I HAVE NEVER SMOKED CRACK; AND BOY OH BOY, IS ANCESTRY RESEARCH EVER A LOT OF FUN!!!!

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The Uffington Pioneer Cemetery -   Once a thriving community with stores, a hotel, saw mills and numerous homes and churches, the community of Uffington is an interesting spot in South Muskoka to visit with a number of the original pioneer homesteads still standing and a Pioneer Cemetery rich in the history of those original settlers to the area. (Photo By Fred Schulz)

NOTE FOR TODAY:
      I HAVE NEVER ONCE SMOKED CRACK. I'VE DONE SOME CRAZY STUFF, BUT NOT THAT.  WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT ON BRIEFLY, AS REGARDS THE SITUATION WITH TORONTO COUNCIL,  TODAY, IS TO OFFER THANKS FOR THE STELLAR WORK OF THE MEDIA TO GET THIS STORY OUT IN THE OPEN. THE MEDIA GETS POOPED ON A LOT, THESE DAYS, FOR CHASING DOWN STORIES, BUT IN THIS CASE, BY GOLLY, THEY WERE BANG ON......AND THEY ARE DOING US ALL A FAVOR BY EXPOSING WHAT NEEDS TO BE SCRUTINIZED, OF ELECTED OFFICIALS, AND THE BUSINESS THEY PURSUE SUPPOSEDLY IN OUR BEST INTERESTS.
    AS FOR THE SENATE DEBACLE, THANK GOODNESS FOR THE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS OUT THERE....WHO BROUGHT THIS STORY TO OUR ATTENTION.....FOR OUR SCRUTINY. I'M DELIGHTED THEY DID, AND WHAT HAS TURNED UP SINCE, SHOULD BE A REAL EYE-OPENER TO THE CANADIAN PUBLIC.
     I HAVE WRITTEN A LOT RECENTLY, ABOUT THE DECLINE OF THE ENQUIRING, INVESTIGATIVE, IN-YOUR-FACE PRESS, AND ITS TOOTHLESS BITE IN OUR REGION, WHICH YOU CAN ARCHIVE BACK TO READ. ALL OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS NEED TO KNOW A HUNGRY MEDIA IS MONITORING TOWN BUSINESS. IT'S WHAT WE HAVE COME TO DEPEND ON, TO DEFEND OUR STAKE IN DEMOCRACY, WHEN WE ARE DENIED ACCESS TO INFORMATION, WE BELIEVE SHOULD BE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN....BUT ISN'T. FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IS PART OF THE DEMOCRACY I HOLD NEAR AND DEAR. BET YOU DO AS WELL.
     IT'S GOING TO BE HARD TO GET AN AUDIENCE TODAY, IN LIGHT OF THE MOST RECENT POLITICAL NEWS IN THIS PROVINCE AND COUNTRY, ESPECIALLY WITH A NON CONTROVERSIAL DISCUSSION ON ANCESTRY......FOR FUN AND PROFIT. WE'LL GIVE IT A WHIRL ANYWAY.


KNOWING YOUR ANCESTRY IS MORE THAN A TREE OF NAMES

MEDICAL HISTORY SIGNIFICANT

     SUZANNE'S FATHER NEVER ONCE MENTIONED, THAT HE HAD A YOUNGER SISTER, WHO DIED AT ONLY ONE MONTH OF AGE. IT DIDN'T MEAN SHE GREW UP WITHOUT ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THE INFANT'S DEATH, BECAUSE SHE HEARD OTHER FAMILY STORIES, THAT ALLUDED TO THIS TRAGEDY, WHICH EVEN INCLUDED SPECULATION, THE CHILD HAD BEEN DROWNED AT THE FAMILY HOME ON LAKE ROSSEAU, IN WINDERMERE. SHE REMAINED PUZZLED WHY HER PARENTS HADN'T MADE IT COMMON KNOWLEDGE, SEEING AS IT HAD OCCURRED SO MANY DECADES EARLIER.
