(Submitted)He suspected the women in his family would be harder to trace, especially given that his research was taking him into the 1800s and earlier. And in some earlier census records, women were not listed at all. "Some of the census records, some of the directories that are available, generally don't list the women." But the further back in time you're going, the harder it is to find both the men and the women in your family tree, Angel said. Cemeteries are one source of information, but researchers also use census records and the archives at Memorial University.

Source: CBC News April 28, 2018 16:52 UTC