HENRY Z. JONES, Actor, Singer, and Genealogist, on ELVIS PRESLEY

This is from PSYCHIC ROOTS, Serendipity and Intuition in Genealogy, by Henry Z. Jones, C 1993, and published by Genealogical Publishing House in Baltimore.

This book is about how researchers sometimes find or get information needed during a roots quest through paranormal means, such as dreams, visions, hunches, odd coincidences, synchronicity, and serendipity.

Henry was an actor in Hollywood for some time - his first career - and was on Tennessee Ernie Ford's show. He says that he was an Elvis Fan and he and his partner tried to style their voices on Elvis for some time. They were signed by the same man who produced Elvis in his RCA Victor years, Steve Sholes. Henry got involved in intense research on the Palantine German's, Germans who went to Ireland and then the United States, and is now a Fellow of the American Genealogical Society. One of the families he research is the Pressler's, who are Elvis' ancestors (and the origin of his family name)! Henry says that several of Elvis' key band members played on their sessions and his very first role was on MGM's "Girl Happy," which starred Elvis. He was thrilled and Elvis "Couldn't have been nicer to me."

So here is what happened to Henry while he was watching - in grief - when CBS- Television showed the last filmed concert of Elvis', which had occurred October 3, 1977.

"As I sat back in my chair, stressed out but determined somehow to watch Elvis' final appearances, I felt an unknown energy almost an electricity, pulsing throughout my living room. It was so strong, I could almost touch it. Then, at the very mini second the show began, a large framed picture of my daughter, hanging on the wall opposite my chair, crashed to the floor with a gigantic boom. In all my years of living in that house no picture had ever fallen and none ever did again."