Harry D. Truman
Birth: May 8, 1884
Death: December 26, 1972
Term of Office: April 12, 1945 - January 20, 1953



Number of Terms Elected: 2 Terms; Succeeded Franklin Roosevelt after his death in 1945 and then elected to second term
First Lady: Elizabeth "Bess" Virginia Wallace

Harry Truman Quote: "I'm going to fight hard. I'm going to give them hell."

Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States. He succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his fourth term. Truman's presidency is best known for defeating Nazi Germany, founding the United Nations, the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe, the Truman Doctrine to contain communism.


Major Events While in Office:

• Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)
• End of World War II (1945)
• United Nations Created (1945)

Harry D. Truman may have been the first election my mother voted in --- 1948!!!   .... the legal age of voting was 21 ----  in 1948 she would have been newly married in June in Chicago IL... @ 22 yrs of age... where was she that November... still in Chicago or had she moved back to Oklahoma... where was her residency.... and what were the USA's allowable voting for a young black woman (and her mother) .....in Chickasha, Oklahoma ???


Mama-Daddy and Big Mama and Lois and Warren -- should all have had a heightened awareness of political privileges as Ada Lois prevailed in her Supreme Court Case in January of 1948!!!

My Mother lived thru the Great Depression, The New Deal and WWII  ~  1929 to 1945

September 1, 1939

Start of World War II

Germany invaded Poland, setting off the Second World War.

November 8. 1932

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President

November 3, 1936

Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected President

November 5, 1940

Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected to third term

Incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to third term in office over Republican nominee Wendell Willkie

November  1944

Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected to fourth term

April 12, 1945:

Died of a cereberal hemmorhage 4 months into his fourth term as president

Franklin D. Roosevelt(January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945)Personal:
• First Lady: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Wife
• Wife's Maiden Name: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
In 1905, Roosevelt married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, a distant cousin and the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt. She would become Franklin's most influential ally and an active, beloved First Lady. The couple had six children, of whom five survived infancy. Roosevelt was a great companion to his children, especially enjoying outdoor sports with them.

• Number of Children: 5
• Education Level: College
• School Attended: Harvard University
• Religion: Episcopalian
• Profession: Lawyer

Public Service:
• Dates of Presidency: 3/4/1933 - 4/12/1945
• Presidency Number: 32
• Number of Terms: 4
• Why Presidency Ended: Death
• Party: Democratic
• His Vice President(s): John Nance Garner, Henry Agard Wallace, Harry Truman
• Cabinet Service: Ass't Sec. of Navy (Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1920)
• Governor of a State: New York (1929-1933)
• State Legislative Service: NY (1911-1913)

1932	Elected President of the United States.
1933	Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany.
1933	The New Deal began with the "Hundred Days."
1933	The 21st Amendment started, ending Prohibition.
1933	Roosevelt's first official act was the "Bank Holiday."
1933	"Good Neighbor Policy," proclaimed by Roosevelt.
1935	Congress passed the Social Security Act.

	Roosevelt tried to "pack" the Supreme Court with justices of his own choosing, which caused a national controversy.
1939	World War II began with the invasion of Poland. 1940 Re-elected President. 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor seven weeks after Hideki Tojo became premier. 1944 Allied armies landed in Normandy and began the assault on Hitler's "Fortress Europe."

Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."


Born in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York--now a national historic site--he attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. On St. Patrick's Day, 1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt.
Following the example of his fifth cousin, President Theodore Roosevelt, whom he greatly admired, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered public service through politics, but as a Democrat. He won election to the New York Senate in 1910. President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and he was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1920.

