Engaging Life with Courage and Intelligence
There is an interesting correlation between the familial roots of U.S. Presidents and their behavior as presidents. Even in the beginning, the families of the first six presidents had been in colonial America for several generations. It is probably no coincidence that the rule is that American presidents have to be natural-born citizens. Of course,…
A Brief History of Family X The following is the final chapter in a series about the evolution of the famed family X. It is hard to put lipstick on a pig. Errol X and Maye Haldeman’s marriage dissolved after nine tumultuous years. Maye was high-spirited, physically attractive, and intelligent. Errol was her equal, but…
A Brief History of Family X The following is a chapter in a series about the evolution of the famed family X. John Elon Haldeman was an intelligent and educated man who relocated his young family from Minnesota to Saskatchewan. Although his son Joshua was drawn back to Davenport, Iowa, to attend the world’s first…
A Brief History of Family X The following is a chapter in a series about the evolution of the famed family X. Continuing from the last chapter, Maye Haldeman married into the family X in 1970 in South Africa. Maye’s roots lie in Switzerland in the Mennonite faith. Her Haldeman family was forced out of…
A Brief History of Family X The following is a chapter in a series about the evolution of the famed family X. Errol Graham X was born to Walter X and Cora Amelia Robinson X on May 25, 1946, in Pretoria, South Africa. His childhood was difficult due to his parents’ marital problems. His mother…
A Brief History of Family X The following is a chapter in a series about the evolution of the famed family X. Walter X never knew his biological father, Harry X, who died one year after Walter’s birth in Pretoria in 1916. Since Lucy Champion and Harry were divorced shortly before Harry’s death, we cannot…
I’m a little embarrassed about my birthday. However, there is a positive and a negative side to being a Gemini… I am a proud Gemini but… Donald Trump is a Gemini too. On the other hand, so were…John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Queen Victoria, Paul McCartney, Judy Garland, Bob Dylan, Morgan Freeman, Richard Wagner, and…
A Brief History of Family X The following is a chapter in a series about the evolution of family X. This story begins with a young lad from a poor English background, around 15 years old. He was the son of an unwed mother in a poor agricultural area in Suffolk County at the bottom…
To prove Christians, particularly Catholics, are creatures of the New Testament, the new Pope has proven to be exempt from some of the important constraints of the Old Testament. Numbers 14:18 says: “The Lord is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of…
When my genealogical research began, my first inclination was to focus on my Y chromosome and surname. While researching the arrival of my 7th great-grandfather from the Spanish Netherlands, I noticed his wife’s maiden name was Rapalje. I found the name interesting but was more interested in my direct male ancestor. Years later, I returned…