"Queens of the Mines" Women of the Gold Rush with Andrea Anderson -Family Genealogy tips

The California Gold Rush had some amazing pioneer women. Andrea Anderson is a podcaster and author from Sonora, CA that has chronicled their stories. Andrea starts her journey by a researching her own family that goes back generations in Sonora. She quickly uncovered stories like that of Josefa Segovia , a famously hung woman, Luzena Wilson who got rich cooking for the miners , a woman who became America's first African- American millionaire and Charley Parkhurst a famous tough, presumed male stagecoach driver who was discovered to be a woman while being prepared for burial.

Andrea also give us some tips on genealogy research and one of her favorite tools is Find a grave.

https://www.findagrave.com

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