In the summer of 1921, when he was 39, disaster hit-he was stricken with poliomyelitis. Demonstrating indomitable courage, he fought to regain the use of his legs, particularly through swimming. At the 1924 Democratic Convention he dramatically appeared on crutches to nominate Alfred E. Smith as "the Happy Warrior." In 1928 Roosevelt became Governor of New York.
He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. In his first "hundred days," he proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, and reform, especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

By 1935 the Nation had achieved some measure of recovery, but businessmen and bankers were turning more and more against Roosevelt's New Deal program. They feared his experiments, were appalled because he had taken the Nation off the gold standard and allowed deficits in the budget, and disliked the concessions to labor. Roosevelt responded with a new program of reform: Social Security, heavier taxes on the wealthy, new controls over banks and public utilities, and an enormous work relief program for the unemployed.
In 1936 he was re-elected by a top-heavy margin. Feeling he was armed with a popular mandate, he sought legislation to enlarge the Supreme Court, which had been invalidating key New Deal measures. Roosevelt lost the Supreme Court battle, but a revolution in constitutional law took place. Thereafter the Government could legally regulate the economy.

Roosevelt had pledged the United States to the "good neighbor" policy, transforming the Monroe Doctrine from a unilateral American manifesto into arrangements for mutual action against aggressors. He also sought through neutrality legislation to keep the United States out of the war in Europe, yet at the same time to strengthen nations threatened or attacked. When France fell and England came under siege in 1940, he began to send Great Britain all possible aid short of actual military involvement.

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Roosevelt directed organization of the Nation's manpower and resources for global war.

Feeling that the future peace of the world would depend upon relations between the United States and Russia, he devoted much thought to the planning of a United Nations, in which, he hoped, international difficulties could be settled.
As the war drew to a close, Roosevelt's health deteriorated, and on April 12, 1945, while at Warm Springs, Georgia, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage.

FDR on racial discrimination, 1942 .

On June 25, 1941, almost six months before the United States’ entry into World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law Executive Order 8802, prohibiting racial discrimination by government defense contractors. The order, which required defense contracts to include a “provision obliging contractors not to discriminate against any worker regardless of race, creed, color, or national origin,” was challenged in January 1942, when a US merchant ship refused to take on twenty-five African American sailors. Roosevelt responded with a strongly worded letter stating that “questions of race, creed and color have no place in determining who are to man our ships. The sole qualifications for a worker in the maritime industry, as well as any other industry, should be his loyalty and his professional or technical ability and training.”
The changes Roosevelt initiated in June 1941 and January 1942 came to fruition with President Truman’s 1948 order desegregating the US Armed Forces.

U.S. Voting Rights

When the Constitution was written, only white male property owners (about 10 to 16 percent of the nation's population) had the vote. Over the past two centuries, though, the term "government by the people" has become a reality. During the early 1800s, states gradually dropped property requirements for voting. Later, groups that had been excluded previously gained the right to vote. Other reforms made the process fairer and easier.

1790 Only white male adult property-owners have the right to vote.                                         Nineteenth Century

1810 Last religious prerequisite for voting is eliminated.

1850 Property ownership and tax requirements eliminated by 1850. Almost all adult white males could vote.

1855 Connecticut adopts the nation's first literacy test for voting. Massachusetts follows suit in 1857. The tests were implemented to discriminate against Irish-Catholic immigrants.

1870 The 15th Amendment is passed. It gives former slaves the right to vote and protects the voting rights of adult male citizens of any race.

1889 Florida adopts a poll tax. Ten other southern states will implement poll taxes.

1890 Mississippi adopts a literacy test to keep African Americans from voting. Numerous other states—not just in the south—also establish literacy tests. However, the tests also exclude many whites from voting. To get around this, states add grandfather clauses that allow those who could vote before 1870, or their descendants, to vote regardless of literacy or tax qualifications.

Twentieth Century

1913 The 17th Amendment calls for members of the U.S. Senate to be elected directly by the people instead of State Legislatures.

1915 Oklahoma was the last state to append a grandfather clause to its literacy requirement (1910). In Guinn v. United States the Supreme Court rules that the clause is in conflict with the 15th Amendment, thereby outlawing literacy tests for federal elections.

1920 The 19th Amendment guarantees women's suffrage.

1924 Indian Citizenship Act grants all Native Americans the rights of citizenship, including the right to vote in federal elections.

1944 The Supreme Court outlaws "white primaries" in Smith v. Allwright (Texas). In Texas, and other states, primaries were conducted by private associations, which, by definion, could exclude whomever they chose. The Court declares the nomination process to be a public process bound by the terms of 15th Amendment.

