Comments on: International Women’s Day: Your stories

By: R.Neil McClain

R.Neil McClain — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:10:12 +0000

WILL DO AND WILL ATTEMPT A RE-WRITE OF THIS STORY LATER WHEN I HAVE TIME .
THANK YOU ,
Neil

By: R.Neil McClain

R.Neil McClain — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:08:18 +0000

WHEN IN GRADE 3 OR 4 I DISCOVERED ,IN HISTORY CLASS, THAT WHEN MY GRANDMOTHER IMMIGRATED TO CANADA SHE DID NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE AND WHEN SHE MARRIED MY GRANDFATHER SHE WAS CONSIDERED HIS PROPERTY (LIKE A DONKEY OR HORSE OR SOMETHING ).
THIS REALLY AFFECTED ME EMOTIONALLY , TO THE POINT THAT THE NEXT YEAR ON ENTERING GRADE 4 OR 5 YEAR I REFUSED TO PUT MY BLOOD LINE DOWN AS ANYTHING ELSE BUT CANADIAN ,AS IT WAS REQUIRED TO WRITE IT DOWN AS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CLASS EVERY YEAR TO PUT DOWN YOUR HERITAGE AND I DID NOT EVER KNOW WHAT TO PUT AS THERE WERE MANY BLOOD LINES IN MY HERITAGE AND I HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS PROPER AT THE TIME .AND YOU COULD NOT BE CANADIAN ….AS THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS A CANADIAN !!! WOMEN THANKFULLY HAVE A LOT MORE FREEDOM AND FAIR TREATMENT BY “SOCIETY ” TODAY , ALTHOUGH NOT NEARLY ENOUGH !
just a note to say how far we have come and still need to go and how things taught can have a huge effect on a person !KNOWLEDGE CAN BE FREEDOM !!
MY GRANDMOTHER WAS A STRONG AND GOD HUMAN BEING AND I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND HOW ANYONE WITH A BRAIN COULD TREAT HER THAT WAY …MY GRANDFATHER CERTAINLY DID NOT !

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:22:05 +0000

Thanks for all your comments. We’d be really grateful if you could email stories@myheritage.com with more information about your stories and then perhaps we’ll showcase them on our blog.
Thanks again

By: Gary Odin

Gary Odin — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:12:53 +0000

My aunt was in the Dutch resistance during WWII. A little Jewish girl, whose life she saved, wrote a book about her. It is called “A Trek for Trinie” Her name was Trijntje Roffel. I did not get to know her personally, as our family left the Netherlands in 1950 to move to Canada. Very proud of her.

By: sue mcdonnell

sue mcdonnell — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:20:34 +0000

There are many many women how were never acknowledged in Early Australian History. Most times they wrote about the pioneer men but omitted to say how the women were also pioneers and worked along side the men. They carried their babies and went through child birth without pain relief then carried on after the birth in very primitive conditions. Very little is said of the women of that time in early settlement. It was a matter of survival. A great book to read is ” Dam Whores and Gods People ” gives you a sense of the time and what life was really about.

By: Lois

Lois — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 05:31:07 +0000

My great grandmother was the first white women in the district of Creswick which is a small town in Victoria, Australia, as her husband went to the goldfields he left his wife alone for 2 years the only companions she had was a kangaroo and a wallaby, she waited and waited and he finally returned with no gold and 3 horses. She was noted in our International womens Day in Hepburn Springs in 2008 (Elizabeth Sewell)

By: pat

pat — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:21:29 +0000

my father’s family came to australia 1832 he was a convict. and he had a family of 9 from then on all the children were born to parent each family had anything from 9 to 14 children or more .most of them lived around aust ..and there was lot of poverty.and sickness .and sadness.but they had a go and made it ,as from them we grow grow grow.and the rest is history,so it say’s

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:06:02 +0000

Thanks Mary and Cathy for sharing

By: Cathy Wydner

Cathy Wydner — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:34:19 +0000

I use MyHeritage. I have gone back to 1735, but when I started I did not even know my grandparents name.

By: Cathy Wydner

Cathy Wydner — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:32:54 +0000

My mother raised 10 children. She would not tell us anything about her parents. She had to quit school after the sixth grade. She make all of us go to school, then some to college. Others joined the military. She had several different types of jobs to support us, not seeking welfare. One job was with the government in an ammunition plant. I have had epilepsy since I was 10, but she still make me do my chores, cooking, cleaning up, etc. So I learned to take care of myself. I still have seizures, but I live alone and take care of all my responsibilities.