address. The other otion is to post similar data, in hopes of others sharing data and/or networking together to pool your research potential. Since every generation further back adds more potential descendants to the mix, it make sense to check these types of databases periodically.

Women are notoriously more difficult to find before 1850 in the U.S., as females had few to no political and economic rights, weren't typically the heads of households, and weren't listed on voter lists and so forth. It would be interesting to compare tax lists of widows and single head of household women and land records in a few counties to see how well documented wowmen would have been in the Midwest before 1850. (Sounds like a dissertation topic for someone, if it hasn't been done already!)