Miss Manners Sorts Out Ancestor's Marital Status

As I was reading the headlines of various articles from my local paper in Google Reader this morning, the following jumped out at me:

Bible may not indicate ancestor’s marital status

Miss Manners (a.k.a. Judith Martin) does an excellent and interesting job of explaining various women's titles and how they related (or not) to their marital status over time. Read the article here.