     WHAT SHE DID KNOW, WAS THAT THE STRIPP FAMILY (HER GRANDFATHER WAS SAM STRIPP), HAD BEEN LIVING TEMPORARILY IN AN APARTMENT IN TORONTO DURING THIS PARTICULAR TIME, DURING THE CRITICAL MONTHS OF THE SPANISH FLU EPIDEMIC, POST FIRST WORLD WAR. IT MAY HAVE BEEN A DIFFICULT PREGNANCY REQUIRING HOSPITAL CARE IN ADVANCE OF THE CHILD'S BIRTH. THERE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THE MEDICAL CARE REQUIRED, AT THAT TIME, IN THE DISTRICT OF MUSKOKA. WHEN THE CHILD WAS BORN, IT WAS LIKELY IN IMMEDIATE MEDICAL DISTRESS, NECESSITATING INTENSE CARE IN A LARGER HOSPITAL  FACILITY.
     IT WASN'T UNTIL FAIRLY RECENTLY, QUITE SOME TIME AFTER HER FATHER'S DEATH, EARLIER THIS NEW CENTURY, THAT SUZANNE WAS ABLE TO TRACK DOWN THE STRIPP FAMILY HISTORY MORE ACCURATELY, BASED ON PAPERS SHE FOUND WHEN CLEARING OUT THE ESTATE. WITH SOME SLEUTHING THROUGH PERSONAL DOCUMENTS AND INTENSE RESEARCH ONLINE, SHE WAS ABLE TO FIND THE DEATH CERTIFICATE OF THE CHILD, WHICH LISTED THE "CAUSE OF DEATH" AS  SOMEHOW, HAVING BEEN RELATED TO SPINA-BIFIDA. WHAT HAD BEEN SPECULATED, BY FAMILY MEMBERS AFTER THE FACT, AS THE CHILD'S DEMISE, RANGING FROM DROWNING TO BEING A YOUNG VICTIM OF THE SPANISH FLU OUTBREAK, WAS REFUTED AND CORRECTED FOR OUR UPDATED FAMILY RECORDS. WHAT SUZANNE HAS NEVER UNDERSTOOD, SINCE THE INFORMATION DISCOVERY, WAS WHY HER PARENTS HADN'T BOTHERED TO EXPLAIN THIS FAMILY TRAGEDY, WHICH OCCURRED EARLY IN THE 1900'S.  IT'S NOT ALL THAT UNCOMMON WHEN IT COMES RIGHT DOWN TO IT. IT OFTEN TAKES A DEATH OF A GRANDPARENT OR PARENT TO RELEASE THIS KIND OF INFORMATION. ARGUABLY, IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW MEDICAL CONDITIONS THAT HAVE EXISTED IN YOUR FAMILY, FROM AS FAR BACK AS IT CAN BE SECURED. WHILE TESTING CAN BE DONE TODAY, TO DETERMINE THE LIKELIHOOD OF PASSING ON AN HEREDITARY DISEASE, AND DETERMINING RISK FACTORS FOR MANY OTHER ILLNESSES, HAVING DOCUMENTED INFORMATION, NOT JUST SUSPICIONS, WOULD NATURALLY BE SIGNIFICANT INFORMATION TO PASS ON TO THE FAMILY DOCTOR.
     WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, MY MOTHER FREQUENTLY WOULD INTERJECT, AT STRANGE INTERVALS IN SOCIAL SITUATIONS, HOW I WOULD HAVE HAD AN OLDER BROTHER, IF SHE HADN'T MISCARRIED. I'VE COME TO APPRECIATE THIS NOW, AS A TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE THAT MERLE HAD NEVER GOT OVER; UNDERSTANDABLE OF COURSE. MY FATHER NEVER ONCE MENTIONED IT, AND WOULD PUSH OFF WITH A DIFFERENT VEIN OF CONVERSATION, IF MERLE BROUGHT IT UP, UNEXPECTEDLY,  DURING AN EVENING WITH APARTMENT-GUESTS. I ALWAYS THOUGHT ABOUT HOW NEAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN TO HAVE AN OLDER BROTHER, BECAUSE I DIDN'T REALLY LIKE BEING AN ONLY CHILD. I'VE LONG BELIEVED THAT MERLE HAD BEEN TOLD THAT SHE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO HAVE ANY OTHER CHILDREN AFTER ME, AND I DO REMEMBER LISTENING IN TO A CONVERSATION WITH A FRIEND, WHEN I WAS ABOUT TEN YEARS OLD, THAT THE DOCTOR HAD INFORMED HER AFTER THE MISCARRIAGE, THAT SHE MIGHT NEVER HAVE A SUCCESSFUL PREGNANCY. BUT AS I EXIST, WELL SIR, WE BEAT THE ODDS. IT STUCK WITH ME, RIGHT UP TO THE BIRTH OF BOTH OUR SONS; BECAUSE I COULDN'T HELP THINKING THAT I MIGHT HAVE BROUGHT SOMETHING IN MY FAMILY GENES, THAT WASN'T IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF A CHILD BEING BORN. MAYBE THERE WAS A ROGUE GENE THAT WOULD CAUSE SERIOUS ILLNESS AND A COMPLICATE A FULL PREGNANCY. IN SOME WAYS, ON TOP OF THIS, I CONFESS THAT IGNORANCE TO THE ISSUE OF SPINA-BIFIDA, AT THIS POINT, SAVED ME FROM EXCESSIVE WORRY. OF COURSE, IF WE HAD KNOWN THIS, IN ADVANCE OF GETTING STARTED ON OUR FAMILY, SUZANNE WOULD MOST DEFINITELY HAVE PURSUED THE MATTER WITH HER DOCTOR. WHAT WAS THE RISK FACTOR?
     WE DID HAVE TO POINT OUT TO THE DOCTOR, WHEN OUR BOYS WERE TO RECEIVE THEIR FIRST INNOCULATIONS, THAT A FAMILY MEMBER HAD EXPERIENCED A DEVESTATING REACTION TO A PARTICULAR CHILDHOOD VACCINE, THAT NEARLY PROVED FATAL. NOT THAT IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN TO US, BUT WE FELT BETTER AS YOUNG AND FRIGHTENED PARENTS, TO MAKE THIS INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.....SO THEY COULD WEIGH OVER THE RISK FACTOR, AND ADVISE US ACCORDINGLY. BOTH BOYS WERE GIVEN THE SHOTS AND THERE WAS NO REACTION. DID WE OVER REACT BASED ON FAMILY HISTORY? I LIKE TO THINK WE WERE JUST BEING CAUTIOUS, BUT MAYBE WE TOOK IT TOO FAR. THE SAME CAN BE SAID ABOUT ANY INFORMATION GARNERED FROM FAMILY OR MEDICAL RECORDS, WE HAVE ACCESS TO FROM OUR FAMILY TREE.
     THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH USING "CAUSE OF DEATH" INFORMATION, FROM DEATH CERTIFICATES, IS THAT NOT ALL THE MEDICAL (CORONER'S REPORTS) ASSESSMENTS WERE ACCURATE TO THE CIRCUMSTANCE OF DEMISE. I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF SUCH A CASE, THAT IS ALL TOO FAMILIAR WITH ME, AND THAT IS THE CORONER'S CONCLUSION, ABOUT THE DEATH OF CANADIAN LANDSCAPE PAINTER, TOM THOMSON. THE CORONER CONCLUDED THAT THOMSON HAD DIED THE RESULT OF ACCIDENTAL DROWNING, IN ALGONQUIN PARK'S CANOE LAKE, IN JULY 