Category Archives: Women’s History Month

My Great Grandmother Registered to Vote?

[Another repost...Fearless Females-Women's History Month, March 19th:  A Surprising Fact] While looking through the voter registration books for 1937, I came upon a surprising entry. My Great Grandmother, Maria (de Braga) Pacheco Smith, was listed. This might not have been so surprising had my Great Grandmother been a US Citizen.  But, she wasn’t.  In fact, …

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Auntie Cosma: A Woman of Many Talents

[Reposted for Fearless Females-Women's History Month.  March 18th, Shining Star] I originally wrote this for Women’s History Month.  Marie Cosma was the family midwife, seamstress, a woman many referred to as Grandma.  I think she is probably the woman in my tree that most people remembered and  remarked on her many talents… Every genealogist has …

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Fearless Females: Grandma Was A Radical!

[Fearless Females, 17th of March, Social Organizations and Groups...a report from 2011 Not really.  But it makes for a great headline.  LOL I don't know what organizations my Grandma Shellabarger belonged to while raising her family.  I don't really think she had much time for them to tell you the truth. In the 1980s, she …

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