Just an FYI to everyone here: The message posted below to PSRoots and previously posted on OHROOTS, is a copy of an article written by our own Myra Vanderpool Gormley, a syndicated newspaper columnist. The column appears in more than 21 newspapers nationwide and also on the Ancestry web site: http://www.ancestry.com/columns/myra/index.htm http://www.ancestry.com/columns/myra/Shaking_Family_Tree06-04-98.htm Whoever first posted this (not you Rose, but the original person on the other list) and began forwarding it by e-mail to thousands of other people should be advised that this violates US copyright law. It is illegal to copy articles such as this and post them without permission of the author and copyright holder. Since Myra's name was left off and there was no notation as to where the article came from, I can assume that the people who have forwarded the article since that time were unaware of the origins of the article. From what I understand of copyright law, being ignorant of the origins doesn't always hold us harmless. I'm not telling you all that to frighten you, but to help educate each of us about the circumstances. Keep these things in mind whenever you decide to send messages via e-mail (mailing lists or private) 1. If copying something from another mailing list, another person or from a web site, ask permission to copy and forward the information before you do so. 2. If possible, describe the information briefly, then supply a web site URL (address) and point the readers to the original source, rather than repeating it yourself. 3. Always give the author credit and cite the source of the material. Supply the book's title, the author's name, the publication date, the web site title, the web site URL, the web site publication date, etc. Hope you all find this information useful, Cyndi P.S. The definitely applies to copies of newspaper articles being posted here. Summarize the articles, then point us to the web site online so we can read the original for ourselves. At 11:36 AM 11/23/98 -0800, you wrote: >Here's something fun I wanted to share that I found on the >OHROOTS-L mailList: > > SCHOOLMARMS ON THE FRONTIER > >GO WEST YOUNG MAN-was also heeded by a virtually unnoticed group of >women. > >Nearly 600 single young women from Northern New England and upper New >York State, sponsored by the National Board of Popular Education, >participated in the Westward Migration in the decade following 1846. It >is estimated that probably close to a thousand single women teachers >journeyed from the East to teach in the West and South before the Civil >War. > >EVEN earlier in the 1830s, 88 teachers from Zipah Grant's Female >Seminary in Ipswich, Mass. answered the call to start schools in the >West and South. > >Grant established an association in 1835 to lend money to teachers who >wish to train at Ipswich for teaching positions in the West. Her plan, >combining specific training and financial aid with placement in the >West, is said to have been a model for the National Board's program a >decade later. > >IT is not unusual for a genealogist to discover an ancestor who was a >teacher "out west." Then out west may have been Ohio, Michigan, >llinois, Indiana or Missouri in the early 19th century. Although the >women sent by the National Board pledged to teach for only two years in >the West, a search revealing the subsequent lives on nearly 40 percent >of the teachers shows that 2/3 rds. of them made a permanent transition >from East to West. A majority of them made homes in growing towns from >Indiana west to the border of Nebraska Territory, and a few became >pioneer settlers of Oregon and California. > >NEARLY 80 percent of the women teachers who have been traced married >and >became pioneer settlers. Those who remained single either continued to >teach or worked in the developing social-service professions. >Several of >the pioneer teachers responded to the call to teach the newly freed >men, >women, and children in the South in the 1860s. > >THE picture painted of the schoolmarm from the East-moral, >self-sacrificing, discreet, dedicated to the welfare of children, >capable of bringing out the best in men and unconcerned with personal >goals or needs-is, of course, a stereotype. Letters, reminiscences >and a >diary of women teachers who traveled to teach on the western frontiers >before the Civil War are extant, and these documents tell remarkable >stories. Manuscripts pertaining to nearly 200 such women survive and >are the basis of an engaging book called "WOMEN TEACHERS ON THE >FRONTIER," by Polly Welts Kaufman. There are pictures of the teachers, >and maps and pictures of the old schoolhouses. There is also a list of >women, when and where born, places they taught, names of their husbands >and when and where they died. > >-- > \\\|/// > \\ ~ ~ // > ( @ @ ) > -oOOo-(_)-oOOo- >Rose CAUDLE TERRY, Washington state >BILYEU Listowner/Listmother (genealogical) & Proud RootsWeb Sponsor >RMTerry@prodigy.net or cxwp57@prodigy.com >http://www.genealogy.bilyeu.com/