My Point of View

In January 2020, the South Dakota House and Senate introduced bills to outlaw legal marriage equality, permanently legalize forced conversion therapy, ban changed to legal gender markers and block any passage of LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections.… more »

THIS BLOG IS MY OPINION AND MINE ONLY, IT IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AT A NEWS ARTICLE. IT BASED ON WHAT I HAVE RESEARCHED AND HAVE FORMED MY OWN OPINION. There has been a lot of changes and misgivings this year with fake news, alternative facts, brother… more »

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 »

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 »