Women
Womens History Month: Womens Airforce Service Pilots
Adapted and updated from “Memorial Day 2009″ which first appeared simultaneously at GeneaBlogie and The Peripatetic Graveyard Rabbit on May 25, 2009. If you haven’t been to Arlington, Virginia in the last several years, you may not recognize the two memorials shown above. The top one is the “Women in Military Service for America” memorial and it stands near the …
March 17, 2010 Wednesday at 6:34 pm
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I received a comment on the recent post, The Florence Crittenton Homes from Jeannette Yeunyul Pai-Espinosa, President of the National Crittenton Foundation: Thanks Craig for including us here! Today there are 27 Crittenton agencies in 24 states still supporting the empowerment and self sufficiency of young women and their families. Today, Dr. Barrett’s great granddaughter serves on our Board of …
November 30, 2009 Monday at 6:43 pm
Memorial Day 2009
(click for larger image) If you haven’t been to Arlington Cemetery in the last several years, you may not recognize the memorial shown above. It is the “Women in Military Service for America” memorial and it stands near the gate of the cemetery. The women’s memorial is intended to recall all women who gave their lives in military service. But …
May 25, 2009 Monday at 3:40 pm
Carnival of Genealogy: A Tribute to Women
The Carnival is now posted at Jasia’s Creative Gene. There are 31 outstanding selections from both veteran and nedwcomer genea-bloggers. You won’t find my contribution there; I simply ran out of time. But had I had the time, I would have written about Mary Elizabeth Bowser. A Central Intelligence Agency paper tells her story as one of the least-known, but …
March 18, 2009 Wednesday at 6:00 pm
