David S Poepoe
Banned
Just picked this magazine up recently at the bookstore. There cover article is The Man (or Woman) Who Would Be King by Megan Smolenyak Smlenyak. This deals with the WI of George Washington being king and who his successors would be up until present. There was a link to an online article about this earlier, but this is the full article. This particular subject appears to have been written about at least as early as 1908.
Four family trees are presented showing lineage via both male-only and male and female descent.
Also there is a short WI two page article. It appears that there was a poll of sorts via the Ancestry website that polled the impact four PODs:
1. If the G.I. Bill had not passed
2. If President Woodrow Wilson's veote of the Immigration Act of 1917 had remained in force.
3. If the first transcontinental railroad was built along the proposed southern route.
4. If penicillin were available to patients in 1890, instead of 1942.
There results were 1) 5%; 2)7%; 3)11% and 4)77%
The accompanying article on the counterfactuals and some postings:
http://www.ancestrymagazine.com/2008/07/features/counterfactual-family-history-2/
Four family trees are presented showing lineage via both male-only and male and female descent.
Also there is a short WI two page article. It appears that there was a poll of sorts via the Ancestry website that polled the impact four PODs:
1. If the G.I. Bill had not passed
2. If President Woodrow Wilson's veote of the Immigration Act of 1917 had remained in force.
3. If the first transcontinental railroad was built along the proposed southern route.
4. If penicillin were available to patients in 1890, instead of 1942.
There results were 1) 5%; 2)7%; 3)11% and 4)77%
The accompanying article on the counterfactuals and some postings:
http://www.ancestrymagazine.com/2008/07/features/counterfactual-family-history-2/