re: #2 Maddies Mom

Way O/T, sorry…
So I’m watching Letterman last Wednesday night. Ken Burns is talking about his new 7-years-in-the-making documentary about the Roosevelts. He says this…
“….Nobody had ever done it before. There’s lots on Teddy, lots on Franklin, lots on Eleanor, and nothing that’s showed it as the family drama that it is. These are 3 people, all born with the last name Roosevelt….”

Took me 1/2 a second - you?

re: #5 Ace-o-aces

I’m pretty sure Eleanor wasn’t born with the name Roosevelt.

re: #6 Maddies Mom

Carefully read the last sentence.

re: #9 Stanley Sea

I believe she was.

re: #10 Kid A

Eleanor wasn’t born a Roosevelt.

Yeah, she was:

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born at 56 West 37th Street in New York City, to socialites Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt (1860-1894) and Anna Rebecca Hall (1863-1892).[4] From an early age, she preferred to be called by her middle name (Eleanor). Through her father, she was a niece of President Theodore “T.R.” Roosevelt, Jr. (1858-1919). Through her mother, she was a niece of tennis champions Valentine Gill “Vallie” Hall III (1867-1934) and Edward Ludlow Hall (1872-1932). She acted in such an old-fashioned manner as a child that her mother nicknamed her “Granny”.[5]