1957 The first law to implement the 15th amendment, the Civil Rights Act, is passed. The Act set up the Civil Rights Commission—among its duties is to investigate voter discrimination.

1960 In Gomillion v. Lightfoot (Alabama) the Court outlaws "gerrymandering."

1961 The 23rd Amendment allows voters of the District of Columbia to participate in presidential elections.

1964 The 24th Amendment bans the poll tax as a requirement for voting in federal elections.

1965 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., mounts a voter registration drive in Selma, Alabama, to draw national attention to African-American voting rights.

1965 The Voting Rights Act protects the rights of minority voters and eliminates voting barriers such as the literacy test. The Act is expanded and renewed in 1970, 1975, and 1982.

1966 The Supreme Court, in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, eliminates the poll tax as a qualification for voting in any election. A poll tax was still in use in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia.

1966 The Court upholds the Voting Rights Act in South Carolina v. Katzenbach.

1970 Literacy requirements are banned for five years by the 1970 renewal of the Voting Rights Act. At the time, eighteen states still have a literacy requirement in place. In Oregon v. Mitchell, the Court upholds the ban on literacy tests, which is made permanent in 1975. Judge Hugo Black, writing the court's opinion, cited the "long history of the discriminatory use of literacy tests to disenfranchise voters on account of their race" as the reason for their decision.

1971 The 26th amendment sets the minimum voting age at 18.

1972 In Dunn v. Blumstein, the Supreme Court declares that lengthy residence requirements for voting in state and local elections is unconstitutional and suggests that 30 days is an ample period.

1995 The Federal "Motor Voter Law" takes effect, making it easier to register to vote.

Twenty-first Century

2003 Federal Voting Standards and Procedures Act requires states to streamline registration, voting, and other election procedures.

Read more: U.S. Voting Rights http://www.infoplease.com/timelines/voting.html#ixzz1t9imKT1p

What is gerrymander???

gerrymander

gerrymander (jer'ēmăn"dur, ger–) [key], in politics, rearrangement of voting districts so as to favor the party in power. The objective is to create as many districts as possible in areas of known support and to concentrate the opposition's strength into as few districts as possible. Extremely irregular boundary lines are sometimes necessary to obtain the results desired. The U.S. Supreme Court, however, has placed (1964) the vague limit of “compact districts of contiguous territory” on such apportionment schemes. The origin of the term, though by no means the origin of the practice, was in such an arrangement made by the Massachusetts Jeffersonians when Elbridge Gerry was governor.

See E. C. Griffith, The Rise and Development of the Gerrymander (1907, repr. 1974).

Read more: gerrymander — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0820654.html#ixzz1t9i8jPix

My Mother's Election Year... 1944 to 2012

As I brush up on my reading.......   Here are various authors, writers and source data... I googled ASK... When did Black gain the right to vote?

.........Local and state authorities never funded black education equally nor did African Americans have equal access to public accommodations. To make matters worse, after the 1890's:  nearly all southern blacks lost their right to vote through measures such as poll taxes, literacy tests, and the white primary. For the next fifty years racial segregation prevailed, reinforced by disfranchisement, official coercion, and vigilante terror. In addition, starting in 1913 with the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, who had close ties to the South, the federal government imposed racial segregation in government offices in Washington, D.C. (a policy that would not be reversed until the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s).

The bedrock of Jim Crow began to crack after World War II.

Only when the federal government took action after World War II in what has been called “the Second Reconstruction” did segregation fall, thereby highlighting the critical position Washington, D.C. played in preserving and then dismantling Jim Crow.

The war had exposed the horrors of Nazi racism....In 1948, President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order desegregating the armed forces, thus reversing a longstanding practice. In 1954, the Supreme Court justices in Brown v. the Board of Education reversed Plessy (1896) and decided that legally sanctioned racial segregation was inherently unequal and a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Nevertheless, the Brown ruling signaled only a first step, and it took another decade and a mass movement for civil rights for African Americans to tear down the racist edifices of segregation in the South.

