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[BettyO]

Supposedly when he was with Thompson's pharmacy, I think, Herold DID deliver medications to the White House.

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Quote:A word about ancestry.com, since it was mentioned. I think it's important to be careful with some of the information you find there in terms of not taking it as absolute truth. I've never used it personally, but I have a buddy who got into genealogy a couple of years ago and discovered that there was information that he would find on there that was very confusing and sometimes just wrong. I don't really remember the details, but it seems there was an issue where people would put information on there that they had gotten somewhere else, without first checking that information for accuracy, etc. They would basically just do a "cut and paste" type thing. I realize that for those of you who do research, it's standard procedure to take everything with a grain of salt until it can be verified to a certain point, just wanted to say that ancestry.com is no different. It being such a big name in the genealogy game, didn't want people to think it had immunity.

Right you are, Jonathan! However, Ancestry can lead to plenty of good things; i.e. the 1865 DC City Directory (even if it is downloadable only one page at a time!) I have also been in touch with descendants of the Branson family courtesy of Ancestry as well as other fine folk....so it does have it's perks if utilized properly.