What a wonderful idea ! Can we also do an article or report on the Pennington ladies who were called "Rosie's" I believe during WW II ? The ladies who helped build the bombers and other supply planes/equipment while the men were off serving in the war. There were 3 of these ladies sitting in my DAR meeting this week (oddly, one is related to a NJ Pennington - she doesn't know her group #) and we got on this subject so I find it odd that Gene now brings up honoring those who served since they are related subjects. The group 6 "photo album" did include one WW II serviceman in the newest CD issue. Father of Wanda Gail Pennington-Parker and his name was Clyde Wayne Pennington. Are there anymore that cousins can submit? I might be able to pull a few more WW II service photo's out of my hat but not many. This sort of goes against the future article that Peggy Pennington (Group Leader 2 - 24) and I have been talking about putting together "Bad Boy Pennington's" which will show penitentary mug shots and rap sheets. I guess it could be a Heroes vs. Thug's, kind of thing. (just teasing, of course) ;o) Again, great idea ! Melinda Grp 6 Leader On 5/10/07, Gene Pennington <genepenn1@comcast.net> wrote: > > Carmen's recent posting to this list reminded me that one of the projects > I > want to work on in the future is to publish in the Pennington Pedigrees, > information about any Pennington who served in WWII. This will include, > but > not be limited to, military service record, personal family history > (descendants & ancestors), photographs, memorabilia, personal stories of > service and/or action, and similar related items. > > Many of us have parents who served in WWII and we've collected stories, > photographs and memorabilia over the years. Many of these members of "The > Greatest Generation" are still with us and would love to share their > stores > - all we have to do is ask. > > This project is just starting to take shape so most of the details have > not > been nailed down yet. To protect individuals' privacy, the information > will > NOT include any personal information on any living persons nor will it > include social security or military identification numbers of any person > included in the research. This does not restrict us from including > information on living persons, it just means we won't publish personal > information such as dates of birth, marriage, etc. and the same will be > true > for any of their descendants. > > Since we're now publishing the Pedigrees on a CD, we can include all kinds > of things and we have lot's of ways to really make the article/s > interesting > and in some cases, interactive. Carmen's example of a website for her > great > uncle's military experience at --> www.sunsetters38bg.com can be included > on > the CD so readers can click on the website link and go directly to > it. Wow! > > Depending on how many articles and how much material we collect, we may > have > to spread them out over several issues of the Pedigrees. When we're > through > publishing all the material, we can later produce a single CD with the > information all on the one CD. Of course, like all the PRA's > publications, > the CD/s will be sent to the PRA Archives/Library where they will be > maintained and placed on the Internet. Wow again! > > This is an open ended project at this time and I welcome your comments and > suggestions. When I have enough to put more together, I'll work with > Colleen Blizard, Editor, and the PRA Board to see where this idea can go. > > I'm personally excited about the project because I've been collecting > information and photographs of my Grandfather and Dad for several years > and > I think it will great to share it with other Pennington researchers. > > I'm going to post a similar message to this on the PRA blog at --> > http://praresearch.blogspot.com and include a couple of photographs as > examples. > > Gene Pennington (Group 7) > Chairman > Research Director > Pennington Research Association, Inc. > www.PenningtonResearch.org > PRA Blog - http://praresearch.blogspot.com > > > > *************************************** > Please note NEW address to post to the list: PRA@rootsweb.com > ************************************** > For more information about the PRA including our DNA Study, visit us at > http://www.penningtonresearch.org > ************************************** > Learn what's new at the PRA by going to http://www.penningtonresearch.organd click on the "News" link on the left side of the page. > *************************************** > Visit the PRA Blog at --> http://praresearch.blogspot.com. > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PRA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > -- Melinda Pennington