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HOW MANY TIMES WAS THE VICE PRESIDENCY VACANT?
The Society of Presidential Descendants Panel highlighted that there were long periods when we had no Vice President since both Taft and Truman inherited the Presidency. The vice presidency has been vacant 18 times, totaling 38 years. The occurrence was due to the death or resignation of the Vice President or when the Vice President assumed the Presidency after the death or resignation of the President.
Here are the periods of Vice President Vacancy:
1. April 20, 1812 – March 4, 1813, when George Clinton died (see previous story).
2. November 23, 1814 – March 4,...
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GENEALOGISTS VISITED THE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS MUSEUM
NEW YORK – February 25, 1983- Tennessee Williams' younger brother said Friday he believed the famed playwright had returned to a life of drugs just months before he died.
Reached by telephone in Collinsville, Ill., shortly after his brother died in a Manhattan hotel suite, Dakin Williams, 64, told UPI Tennessee Williams' health and stamina have been going downhill for the past three months.'
Dakin Williams, whose relationship with his brother had been strained for years, offered no proof that the playwright had returned to narcotics but volunteered his suspicions.
'I think he'd gone back on drugs. His...
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GENEALOGY IS FUN- YOU CAN HELP WITH THE INVESTIGATION OF THE JFK ASSASSINATION
President John F. Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963. Nearly 30 years after his death, Congress enacted the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. The Act mandated that all assassination-related material be housed in a single collection in the National Archives and Records Administration.
The resulting Collection consists of more than 5 million pages of assassination-related records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings and artifacts (approximately 2,000 cubic feet of records).
Most of the records from the JFK Assassination Records Collection are open for research, and...
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ANCESTORS THAT DON'T LOOK A DAY OVER 112!
World's Oldest Living Man Is Nearly 113, Has 41 Grandchildren and Enjoys a Popular Drink 'Every Day'
This Venezuelan man is almost 113 years young!
Juan Vicente Pérez Mora, who is 112 years and 355 days old as of Tuesday, was just named the oldest living man by Guinness World Records.
"My dad is in very good health," daughter Nelyda Perez, one of his 11 children, told the record-keeping organization. "He does not suffer from any disease that requires medical treatment."
"The whole family is very grateful," she added.
The supercentenarian, who is the ninth of 10 children,...
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HISTORY OFTEN REPEATS ITSELF!
The news cycle keeps saying that the last time the U.S. Capitol was attacked was during the War of 1812. Not sure how or why they all missed discovering this occurrence. The last time the U.S. Capitol was attacked was in 1971. Ironically, the bombing was attributed to anti-war protestors upset over the bombing of Laos. Read the excerpt below on what was done to make sure the US. Capitol would not be subject to attack in the future
Ever hear of Jacob Leisler? I had not until coming across him in some recent research.
In 1691, he was...
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Good morning fellow descendants,
I recall a cousin of my mom’s years ago, asking, “so when do you say you’re done with your search? When you get back to Adam and Eve?”
That is a good question, as a lot of folks like me research their family history, collecting thousands of pages of material, pictures, and documents. If you don’t take steps to say, “Ok, I could find more, but I am at the point, where I need to bring some closure, and put the materials in a format where they can be enjoyed and will survive for future generations.”
If you don’t ever...
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Good morning preservers of the family legacy,
A lot of times folks ask us how to preserve their family heirlooms. Of course, our first advice is to capture a digital record of the heirloom and let’s then put that picture into Your Dancestors ancestry book, so you have it stored somewhere else. Here’s some advice from an insurance company:
https://www.farmers.com/learn/plan-and-prep/ideas-for-protecting-heirlooms/
Some updates on the use of DNA to solve crimes:
Police were cracking cold cases with a DNA website. Then the fine print changed.
“There are cases that won’t get solved or will take longer to solve,” a Florida law enforcement official said.
https://apple.news/
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/genetic-genealogy-dna-database-criminal-investigations/
While being the family historian...
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Good morning mortals,
With my profession, I read more obituaries than most folks. None of us like to think about how someone is going to explain what we did during the “dash” as in John Smith lived from XXXX – YYYY. Unless you’re a serious planner, likely someone will have to write one for you. Have you ever wondered, who writes them?
Obit writers: Deadly serious about their craft
At ObitCon, members of the Society of Professional Obituary Writers talk about the privilege of honoring lives well-lived. Mo Rocca reports on the annual gathering of obit writers, and their awards ceremony, where they...
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Good morning to the living (who get the other 363 days),
I’ve included below the link and Wikipedia article for Days of the Dead for further knowledge. This year the Days of the Dead are celebrated from October 31st until November 2nd. Of course, we all know what day falls into that span- Halloween! Halloween’s icons include the black clad witches upon their brooms as some of us grew up seeing in the Wizard of Oz.
It made me wonder how many witches or witchcraft stories exist in our family histories?
So I did an inventory, and I thought you’d be interested in...
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Good morning possible cousins,
Most of us grew up knowing we couldn’t and shouldn’t of even think of marrying our cousins. Did we ever wonder why that was? Did we assume that’s it’s always been like that?
Back in the day, how far a man could ride on horseback was often the limit to whom he could choose to court. For a boy to even meet a girl with future marriage in mind, she would have to attend his church as outside of immediate neighbors the folks you met at church were likely the only ones of marital age. When folks moved...