Although the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) provided Blacks with suffrage, southern states enacted legislation, which used such things as the poll tax and literacy test to prohibit Blacks from actually capitalizing on their right to vote. Poll taxes survived until the Twenty-fourth Amendment (1964).......the poll tax and literacy tests geared toward restricting certain groups, the voting age remained 21 until 1971



Segregation was intended to debase African Americans, strip them of their dignity, reinforce their inequality, and maintain a submissive agricultural labor force.


In addition, Jim Crow can be viewed as a system of “disease control.” Segregation quarantined blacks to prevent them from infecting whites with the social and cultural impurities associated with “inferior” African Americans. White men established segregation to keep black men from having sexual relations with white women. Viewing miscegenation as the ultimate threat to the perpetuation of their superior racial stock, they often resorted to lynching black men for allegedly raping white women. In doing so, white men not only reinforced their control over blacks but also white women. They sought to maintain the virtue and chastity of their wives and daughters, reinforcing their patriarchal roles as husband, father, and ultimately guardian of their communities. However, it can be debated whether the real issue was sexual purity or power, for many white southern men both during slavery and Jim Crow actively pursued clandestine sexual relations with black women.

Blacks confronted Jim Crow to defeat white supremacy and obtain political power—the kind that could result in jobs, affordable housing, satisfactory health care, and evenhanded treatment by the police and the judicial system. Rather than erasing their pride in being black or expressing a desire to be like whites, African Americans gained an even greater respect for their race through participation in the Civil Rights Movement and their efforts to shatter Jim Crow.

Writing Anew... My Family Sipuel History

I intend to explore and update my family history in 2012.  I have decided to interview to my mom in order to record her experiences.  I think I'll do it geographically... and by her life stages. 

It's a part of her generational upbringing that mom didn't seem to question her parents and she finds it odd that I ask so many questions about our past.  

Longevity.....

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The word "longevity" is sometimes used as a synonym for "life expectancy" in demography - especially when it concerns someone or something lasting longer than expected

Evidence-based studies indicate that longevity is based on two major factors, genetics and lifestyle choices

Big Mama's Life in Pictures

She passed away in a Grandway Hospital.... 

Of note....the Headstone says Big mama's birthyear was 1890...   Although I believe the Census records of 1900 show her birthyear as 1885 --- a more reliable-truth fact.   Big Mama was so much younger than Dad Sipuel... Big really was known to have lied...... not revealing her real age!!!!  

That being said... her age at her time of death would have been 86 years old.

 Copies of her obit . . . .

41 years ago today  03-17-1971

Husband's Lewis Family Tree out of Chandler, OK

Her Smile is Awesome....

Martha Belle Smith Sipuel    (born 01-09-1895  died 03-17-1971)

Big Mama was about 53 years old with her adult daughter (Yr 1948)...... I wasn't born till 1954 when Big Mama was about 59 years old.... Thus I was just a seventeen year old teenager when she died in 1971.

Intendin to Check out.... Unknown-no-Longer Website !!!

This database is the latest step by the Virginia Historical Society (VHS) to increase access to its varied collections relating to Virginians of African descent. Since its founding in 1831, the VHS has collected unpublished manuscripts, a collection that now numbers more than 8 million processed items.

Within these documents are numerous accounts that collectively help tell the stories of African Americans who have lived in the state over the centuries. The database seeks to lift from the obscurity of unpublished historical records as much biographical detail as remains of the enslaved Virginians named in those documents. In some cases there may only be a name on a list; in others more details survive, including family relationships, occupations, and life dates.

Unknown No Longer does not contain names that may appear in published sources at the VHS or in unpublished sources located in repositories other than the VHS. On the other hand, those whose names appear in the database need not have lived their lives solely in Virginia, for our collections contain plantation records, for example, kept by Virginians who moved to other states, taking their slaves with them. In addition, if we know that an individual named in a post-Civil War document had been enslaved before 1865, his or her name will appear in the database.

