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22 Mar

Posted at 13:58h in Newsletter

GENEALOGY- DID GRANDPA INVENT THE POTATO CHIP? In a couple of recent editions, we covered the legends surrounding Tom Smith. His father, John Addison Smith IV, had his own amazing stories that I discovered while working on their genealogy. According to legend, Addison was a dreamer, a gambler, and an inventor. It was said that Addison went “through three fortunes in his lifetime”. He claimed one of his inventions was the “potato chip.” I researched the history of the potato chip, and references to it began to appear in cookbooks from 1817 to 1832. Since Addison was not born in 1841, the story...

12 Mar

Posted at 12:54h in Newsletter

ANCESTORS- YOUR 3X GREAT UNCLE DIES, AND HE'S REPLACED BY A LINCOLN CONSPIRATOR Suppose you were planning to visit Dry Tortugas National Park and were interested in whether you would come across headstones, gravestones, markers, or cenotaphs. In that case, this is the response you would get from AI: The only identified gravestone at Dry Tortugas National Monument belongs to a man named John Greer, a laborer who died at Fort Jefferson on November 5, 1861, and whose headstone was discovered underwater by archaeologists. However, AI has not visited the Dry Tortugas, as we came across one of our client’s third Great-Uncles,...

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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