1917. DR. RAINEY, WHO CONDUCTED THE INQUEST INTO THE ARTIST'S DEATH, DID NOT HAVE THOMSON'S BODY TO EXAMINE, PRIOR TO COMMENCING THE PROCEEDINGS. THOMSON'S REMAINS HAD BEEN BURIED BEFORE RAINEY COULD GET TO THE SITE, FROM HIS OFFICE IN NORTH BAY. INSTEAD, HE ACCEPTED THE FINDINGS OF DR. HOWLAND, WHO HAD PERFORMED AN EXAMINATION OF THE BODY, SHORTLY AFTER IT HAD BEEN PULLED ASHORE BY TWO CANOE LAKE RESIDENTS. WITHOUT DOING A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION OF INJURIES TO THE BODY, THAT SHOULD HAVE RAISED SUSPICIONS, (SUCH AS THE DAMAGE TO A TEMPLE AREA OF THE SKULL), THE BOOK WAS CLOSED ON THE MATTER. THE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS "ACCIDENTAL DROWNING," AND THE CORONER, UPON EXAMINATION OF THE DETAILS OF DR. HOWLAND'S REPORT, HAD NO REASON TO RULE AGAINST. IT DIDN'T HELP THAT THOSE RESIDENTS IN THE ROOM, REFUSED TO SPEAK TO THE ISSUE, THAT THEY SUSPECTED THE ARTIST'S DEMISE WAS THE RESULT OF FOUL PLAY; NOT ACCIDENTAL DROWNING. IN A PERFECT WORLD, THE CORONER WOULD HAVE DEMANDED THOMSON'S REMAINS BE EXHUMED, AND THOSE IN ATTENDANCE, AT THE INQUEST, WOULD HAVE INTERVENED, AND CONFESSED THEIR CONCERNS ABOUT FOUL PLAY.....WHICH THEN WOULD HAVE NECESSITATED AN IMMEDIATE EXHUMATION AND PROPER AUTOPSY. TO THIS DAY, AND FOR MANY YEARS BEYOND, THERE WILL BE DOUBTS ABOUT HOW THOMSON MET HIS END. MOST THOMSON RESEARCHERS TODAY, BELIEVE THOMSON WAS MURDERED BY MOWAT HOTELIER, SHANNON FRASER, AND DUMPED FROM A ROWBOAT, WITH HIS WIFE'S ASSISTANCE, ANCHORED TO A ROCK, WITH FISHING LINE WRAPPED AROUND HIS ANKLE, WHICH WAS FOUND BY DR. HOWLAND UPON FIRST INSPECTION OF THE REMAINS. NOW THE WHOLE MATTER IS STEADFASTLY ANCHORED IN CANADIAN HISTORY. INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM, AT THIS TIME, WAS MORE CONCERNED ABOUT THE EVENTS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR, THAN WHETHER OR NOT TOM THOMSON, A BUDDING ARTIST, HAD BEEN MURDERED IN ALGONQUIN PARK.
     WHILE MOST THINK OF ANCESTRY AND FILLING OUT THE FAMILY TREE, AS A BASIC SEARCH FOR OUR BLOOD LINE BACK THROUGH HISTORY, THERE IS A LOT MORE TO DISCOVER, AS YOU FILTER DOWN THROUGH THE AGES. THERE ARE LOTS OF INTERESTING TIDBITS, WHICH MAY EVEN INVOLVE THE DISCOVERY OF NEWS CLIPPINGS RELATED TO A FAMILY MEMBER'S DEATH, SUCH AS THE CASE, FOR EXAMPLE, OF THE CITIZEN CASUALTIES OF THE HALIFAX EXPLOSION, OR THE SINKING OF THE SHIP, THE LUSITANIA. WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO GREAT, GREAT, GREAT UNCLE FESTER, AND YOU FIND OUT LATER THAT HE MET HIS DEMISE IN THE REBELLION OF UPPER OR LOWER CANADA, OR KILLED SIDE BY SIDE GENERAL BROCK, DURING THE WAR OF 1812, WOULD IT INTEREST YOU TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE SCENE AND EVENTS OF THE TIME. WHAT INEVITABLY HAPPENS, AS IT HAS TO US, MANY TIMES IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS, IS THAT WE HAVE BEEN MOTIVATED BY EACH PECULIAR DISCOVERY, TO RESEARCH NOT ONLY THE EVENT IN WHICH A RELATIVE WAS INVOLVED, SUCH AS A BATTLE, BUT THE WHOLE HISTORICAL PORTRAIT OF THIS TIME-PERIOD.
