I like to make very small quantities of any one soup at a time - I have a tendency to keep adding ingredients, ... like, "Oh, Let's See What This Tastes Like, With This Added To What *LITTLE* Is Left Of The Soup," so it often feels like I've eaten 25 quarts of the same soup -- consequently, I try to make only a SMALL amount of any one soup, (OR STEW, lol,) and I also try to FINISH it, LOL... My soups seem to go through Indefinite Reincarnations, LOL
"With his widespread ancestry in Colonial America, Obama 'is certainly related to millions of contemporary Americans -- perhaps even a significant percentage of the population,' Roberts wrote."
- - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Can Virginia add Obama to its leadership legacy?
A genealogical scholar says presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is a distant relative of both Robert E. Lee and President James Madison.
BY FRANK DELANO
....According to a venerable genealogical society, the Illinois senator and presumptive Democratic nominee for president is a distant cousin of both President James Madison, who was born in King George County in 1751, and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, who was born in 1807 at Stratford in Westmoreland County....
....A scholar of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston traced lots of Obama's maternal ancestors. The society announced earlier this year that Gary Boyd Roberts found that Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham of Kansas, had many ties to old families in Virginia and other Colonies.
One of those lines goes back to a 17th-century Englishman named Richard Eltonhead, the ancestor shared by Obama, Madison and Lee.... Consequently, Obama and James Madison are third cousins nine times removed, Roberts wrote....
...With his widespread ancestry in Colonial America, Obama "is certainly related to millions of contemporary Americans--perhaps even a significant percentage of the population," Roberts wrote.
Roberts said Obama's African ancestry can be traced for several generations. The village where Barack Obama Sr. was born is about 200 miles from Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, where anthropologists have discovered fossil remains of human ancestors dating back 2.5 million years. Therefore, on his father's side, Obama might be a cousin to everybody on Earth.
FULL ARTICLE AT:
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/062008/06212008/388337/printer_friendly
>>>24 quarts!!! Wow, that’s amazing.<<<
Not really... I have two big 24 quart stainless steel pots that I use when canning, as well as the old bluestone (enamel) canner and pressure canner.
One of the stainless pots has a really thick bottom with a copper insert(about 3/4” thick - I think it is copper inside, but can’t see it to find out) - that is the one I use for tomato sauces, chili, spaghetti sauce and other things that tend to stick.
When the power goes out for an extended time around here (like a big snow or ice storm - fortunately not too often) I have been known to make two pots of soup at a time and bake batches and batches of bread to help the neighbors. (and having a generator, we have lots of water for them too - as public water systems don’t come out our way)