Little Old Lady ?? T in C; betty ----- Original Message ----- From: <suee@exemail.com.au> To: <aus-nsw@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 5:09 PM Subject: [AUS-NSW] an early acronym L.O.L. > > A happy New year to all! > > I am taking advantage of a lazy New years day and working on my > grandmothers biography. > > Does anyone know what L.O.L may have stood for in 1920? >>From the newspaper article it sounds like it may have been some kind of > Womens league. > > Cheers > > Sue > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-NSW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.725 / Virus Database: 270.14.123/2595 - Release Date: 12/31/09 18:52:00

Hello, I'm just coming across this question, and I was reminded "last year" (last month) that in the US it was the 1920's that women got the "right to vote." And, I found out that they got the right to vote in different years in different countries. I wonder if LOL had something to do with what we have in the US - the "League of Women Voters." I just looked on-line, and, if I'm reading correctly at 5 am (my time), it looks like women got the right to vote in 1902. That's much earlier than the US, and I think English women got the right to vote much later than that, and French women much later. (Saying this from memory from a few weeks ago.) http://labour-movements.suite101.com/article.cfm/australias_unionism_in_the_1900s Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) (In the USA, it took "female activists" 75-100 years to "finally" get the "right to vote.") (I don't know how long it took in other countries. But, I just looked at this site, and it says New Zealand and Australia were the first countries (then Colonies?) to give women the right to vote.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/anthony.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "betty" <bkrhodes@bigpond.net.au> To: <aus-nsw@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 7:04 AM Subject: Re: [AUS-NSW] an early acronym L.O.L. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <suee@exemail.com.au> > To: <aus-nsw@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 5:09 PM > Subject: [AUS-NSW] an early acronym L.O.L. > >> >> Does anyone know what L.O.L may have stood for in 1920? >>>From the newspaper article it sounds like it may have been some kind of >> Womens league.