     HERE'S JUST  ONE EXAMPLE, FROM OUR FAMILY TREE, THAT IS REALLY KIND OF NEAT......AND YES, IT DID INVOLVE RUNNING THROUGH THE WOODS NAKED FOR TEN DAYS. I'VE NEVER LASTED THAT LONG, ON THE RUN, BUT NOW I KNOW WHERE THOSE STRANGE URGES COMES FROM. SUZANNE DISCOVERED MY ANCESTOR, WHO HAD FOUGHT IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION; BEEN CAPTURED BY NATIVE AMERICANS, IMPRISONED AND TORTURED. HE ESCAPED HIS CAPTORS, AND MANAGED TO EVADE RE-CAPTURE BY RUNNING THROUGH THE WOODS, UNTIL HE FOUND ALLIES TO GIVE HIM BACK SOME UNDERWEAR. THAT'S THE KIND OF METTLE I'M TALKING ABOUT. APPARENTLY JACOBUS VANDERVOORT, OF THE NEW YORK REGIMENT, SURVIVED RATHER WELL IN THE ENVIRONS, OF THE NEW YORK FORESTS, TO PRODUCE MORE INCLUSIONS ON THE FAMILY TREE YET TO COME. I'M NOT MAKING FUN OF THE MAN, DON'T GET ME WRONG. I'M SURPRISED THEY HAVEN'T MADE A MOVIE OF HIS EXPLOITS. BUT YES INDEED, I WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT JACOBUS VANDERVOORT, AND THE NEW YORK REGIMENT. I STILL HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THOSE WHO JOINED THE UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS, FOLLOWING THE WAR, COMING TO CANADA TO RE-SETTLE; AND THOSE KIN FOLK WHO FOUGHT AGAINST THE BRITISH FOR A FREE AMERICA. WE APPARENTLY MEMBERS OF OUR LARGE FAMILY NETWORK PLAYED BOTH SIDES OF THE FENCE AGAINST THE MIDDLE. I'M JUST THRILLED TO BE A FAMILY SPECK, IN THE HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLANDS, AS NEW YORK WAS ONCE KNOWN, AND THIS DOES PUT ME WITHIN RANGE OF THE INTERPRETATIONS AND CHARACTERIZATIONS WRITTEN BY WASHINGTON IRVING. NOW THAT REALLY IS PROVIDENTIAL AND I LOVE IT!
     UNTIL SUZANNE BEGAN HER PIVOTAL FAMILY RESEARCH, AFTER WE AFFORDED OURSELVES THE SERVICES OF ANCESTRY.CA, I HAD NO IDEA JUST HOW CULTURALLY MIXED I WAS; AS A PRETTY ORDINARY MUG WORKING AND LIVING HERE IN GRAVENHURST, ONTARIO. I REMEMBER WHEN SUZANNE SAID SHE HAD FOUND MY RELATIVES DATING BACK TO ABOUT 1000 A.D. FROM GERMANY AND THEN HOLLAND......INTER-MARRYING AS VERY EARLY IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICA. THEIR AMERICAN HERITAGE BEGINS IN THE MID 1600'S IN WHAT WAS TO BECOME THE NEW NETHERLANDS. I KNEW OF MY CONNECTION TO IRELAND AND ENGLAND ON MY FATHER'S SIDE, AND ENGLAND ON MY GRANDFATHER STANLEY JACKSON'S SIDE (MY MOTHER'S FATHER), BUT IT WAS VERY MULTI-CULTURAL, ON MY GRANDMOTHER BLANCHE'S SIDE. THE WOMAN AT THE END OF HER LIFE, WAS NO MORE THAN FIVE FEET TALL, BUT BOY DID SHE EVER REPRESENT THE MOST INTERESTING BRANCHES ON THAT FAMILY TREE,......YET MY MOTHER COULD NEVER REMEMBER TALKING WITH BLANCHE, ABOUT HER FAMILY, AT LEAST WITH THE GLEE WE NOW SHARE AMONGST OUR OWN OFFSPRING. THIS "BELONGING TO HISTORY THING" IS A PRETTY GOOD FEELING.
     WHEN WE BEGIN PUTTING THE FAMILY NETWORK TOGETHER, IT WAS WITH GREAT PRIDE THAT WE ADDED ALL OUR NEWEST DISCOVERIES, AND THIS INCLUDES THE FACT THAT SUZANNE'S SIDE OF THE FAMILY, BEGAN THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH MUSKOKA, AS SOME OF THE FIRST PIONEERS IN THE EARLY 1860'S. AND WHEN ONE OF THEIR FRIENDS NOW, CALLS OUR SONS "MUSKOKA-BILLIES," INSTEAD OF REACTING WITH DISDAIN, THEY NOD WITH GLOWING APPROVAL.....THAT IT'S BETTER THAN OKAY, TO BE BORN AND RAISED IN GOD'S COUNTRY.
