{"id":511,"date":"2012-03-16T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/fearless-females-a-lunch-date\/"},"modified":"2013-07-05T13:11:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T18:11:46","slug":"fearless-females-a-lunch-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/fearless-females-a-lunch-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Fearless Females \u2013 A Lunch Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2010, in honor of Women\u2019s History Month, Lisa Alzo created a list of writing prompts for each day during the month of March.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t participate in 2010, so I\u2019m going to take the opportunity to participate this year, since Lisa was kind enough to resurrect her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaccidentalgenealogist.com\/2012\/02\/back-for-third-year-fearless-females-31.html\">prompts for 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you could have lunch with any female family member (living or dead) or any famous female who would it be and why? Where would you go? What would you eat?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nMost of my research efforts lately have centered around my second great-grandmother, Hulda (Wach) Miller Severing.\u00a0 Besides the basic genealogy research, I have gone through ten years of newspapers (yes, every issue, page-by-page) to learn more about her, her family, and the society of which she spent fourteen years of her life.\u00a0 Although the newspaper research has been helpful in understanding her life during those ten years, it doesn\u2019t answer some of the specific questions I have asked myself for years.<\/p>\n<p>If I could have lunch with her, I\u2019d be armed with the following questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why did you decide to leave your family in Germany, at the age of 15, to come to America?<\/li>\n<li>How did you later convince the rest of the family to immigrate to America several years later?<\/li>\n<li>What was your marriage to Emil Miller like?\u00a0 Why did you separate, and eventually decide many years later to formally divorce him and marry John Severing?<\/li>\n<li>Do you have any idea what happened to Emil after the divorce?\u00a0 Was he still part of your children\u2019s lives?<\/li>\n<li>How did you meet John living some 70 miles away from him?<\/li>\n<li>What was your son Emil (my great-grandfather) like as a child?\u00a0 What about Henry and Ida?<\/li>\n<li>How did you cope with the difficulties of stomach cancer for over two years?<\/li>\n<li>Which did you prefer, living in the big city of Chicago, or the rural town of Dunham?\u00a0 Why?<\/li>\n<li>What was growing up in Germany like during the 1860-1880s?<\/li>\n<li>I know your mom, Amelia, remarried\u2026what happened to your father Heinrich?<\/li>\n<li>I just recently learned that you had another brother, Carl August\u2026what happened to him?<\/li>\n<li>If you could do it all over again, would you still have left Germany for America?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wow, until writing these out, I had no idea how many questions I actually had\u2026and I\u2019m sure there\u2019s more lurking in my head \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Read all of my <a href=\"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/tag\/fearless-females\/\">Fearless Females posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2010, in honor of Women\u2019s History Month, Lisa Alzo created a list of writing prompts for each day during the month of March.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t participate in 2010, so I\u2019m going to take the opportunity to participate this year, since Lisa was kind 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