It will take years to scour the millions of documents likely to contain the names of the enslaved and so Unknown No Longer has been launched as a work in progress. With the launch there are already more than 1,500 slave names in the database.

Editor’s Note: Also check out the VHS Guide to African American Manuscripts, http://www.vahistorical.org/aamcvhs/guide_intro.htm.

Tombstone Tuesday 2012

Does anybody else know....Raising Grown Kids is Hard

It's a prayer - warriors job!

Queen Helen....The Love of our Lives Xmas Day 2012

Family Secrets..... Things not talked about.....

An inspiring account of America at its worst-and Americans at their best-woven from the stories of Depression-era families who were helped by gifts from the author’s generous and secretive grandfather





 In A Secret Gift, he weaves these revelations seamlessly into a tapestry of Depression-era America, which will fascinate and inspire in equal measure.

I have a Flight Attendant in my family !!!

 The two muchkins below don't really count... just cute....  But I will have to write in the life story of Kandy Kirk, Tony Kirk and the mother of the pink munchkin... Lawry Kirk Shabazz !!

Week 48. Thanksgiving

Week 48. Thanksgiving. 


What was on your family’s Thanksgiving table? Do you serve the same dishes now as your family served in the past? This challenge runs from Saturday, November 26, 2011 through Friday, December 2, 2011

Fall Week 47

Week 47. Fall. 

What was fall like where and when you grew up? Describe not only the climate, but how the season influenced your activities, food choices, etc. This challenge runs from Saturday, November 19, 2011 through Friday, November 25, 2011

I'm counting down to 52 week December 2011

Madison Street COGIC...headed to Sunday services this fall of 2011!!!

Week #46 – Politics Week

 Politics. What are your childhood memories of politics? Were your parents active in politics? What political events and elections do you remember from your youth? This challenge runs from Saturday, November 12, 2011 through Friday, November 18, 2011. 

Countdown to Election Day 2011: 5 days
Countdown to Iowa caucuses: 61 days    ***  January 3 caucus in Iowa
Countdown to South Carolina primary: 79 days
Countdown to Florida primary: 89 days
Countdown to Nevada caucuses: 93 days
Countdown to Super Tuesday: 124 days

As usual, Mitt Romney, simply by standing there, looking presidential, and not making a fool of himself. He has to be the luckiest man on earth. Dozens, if not hundreds of polls have shown month after month that three-quarters of the Republican voters do not want him as their nominee. Yet every challenger who rises up to take the mantle of the Not-Romney implodes due to personal flaws. Donald Trump got lost in Birtherland somewhere. Michele Bachmann is crazy as a loon, Perry can't remember why he wants to be President,

“Earlier today Herman Cain rejected calls that he should withdraw from the race. He said, ‘It ain’t gonna happen!’ That’s what he said. Ironically, that’s what women say to him when he’d put his hand up their skirt.” –Jay Leno

and Cain has a Bill-Clinton-type problem (but without the charm that saved Clinton over and over).

                                    So who's left? Santorum has a Google problem and Ron Paul is way out of the mainstream.  Of  late there has been a boomlet for Newt Gingrich, but he comes with a lot of baggage. In particular, marrying his high school math teacher seems a bit odd, but is otherwise not a problem. The trouble is that he served divorce papers on her when she was in the hospital with cancer. Anyone can make a mistake after all. But then he got married to wife #2 during which period of marital bliss he led the attack on Bill Clinton for his dalliance with Monica Lewinsky. The problem here is that while attacking Clinton for cheating on his wife, Gingrich was cheating on wife #2 with a woman who would later become wife #3. Clearly Gingrich loves women and would never harass them, but if he rises to the top after Cain's fall, all this history is going to resurface. People are going to say: "We dumped Cain for WHAT?"

