This week, WikiTree is celebrating women in genealogy. (WikiTree Women's Week -
Women in Genealogy. March is recognized as Women˙s History Month in the United States, Germany, and Australia. International Women's Day was March 8.)
Per wikitree.com I am:
15 degrees from Laura Wilder
23 degrees from Barbara Bradford
19 degrees from Dorothy Day
18 degrees from Mazo De La Roche
23 degrees from Jeannie Gunn
29 degrees from Lorraine Hansberry
20 degrees from Billie Holiday
20 degrees from Sarah Le Sourd
31 degrees from Marga Minco
18 degrees from Marilyn Monroe
19 degrees from Michelle Obama
20 degrees from Nancy Rodd
More about them:
Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House on the Prairie series and more.
Barbara Taylor Bradford, author of "Woman of Substance," which mirrors her own family
history.
Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker House movement and author of "The Long
Loneliness," a book about her life and conversion.
Mazo de la Roche, author of the Jalna series, telling the history of a family establishing
itself in Canada, based on her family's stories.
Jeannie Gunn, author of "We of the Never Never" and "The Little Black Princess: a True
Tale of life in the Never-Never Land" with stories of her experiences in Australia.
Lorraine Hansberry, author of the play, "Raisin in the Sun," based on her family's
experiences of being the only Black family in a Chicago neighborhood.
Billie Holiday, blues diva who wrote the memoir, "Lady Sings the Blues."
Catherine Marshall, author of the novel, "Christy," based on her mother's life in the
Appalachians, and "A Man Called Peter" about her husband.
Sara "Marga" Minco, author of "Bitter Herbs" and other stories based her experiences as
a young Jewish woman during the Nazi occupation.
Marilyn Monroe, whose "My Story" was published posthumously.
Michelle Obama, former First Lady of the USA, who wrote her story in her memoir,
"Becoming."
Nancy (Mitford) Rodd, author of "The Pursuit of Love" and other books based on her
family's experiences.
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I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, Afro-American, authors, bank robbers, boxers, comedians, detectives, ghosts, holocaust survivors
Indian chiefs, pro hockey players, singers and musicians, painters, physicians,
politicians, poets, popes, writers, WW I heroes. I guess that I am a collection of
all of them, as we ALL are.
https://www.wikitree.com helps me gather this information with their weekly newsletters. It is totally free and very useful to genealogists.
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