Volume 14 , Issue 10

NW Okie's Corner

Have you ever wonder "If" your ancestor's had participated in the Suffrage movement of the 1850's and the Women's Suffrage movement of the 19th & 20th century? If you could go back before your ancestors had died to ask them about their involvement in the Suffrage movements, what would you ask them? It would help fill-in a few pieces of the puzzle to be able to interview them today!

Since I have been piecing together the puzzle of my grandparent's and family ancestry, I have discovered an interesting part of myself through the "Who," "Why," "Where" and "What" my pioneer ancestor's went through before and after they emigrated from their native soils of Holland, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Austria-Hungary, Germany, United Kingdom and perhaps even the western portion of Russia. Piecing the ancestry puzzle has been interesting, but hard work at times!

Our ancestor's journeyed across the vast ocean for months on end as either indentured servants, political and/or religious refugees just to immigrate to a "New World" for a "New Beginning" that was promised to them as a life free of political, religious and financial persecution.

I have discovered that I have grown beyond my Northwest Oklahoma upbringing only to become a more global human being. Discovering my family roots and history of where they settled; how they lived; and what they endured. It has given me a new perspective of their lives, mine and others. For instance, our Dutch ancestry settled in Flatland (Long Island), New Amsterdam (New York). As for the German, Irish, Welsh, Scots and British, we find those ancestors settling in the Pendleton, Bath and Highland areas in the mountains and Valleys of Virginia during the eighteenth century. Some coming through the Carolina's where their ships docked after months of traveling across the vast ocean from their native lands.

Our Bohemian roots came through Ellis Island only to move westward to Nebraska before moving down to Kansas and Oklahoma Territory. After landing in America, our German ancestors moved through Pennsylvania, finally settling in the Pendleton area of Virginia.

As we look back to our beginnings of the OkieLegacy Ezine newsletter, we find it was the Spring of 1998 when Oakie's Heart To Heart emerged with today's "NW Okie" going by the icon of "Okie Belle." From the Spring of 1998 we grew, aged gracefully through the years to the present, finding ourselves growing beyond our Northwest Oklahoma roots, moving as a "Soaring Eagle" to a "Global NW Okie."

It has been an interesting journey for the last fourteen (14) years, regretting none of it! The ups and downs, especially the downs, have helped make this NW Okie a stronger, determined woman!

Yes! I am Strong! I am Woman! I may or may not be invincible! You might hear me roar from time to time when I see injustice unfairly used to spread "Libel & Slander" in defamation of someone or someone's family personal character. I believe in Equality for all genders, culturals and races around the World. I also believe in using good-natured compromise between rival parties!

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