Jim would you know the site that would list the names of the people lost in the 1900 storm in Galveston/Port Bolivar? Jackie Deffes At 08:01 AM 5/7/99 -0700, you wrote: >WELDING LINKS: TO OUR MOTHERS, WITH LOVE > > by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG <myravg@prodigy.net> > <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~gormleym/> > >Few genealogists can trace their matrilineal line very far back >-- that's the line from your mother to her mother, to her >mother's mother and so on. It is difficult research because the >surnames change with each generation and fewer records about >females exist. > >However, one woman -- Susanne "Sam" Behling -- decided to do >something about this problem. She started a "Notable Women >Ancestors" Web site and a newsletter where she gathers and >publishes biographical and genealogical information on female >ancestors. > >"All women are notable," Behling says. "There are thousands of >women whose roles in history have often been overlooked . . . >There are an even greater number of women who, while possibly not >contributing anything historically significant, nonetheless >managed to lead very interesting lives." > >The Notable Women Ancestors Web site is located at: ><http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/> > >It has a large and growing database. The majority of the pages at >this site have been contributed by descendants or relatives of >the women. The categories are: adventurers, African Americans, >artists, authors, educators, feisty women, firsts, great mothers, >aunts and grandmas, health care/humanitarian, heroines, humorous, >Native Americans, notorious, pioneers and emigrants, politicians, >political wives and suffragists, religious leaders, royalty, >survivors, and witches. There is a place where you can add >information about your ancestress. > >At the Notable Women Ancestors Web site you can read about such >women as: > > o Sarah Tuttle, who was prosecuted in New Haven, Connecticut >for "sinful dalliance"(publicly exchanging kisses) with a Dutch >sailor in 1660. Seven years later Sarah was brutally killed by >her brother during a quarrel that turned violent. > > o Edith Lusetta (Waite) Delaney, who thought her brother >inherited the "Mosher Millions." She learned differently at the >reading of his will. > >"Notable Women Ancestors," the quarterly newsletter, is available >by annual subscription ($16, check or money order) from the >editor, 2500 N.E. McWilliams Rd., #D8, Bremerton, WA 98311. A >recent issue includes tips on "Civil War Women: Finding >Individual Women in Local, State and Federal Records," >information about "Nineteenth-Century Women and Their Secrets," >and a biography of "The Unforgettable Cherry Sisters," touted as >the "worst-ever" vaudeville act of the 1890s through the 1930s. > >"Let it be to us, then, the family historians and record-keepers >of this generation, to uncover the long-hidden stories of our >female ancestors are waiting to tell and to share them with our >families, other genealogists, teachers and historians," Behling >says. > >I agree. What could be a more a fitting tribute to our mothers >and grandmothers than preserving and sharing information about >them and their lives? > > * * * * * >Previously published by Julia M. Case and Myra Vanderpool >Gormley, CG, Missing Links: A Weekly Newsletter for Genealogists, >Vol. 4, No. 19, 7 May 1999. Please visit the MISSING LINKS Web >page at <http://www.rootsweb.com/~mlnews/index.htm>. > >