Session 2 – Sifting Through The Cookbooks For Our Female Ancestors – Eleanor Brinsko
There’s something special about cooking that can bring us back to a particular place, time, conversation, experience, family. Eleanor Brinsko will be looking at the history of the evolution of home cooking and how we can use these recipes, cookbooks, and experiences to help us further our genealogical research and family history presentation.
Get a head start on this presentation by digging out the family recipes, church cookbooks, and newspaper clippings of recipe entries. Unfortunately, we will not be providing the food; we’ll leave that up to you.
- Introduction
- The importance of the kitchen
- Brief history of cookbooks in America
- Earliest cookbooks
- War cookbooks
- Competition cookbooks
- Types of community-published cookbooks
- Church/religious organization
- Businesses
- Promotional
- How to research female ancestors
- a. Newspapers
- Cookbooks
- Radio shows
- Creating your own genealogical cookbook
- Shutterfly
- Mixbook
- Recipe box
- Binder
- Videos
Audience Level: Beginner-Intermediate
The video can be viewed in fullscreen by clicking on the expand icon (four diagonal arrows) in the black video control bar.
Eleanor Brinsko
Eleanor Brinsko is a professional genealogist who specializes in Scandinavian-American genealogy by looking at genealogical and social trends on both sides of the Atlantic. Eleanor has given lectures for the Wisconsin Historical Society and public libraries, genealogical societies, and family reunions across the country. She taught a graduate-level genealogy course for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s iSchool. Eleanor has contributed the PBS Show “Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s ‘Finding Your Roots.’”
