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22 Feb

Posted at 17:01h in Newsletter

ANCESTRY- THE SOCIETY OF PRESIDENTIAL DESCENDANTS GATHER AGAIN A year ago, we attended a panel of the Society of Presidential Descendants on President’s Day weekend at the Truman Little White House- 2024 Society of Presidential Descendants We enjoyed it enough to go again this year. In addition to the descendants of Truman, Eisenhower, Carter, and Cleveland, we also had a descendant of Grant and Teddy Roosevelt in attendance this year. Here are some of the tidbits from the panel: Ulysses Grant Dietz told us of the irony in that General Grant, who became the Union Army soldier most responsible for ending the scourge of...

08 Feb

Posted at 14:52h in Newsletter

GENEALOGIST- THE ANABAPTIST PRESIDENTS In our last edition, we discussed Anabaptist beliefs and our visit to the Behalt Anabaptists Now, we will visit which presidents were raised as Anabaptists and how their early spiritual lives may have influenced them. There were three presidents all Republican from Hoover through Nixon, and their terms were only interrupted by Democrats FDR, Truman, and Kennedy. The picture to the right shows Eisenhower, Nixon (foreground), and Hoover behind them. The 1953 picture of Eisenhower's inauguration at the bottom shows Hoover behind the Chief Justice and VP Nixon to the right of Eisenhower. The three of them, including Truman,...

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