ABSTRACT
Women are frequently underrepresented in archives all over the world. Archival collections have appeared to leave out the less powerful, working people, ethnic-racial communities and women of all social and economic backgrounds. Until relatively late they have not been considered full-bodied subjects of historical interest or worthy of archival collection. Especially in older sources, most data concerns the privileged and powerful male population, because premodern sources were made for taxation, population records and legal purposes. The lives of those without an estate, status or power left only few marks on these kinds of official records. 1
