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Simon Peter versus Simon the Sorcerer

E.L. Martin. It documents the true history of the Samaritans, the meaning of the word "peter" in the ancient world and the "church" that was established at Rome by Simon the Sorcerer. "But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.

And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries. Right from the very beginning, Satan had his counterfeit "messiah" operating right in the true Messiah's backyard. Simon believed and was baptized. From Simon Magus we get the word simony which means to buy a religious office with money.

After his encounter with St. As in the case of Patrick and Palladius, the arch-fiend Satan took advantage of the similarities of the names to supplant one with the other. Lindsey Williams. The Difference between Aliens, Demons and Fallen Angels. The Difference Between Fallen Angels, Demons, Aliens, Jedi, and the Watchers.

The Difference between Aliens, Demons and Fallen Angels

Who Do You Think You Are? Season 1, Episode 5 – Brooke Shields. Posted by Ancestry.com on April 2, 2010 in Uncategorized Brooke Shields always felt her parents were from separate worlds, but when she dug into her family history on Who Do You Think You Are?

Who Do You Think You Are? Season 1, Episode 5 – Brooke Shields

, she realized how true this really was. Her mother was from a working-class New Jersey household, and her father’s family stemmed from European aristocracy. Researching the pair, however, gave Brooke better insight into the lives that influenced each of them and that ultimately made Brooke the person she is today. Who Do You Think You Are? Season 1, Episode 1 – Sarah Jessica Parker. Posted by Ancestry.com on March 5, 2010 in Uncategorized Turns out history knows a lot about Sarah Jessica Parker’s family tree.

Who Do You Think You Are? Season 1, Episode 1 – Sarah Jessica Parker

She’s a gold miner’s great-great-great-great-granddaughter with links to an accused witch. In case you missed any of the details of where Sarah Jessica went and what she saw, here they are, in a very small nutshell: Sarah Jessica starts her journey by talking to her mom about the Hodge family – a line of her family that Sarah Jessica never heard of before. Chelsea Handler Makes Peace With Her Grandfather’s Nazi Past. Posted by Ancestry.com on August 9, 2013 in Uncategorized …and Finds a Closer Connection to Her Heritage.

Chelsea Handler Makes Peace With Her Grandfather’s Nazi Past

Born to a Jewish father and German mother, comedienne Chelsea Handler has always embraced her Jewish side. But she also has fond memories of her maternal grandfather, Karl Stöker, “a strong and loving man.” Although he never talked about his experiences, she knows Karl served in the German army in WWII — Chelsea and her siblings even joked that he had been a Nazi. But she’s afraid it might actually be true. Now is her chance to find out: What kind of allegiance did her grandfather have to the Nazi party?

Her brother’s prior family research has yielded three fascinating documents to get her started: Karl’s birth certificate, a 1966 memoir written by their grandmother and a small green booklet with “Leistungsbuch” and a swastika on the cover that belonged to Karl. Cindy Crawford: Turning 1,000 Hours of Research into One Hour of Television. Posted by Ancestry.com on August 28, 2013 in Uncategorized How do you get from Cindy Crawford back to Charlemagne in one hour?

Cindy Crawford: Turning 1,000 Hours of Research into One Hour of Television

Things might happen fast on television, but behind the scenes, it took months to research Cindy’s tree. Only the records that were essential stepping stones could be included in her story, and a few important steps we took along the way didn’t make the final cut. Like the first step, which is always to find out what the family knows already. George Clooney’s Honest Family Connection. Posted by Ancestry.com on November 7, 2012 in Uncategorized This November, as movie-goers prepare to see Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” on the big screen, experts from Ancestry.com have uncovered a family connection between Abraham Lincoln and actor George Clooney.

George Clooney’s Honest Family Connection

In conjunction with the movie’s release, Ancestry.com is also making its most significant Lincoln-related records available in one place for free viewing. After researching more than three centuries of Abraham Lincoln’s family tree, Ancestry.com family historians have revealed a Lincoln family secret: famous actor George Clooney is related to the former president. The family bloodline for both notable figures links to Lincoln’s maternal grandmother Lucy Hanks. Due to this common ancestor, Clooney is Lincoln’s half-first cousin five times removed. Lincoln enthusiasts and movie fans can discover a whole new side of the former president and his family, with information spanning the 1700s through the early 1900s. Using DNA To Trace Michelle Obama’s Past. Posted by mfiske on September 12, 2012 in ancestrydna First Lady Michelle Obama always suspected that she had white ancestors.

Using DNA To Trace Michelle Obama’s Past

But she had no idea who they were. With DNA testing and research, I was able to solve that mystery and finally identify the white forbears who had remained hidden in her family tree for more than a century. All across the country, growing numbers of people are turning to DNA testing as a tool to help unlock the secrets of their roots, using companies such as ancestry.com, among others. When I started researching my new book, “American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama,’’ I pored over historical documents that I found in local archives, courthouses and libraries as well as records that I found online on ancestry.com and other state and local databases. I suspected that Mrs. The results showed that the two families were related. Actress Vanessa Williams Explains How DNA Powers Her Family Tree. Ancestry.com | 05/14/2013 The following appeared in the Los Angeles Times , April 27, 2013. Written by Jessica P. Ogilvie. The world within Vanessa Williams 5 QUESTIONS Most of us are curious about our family lineage.

How did you become interested in finding out about your lineage? I’ve always been interested, but I was introduced to Ancestry.com [one of the websites that help people research their family backgrounds] before I even did a show called “Who Do You Think You Are,” so I signed up as a member to document my own family tree, and my DNA analysis was done as a part of doing the show. We ended up doing two stories on my father’s side. President Obama Descends from America’s First Slave. Posted by Ancestry.com on October 8, 2012 in Uncategorized.

President Obama Descends from America’s First Slave