Nancy Bane troubled me. And Delia Gordon will always be a thorn in my side. These are two of the women of the past I'm researching, and one of them isn't even my ancestor. I happened to stumble upon Nancy in records while I was looking for one of mine; yet her life intrigued me and yearned to be told.

Do you have your own Nancy or Delia, women whose stories remain tantalizingly incomplete? Do you have female ancestors on your pedigree chart for whom you don't have a maiden name? Or perhaps you have female ancestors for whom you don't know the names of their parents. Maybe you have female ancestors missing a first name, not to mention a maiden name and parents. You're not alone; we all have them.