                                       The strangest thing about the whole campaign so far is that there actually is a candidate who is as good as Romney but without the flip-flopping problem that so plagues Romney: Jon Huntsman. He was a successful and popular governor, speaks fluent Chinese, and as ambassador to China is the only one of the Republican candidates with any foreign policy experience at all. But in the polls, he is lucky to register in the single digits so everyone ignores him. His problem is that the modern Republican Party has moved so far to the right that Huntsman, who governed pragmatically--much as Ronald Reagan did--now looks like a far leftist. His sins in the eyes of the Republican electorate are twofold: he worked for Obama as ambassador to China and he doesn't throw raw meat to the base on every issue. He could have deflected the first point by using John McCain's campaign slogan "Country First" saying he was called on to serve his country and he did not shirk his duty. He could try to blunt the second point by saying he can win the votes of the almighty independent voters. And he could certainly hammer Romney on his flip flopping, something Huntsman has never done. But the media, which once had a crush on him, has dropped him like a hot potato.

                                           So every day it looks more and more like Obama vs. Romney in Nov. 2012.

 Unless the voters of four small quirky states thrown sand in the gears of Romney's well-oiled machine.

Week #45 – High School

Week 45. High School. Describe your middle and/or high school. Was it a large or small student body? Is the school still in existence today? How has it changed since you went there? This challenge runs from Saturday, November 5, 2011 through Friday, November 11, 2011

Books to Own and Read.....

Franklin, Jimmie Lewis. The Blacks in Oklahoma : Newcomers to a New Land. Norman: U. Oklahoma Press, 1980.
—. Journey toward Hope: A History of Blacks in Oklahoma. Norman: U. Oklahoma Press, 1982.

Allen Toles' African American One-Room Schoolhouse | TravelOK.com - Oklahoma's Official Travel & Tourism Site

Allen Toles' African American One-Room Schoolhouse TravelOK.com - Oklahoma's Official Travel & Tourism Site

Loretta Y. Jackson     P.O. Box 2044  Chickasha, Oklahoma 73023   ©The Loretta Y. Jackson African American Historical Society  
315 E Ada Sipuel Ave, Chickasha, OK 73018   Phone: 405-224-5297 405-224-1953   Fax: 405-224-1935

The LYJ-AAHS Project consists of a museum site with two buildings. The first building is an early 20th Century, one room African American school and has been relocated to the museum site and has been restored. The second building will be a 2050 sq. ft spacious gallery and meeting-listening room. The museum and history center site will be located on Ada Lois Sipuel Avenue. This street was named in honor of Ada Lois Sipuel who, in 1946, filed a lawsuit because she was denied admission to the University of Oklahoma School of Law. After the Supreme Court's favorable decision, Sipuel, the first African American was admitted.



Purpose: The LYJ-AAHS Project will create a museum and history center that will be dedicated to the collection and exhibition of items pertaining to the heritage and culture of African Americans through the relocation and restoration of an early 20th Century one room school and by providing a Gallery of exhibits and various artifacts. This is to encourage the study and appreciation of the contributions of African Americans.

OU Honors / Inductee Ada Sipuel Fisher

Video.....it’s now posted on the OU Law website homepage.

Here is a direct link: http://jay.law.ou.edu/news/fisher.cfm

 Ada's Great Gramd-daughter Christiana Factory.... graduating Sr 2011

And her cool great-grandson.... Khalil Factory!!! 

Love my Family!!!

 Many times, I am remembering the accomplishments of 1948 on behalf of my own granddaughter.... as she will (Lord Willing...) .... she will live to witness 2048... 100 years of history!

Great-niece.... Anayah Shabazz

Genealogy Term: Daughter's Out

Daughtering Out
Q: I was reading an article and the author mentioned that a line "daughtered out." What does this term mean? -- Louise
A: When a line has only daughters, the line "daughter's out." This does not mean that you cannot claim descent. You descend just as directly from a daughter as you do from a son. The big difference when you descend from a daughter is that usually the surname will change.
When a daughter marries she generally takes the surname of her spouse. What this means is that those that descend from her no longer have the surname of the famous individual. And if she had only daughters, then there would be yet another surname thrown into the picture.
For instance, General William Tecumseh SHERMAN was born 8 Feb 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio. Depending on which side of the Mason-Dixon line you might be on, you may consider him a famous ancestor or a skeleton in your closet if you are basing it on his performance during the American Civil War. However, you cannot have the SHERMAN surname and be directly descended from him. While he had four sons, none of them had offspring. Two of his sons, William and Charles both died young. His son Tom became a Catholic priest. Other son Philemon never married and had apparently no issue. His descent is one of those that daughter's out.

