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Searching for roots - Newsday.com |
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Aug 08, 2008 at 09:50 PM |
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Since her father died 13 years ago, Rosemarie Courbois has been on a nonstop mission to learn about her relatives -- dead or alive.
"My mother died when I was 7, and my father never really talked about her family," says the 64-year-old Patchogue resident.
A retired 911 operator, Courbois credited a co-worker's interest in genealogy with prompting her to delve into her own family's past -- a process that has included everything from surfing sites on the Web to traveling to Salt Lake City to peruse microfilm and microfiche at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Family History Library, a major repository of genealogical records.
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Obama has a distant family tie to northwest Arkansas |
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Aug 08, 2008 at 09:42 PM |
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Democrat Barack Obama has never campaigned in Arkansas, where voters have correctly picked every president since favoring Richard Nixon in 1972.
The Illinois senator had good reason to skip over the state in the Democratic Party primary in Arkansas. In that contest, he essentially competed against power couple Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton, Arkansas' world-famous son. Obama secured 26 percent of the primary vote; Hillary Clinton won 70 percent.
Still, recent genealogical research shows the presumed Democratic nominee for president can claim personal ties to the state. As traced by Madison County genealogist Joy Russell, Obama's ancestors lived in the Republican stronghold of northwest Arkansas in the 19th century.
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Aug 08, 2008 at 09:24 PM |
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If the phone rings, and it's a man trying to sell you an old newspaper clipping about some deceased family member or something odd that happened a long time ago at your house or business, don't be alarmed. It's only W.K. Jeffus, who lives in the past and makes a modest living there.
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