     IT'S HARD TO EXPLAIN ALL THE INTRICACIES, PITFALLS AND JUNGLE THICKETS, OF THIS ANCESTRAL HUNT.  IT TURNS UP MANY  EXCITING FINDS, ALONG WITH SURPRISES, SOME THAT ARE QUITE SHOCKING. SUZANNE HAS BEEN TURNED BACK DOZENS OF TIMES, WHEN IT BECAME OBVIOUS SHE HAD MADE A MISTAKE, AND FOLLOWED SOMEONE OF THE SAME NAME, WHO DIDN'T SHARE OUR BLOOD-LINE, OR HAVE ANY RELEVANCE TO THE FAMILY TREE AS SPOUSES. OF COURSE, THERE ARE REALITIES THAT TURN UP, THAT WERE NEVER EXPECTED, SUCH AS ADOPTIONS. MANY FAMILIES FOR A WIDE VARIETY OF REASONS, DECIDED NEVER TO TELL THEIR CHILDREN THEY WERE ADOPTED, AND THIS WILL EVENTUALLY TURN UP, IN THE COURSE OF ANCESTRAL RESEARCH.....AND IT COULD WELL BE THE CASE, THAT IT INVOLVED RELATIVES MANY GENERATIONS REMOVED. WE'VE HAD IT HAPPEN IN SUZANNE'S FAMILY TREE, REQUIRING A MAJOR ADJUSTMENT TO LINEAGE AS A RESULT. WHAT SHE DISCOVERED WAS SERIOUSLY FLAWED BY A WELL INTENTIONED RESEARCHER, WHO HAD SIMPLY BEEN UNAWARE A CHILD HAD BEEN ADOPTED......BUT CARRIED ON WITH HUNDREDS OF EXTENSIONS BASED ON THIS ERROR IN BLOOD LINE.  WHAT IT BOILS DOWN TO, IS THAT THIS CHILD WHO WAS TAKEN IN, BY A SYMPATHETIC FAMILY IN CANADA, AFTER THE CHILD'S FATHER WAS KILLED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, (MOTHER FLED THE COUNTRY WITH HER CHILD, AND THEN DIED HERSELF) CAME TO TAKE THE FAMILY NAME. THIS FAMILY MEMBER THEN MARRIED INTO OUR CLAN, BUT HE WASN'T A NATURALLY BORN MEMBER OF THE FAMILY CLAIMING HE WAS. BIG PROBLEM. AN ERROR LIKE THIS IS CATASTROPHIC, BECAUSE LIKE TAKING A WRONG TURN AT THE CROSSROAD, THE ISSUE OF IT BEING WRONG MAY NEVER SURFACE AGAIN......THERE BEING NO  ACTUAL END OF THE ROAD. UNLESS SOMEONE LIKE SUZANNE POINTS THIS OUT, IT BECOMES AS THEY SAY, "ETCHED IN STONE," AS AN ERROR FOREVER. FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS, THEY WILL HAVE NO IDEA AN ERROR HAD BEEN MADE, AND THEREFORE, THEY WILL NEVER ACTUALLY KNOW IF THEY'RE ON THE FAMILY TREE, BY BLOOD, OR ON A BRANCH BY DEFAULT. THE LINGERING QUESTION, IS WHETHER SUZANNE DECIDES TO INTERVENE WITH THE AUTHOR AND FAMILY, TO CORRECT THE MATTER, AT LEAST FOR THAT PART OF THE FAMILY TREE. "IT WILL TAKE A HUGE AMOUNT OF BACK-TRACKING TO CORRECT THIS, AND INVALIDATE A LARGE PART OF THE PUBLISHED FAMILY HISTORY," (IN FANCY HARDCOVER) SHE ARGUES. BUT SHE HAS FIXED THIS FOR OUR OWN FAMILY TREE, JUST NOT THEIR SIDE.
      THANKS SO MUCH FOR VISITING WITH US TODAY. NOW YOU CAN GET BACK TO THE BIG NEWS OF THE DAY. BOY OH BOY, WHAT A DAY IT WAS IN POLITICAL HISTORY.