HI Everyone, This is from Ancestry newsletter. It has some free databases and interesting sites, you may or may not know about for searching your female ancestors. Happy Hunting, Lesley ============================ >From "Daughters of America; or Women of the Century Chapter II: Women of the Revolution," page 47: "There is ample evidence of the sympathy which the women of those early days of our nation's history felt with the efforts of their countrymen to rid themselves of a foreign yoke. One woman, addressing a British officer in Boston, wrote from Philadelphia as follows: 'I have retrenched every superfluous expense in my table and family. Tea I have not drunk since last Christmas, nor bought a new cap or gown since your defeat at Lexington; and, what I never did before, have learned to knit, and am now making stockings of wool for my servants; and this way do I throw in my mite to the public good. I know this, that as free I can die but once; but as a slave I shall not be worthy of life. I have the pleasure to assure you that these are the sentiments of all my sister Americans. They have sacrificed assemblies, parties of pleasure, tea-drinking, and finery, to that great spirit of patriotism that actuates all degrees of people throughout this extensive continent.'" Hanaford, Phebe A. "Daughters of America; or Women of the Century." (Augusta, ME: True and Co., 1882.) >From the free database online at: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=1644&key=D2039 =================================================================== FAST FACT: WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH LINKS AT ANCESTRY.COM AND BEYOND ===================================================================== ARTICLES AND DATABASES AT ANCESTRY.COM "Female Ancestry," by Roseann R. Hogan, Ph.D. ("Ancestry" Magazine, Mar/Apr 1994, Vol. 12, No. 2) http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=1644&key=A265113 "Disguised Patriots: Women Who Served Incognito," by Elizabeth Kelley Kerstens, CGRS ("Ancestry" Magazine, March/April 2000, Vol. 18 No. 2) http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=1644&key=A251313 "One Crimson Petticoat: Female Lines and Real Lives" -Part 3 by Yvonne P. Divak (Reprinted in the "Ancestry Daily News," 20 March 2000) Part 1 http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=1644&key=A060001 Part 2 http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=1644&key=A062301 Part 3 http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=1644&key=A065001 Part 4 http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=1644&key=A074401 "Looking for the Ladies in the Family Tree," by Juliana Smith ("Family History Compass," 5 March 2001) http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=1644&key=A349308 Women's History Month at Ancestry.com ("Ancestry Daily News," 1999) http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=1644&key=A247701 DATABASES Biographical Cyclopedia of U.S. Women (Free database) http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=1644&key=D2018 Pennsylvania Women in the Revolutionary War (**Requires Ancestry.com Data Subscription) http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=1644&key=D1014 U.S. World War I Mothers' Pilgrimage, 1930 (Free database) http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=1644&key=D4224 Women of the Century (Free database) http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=1644&key=D2039 Women's Suffrage in the Midwest (Free database) http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=1644&key=D4243 OTHER RELATED WEB SITES Notable Women Ancestors http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/ Women's History Commission http://hydra.gsa.gov/staff/pa/whc.htm National Women's History Project http://www.nwhp.org/ Places Where Women Made History (National Park Service) http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/pwwmh/ National Museum of Women's History http://www.nmwh.org/