I have been on a quest to obtain the Thompson Journals complete library for over 15 years. Two of the original holders and writers have passed away, and there have only been paragraphs and pages of the journal used as source documentation for ancestors… more »
Category: "Personal"
Today’s blog represents the accumulation of why I began “MY POINT OF VIEW” after watching how today’s political culture both here in America and around the World have divided this country along ideologies and opposing views to the point of political… more »
Jeremiah Jack was among the first settlers on the Potomac River where they were forted. Jeremiah Jack had been born in Ireland in 1689 and married Anne Swaine from Yorkshire , England on July 17th, 1724 in the First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. I… more »
Now that the Trump administration is planning on locking up women and children indefinitely, are we going to be faced with the same situation as Guatanamo Bay. We still have prisoners (who has never been charged or found guilty of a crime) who has been… more »
Where do I begin? There has been so much going on during these past three years that nobody can put their finger on one specific agenda. I should begin with what kind of world are our children going to grow up in? I don’t know what the world will be… more »
These past few months there has been a lot of rhetoric regarding teaching LGBTQ history in our public schools. The religious right national agenda is to discriminate against a portion of the population based on their sexual orientation and deny their… more »
Well here we go again, two more shootings and a lot of rhetoric. It sounds like the same old story played over and over again, with the end results is nothing done. more »
As you know I have been working on the Jack Family Tree for the past twenty years. While I have had extensive results going up the line of pedigree, I still have a lot of work left on the current generation and their descendants. Since there are quite… more »
Concrete floors, cold and bare, soiled clothing, but no one cares. Little children, dirty diapers, the smell, the stench fills the air. No soap, no water, no toothbrush to share, jammed in cages, no room to spare. No blanket, no pillow, not even a bed,… more »
There use to be a time when Americans were so united. They didn’t resemble one another even if you painted them! They spoke all the languages in the world and formed an astonishing mixture of civilizations. Some of them were from nearly extinct… more »