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Let's hear it for the ladies! I invite everyone to locate on Geni, document their genealogies, and create biographies for the inspiring women of what became the United States of America. Native Americans, Women of the Spanish and French colonies, Early American settlers, frontierswomen, families of the Royal Governors ... don't let my ideas limit yours. I think of the War of 1812 as the cutoff date and no beginning date. If they lived here, we need to know more about them.
Here's a list to start with, please add more.
- Abigail Adams
- Annis Boudinot Stockton
- Betsy Ross
- Catharine Littlefield Greene
- Catherine Livingston Ridley
- Cecily Reynolds Farrar
- Deborah Champion Gilbert
- Deborah Sampson
- Deborah Read Franklin
- Dolley Madison
- Dorothy Quincy Hancock
- Eliza Pinckney
- Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson
- Elizabeth Maxwell Steele
- Emma Lazarus (Project Photo)
- Esther De Berdt Reed
- Hannah Lee Corbin
- Kerenhappuch Norman Turner
- Laodicea "Dicey" Langston SPRINGFIELD
- Laura Collins Wolcott
- Lydia Darragh
- Margaret Bayard Smith
- Margaret Cochran Corbin
- Martha Bratton
- Martha Jefferson
- Martha McFarland McGee Bell
- Martha Washington
- Mary Digges Lee
- Mary Katherine Goddard
- Mary Leroy Livingston
- Mercy Otis Warren
- Mary Ludwig Hays
- Molly Stark
- Nancy Hart
- Nanyehi Nancy Ward
- Penelope Barker
- Phillis Wheatley
- Prudence Cummings Wright
- Rebecca Motte
- Sacajawea
- Sarah Livingston Jay
- Susannah Livingston Symmes
- Sybil Ludington
- Theodosia Burr
Resources
- Women's History Blog
- Roberts, Cokie. Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation. New York: William Morrow, 2008. Print.
- Dern, Laura, and Geena Davis. Rabbit Ears Native American Heroines: Song of Sacajawea. Princess Scargo. New York: Random House/Listening Library, 2007. Sound recording.
- American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country webcast with Kay Bailey Hutchinson
- Notable Women
- Founding mothers : the women who raised our nation by Cokie Roberts