Week 44. Elementary School. Describe your grammar/elementary school (or schools). Were they big or small? Are any of these schools still in existence today? If so, how have they changed since you went there? This challenge runs from Saturday, October 29, 2011 through Friday, Novemebr 4, 2011.

52 Week challenge 2011  
http://www.geneabloggers.com/tag/52-weeks-of-personal-genealogy-history/

Week 43. Worst School Subject. What was your worst or least favorite subject in school and why? This challenge runs from Saturday, October 22, 2011 through Friday, October 28, 2011.

Week 42. Favorite School Subject. What was your favorite subject in school and why? Was it also your best subject? This challenge runs from Saturday, October 15, 2011 through Friday, October 21, 2011.

Teachers Week 41. Teachers. Did you have a favorite teacher when you were growing up? What class(es) did this person teach and why did he/she make an impact on your life? This challenge runs from Saturday, October 8, 2011 through Friday, October 14, 2011.  

52 Weeks of Genealogy 2011

Week 40: Trouble. What happened when you got into trouble as a child? What was punishment like in your home? This challenge runs from Saturday, October 1, 2011 through Friday, October 7, 2011.

Week 39: Least Favorite Foods. What was your least favorite food from your childhood? Did your parents make you eat it anyway? Do you still dislike the same food today? How have your tastes changed since your youth?

Collectibles: Postcard of Ada Sipuel Fisher

Tips on Family Health History

Tips on collecting 

your family health history

Talk it up…

• Talk to a relative with whom you feel comfortable – find out what they know about aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. 
• You can also collect health information on close family members by talking at family gatherings.

Write it down...

• Write down health problems that you and your family members have had and the age the problems began.
• If someone has died, write down why they died and their age of death.

Pass it on…

• Share this information with other family members and with your doctor.

Knowing your family health history can save your life

Many families have a history of health conditions such as cancer, diabetes, or heart disease.  If there is a history of a particular condition in your family, you may be at greater risk of developing the condition.
The Virginia Department of Health has developed the Family Health History Form to make it easy for you to collect and record your family’s health information.   Simply download the form, print it out, and fill in the information.  We encourage families to complete a Family Health History on each family member and to share the information with their family physician

Week #38 – Hobbies Week 38: Hobbies. Did you have any hobbies as a child? Which ones? This challenge runs from Saturday, September 17, 2011 through Friday, September 23, 2011

Week #37 – Earliest Memory Week 37: Earliest Memory. What is your earliest memory? This challenge runs from Saturday, September 10, 2011 through Friday, September 16, 2011

Week #36 – Road Trips Week 36: Road Trips. Describe a family road trip from your childhood. Where did you go and why? Who was in the car? How did you pass the time? This challenge runs from Saturday, September 3, 2011 through Friday, September 9, 2011

Week 35: Weddings. Tell us about your wedding. You may also talk about your future wedding, the wedding of a relative or shape this question to fit your own life experience. This challenge runs from Saturday, August 27, 2011 through Friday, September 2, 2011

Smells Week 34

Smells. Describe any smells that take you back to childhood. These could be from meals, fragrant gardens, musty basements, or something entirely different. This challenge runs from Saturday, August 20, 2011 

Nicknames Week 33

Nicknames. What was your childhood nickname, and what was the meaning behind it? You can also discuss the nicknames of other family members, both past and present. This challenge runs from Saturday, August 13, 2011

Tombstone Tuesday

Geneabloggers Weekly questions 2011

Borrowed Quotes

Important Links for My Family Search

I came back across the Family Search along with my bkquiltin@yahoo.com login and password.   I'll keep this here on my blog postings...User Name: 5700kelley    Password: patches7128

Social Security Death Index

SSDI  is also linked here.    Now am I happy or what !! ??

Nothing is Forgotton....

My loved ones....