Moving along

I did work on Pencombe yesterday extracting more information from Find My Past. It will be slow going though as I work my way through. The more that I do at this time individually the less that I have to do when I am creating the generational chart for the book. Well worth the time to just go slow and work out each one. 

Beautiful sunny day yesterday and more today I think although we are starting out at minus 2 degrees celsius.  We are predicted to have 15 degrees celsius as the high temperature and rain all weekend which will be good for the grass if it stays above zero! 

Continued listening to the "Untold Story of the Kingdom of Judah" and did find it very interesting looking at the work that I have been doing on both the Blake and Pencombe families. You accumulate the actual family information but constantly having a look at what was going on in these two areas in the time frame that you are looking at. My love of science blocked my mind from looking at the study of history and as it turns out science and history came together when I started to look at it (my cousin nudged me into that with his request for the Pincombe Profile for his History Book of Westminster Township). The entry of DNA into genealogical studies slow at the beginning but rapid by the mid teens of this 21st century so that  now work on a family is not complete without some DNA studies whether it be yDNA studies with the surname or mitochondrial studies along the strictly female line or the autosomal studies linking cousins. It is all valuable and was a joy for my husband as he proved all of his genealogical work that he had done during our entire marriage of 54.5 years. The study of populations is perhaps one of the most fascinating now I think in history especially as archaeological digs turn up ancient graveyards with yDNA or mtDNA still intact in the teeth or bones. What excitement to have in a study that appeared to be mostly this quiet library research to have it blossom out into an ability to actually scientifically trace a family or population back in time. 

Perhaps some lawn work today as I would like to finish across the part of the lawn that is at the road's edge. The spring flowers are still blooming in the grass so want them to have their day in the sun and for the bees to work. We must do our part to help the flora and fauna to exist in our world. Without them we do not exist. 

Teatime and Latin. The day moves forward.

The Untold Story of the Kingdom of Judah by Professor Oded Lipschits

What a magnificent find? Listening yesterday to the Introductory chapter A1 available on You-Tube.  How I love good lectures on the Old Testament. Thank you to Dr. Lipschits for translating his lectures from Hebrew and putting his lectures on YouTube. Much appreciated. Can we ever understand God and how He has related to man through the centuries? My opinions were formed by my grandfather and grandmother along with the priest at our church. My grandfather was High Anglican one would say and my grandmother (although raised in the Anglican Church in England) attended the Methodist and then United Church after Union in 1925. She had a different concept of how God moved in her life. I always preferred my Anglican concept of God as He just seemed more real to me. Perhaps it was the tiny bit of wine that we had as children to celebrate Christmas and Easter, I was confirmed at eleven years of age and went to communion regularly with my father first thing Sunday mornings and back to sing in the choir and/or teach Sunday School at the later service. Although I am pretty much a non-drinker I could not understand the strictness of the United Church as a child. Jesus had performed the miracle of water to wine for the wedding feast so why would wine be condemned I thought even as a young child. For me drinking wine is always in memory of the Sacrifice made by Jesus to save mankind. But then I also did not understand why people who were United Church drank because to me it was forbidden for them. Interesting really what one sees and learns as one passes through life.

Worked on Pencombe yesterday and revised my search pattern. I decided to work on the singleton surname Pencomb and have entered all instances into my one name study legacy file and started working on Pencombe (for all years). For Pencomb there were 53 entries and there are 866 for Pencombe so will continue with that today. I was getting too many repeats doing a twenty year search path. Then I will move to Pyncomb and Pyncombe and finally the largest groups Pincomb and Pincombe. I will also do Pinkham and some of the other smaller derivative surnames. Slowly the known lines are being created and the areas where the singletons are and gradually they are filling in but in distinct places which will make it easier to look at the land records. 

More work on the lawn today as I work backwards from the street. It will soon be dandelion time and I will let them bloom as we did last year. I will also start to fill in the garden beds at the front with fresh earth as the plants are now starting to grow. It would be nice to have the entire front yard completed by mid-May. Then a couple of weeks of moving earth in the wheelbarrow and we will have the main garden and side gardens planted at the back. Then it will be possible to work on the patches of lawn that need fresh earth and grass seed although the best growing time for grass is early May that can be next year but will use up the rest of the fresh earth there. I had thought that earth was needed along our garage side at the front but actually there is enough debris from the Yew Tree that the land is quite good there. Just need to do the parging when it is dried out. That is always a rather damp area with the large Yew Tree and other cedars on our neighbour's property. 

The day has begun and there is just a little light in the east. It is minus three degrees celsius and meant to be around 9 degrees celsius in the warmest part of the day. Tomorrow will be in the mid teens apparently and also sunny. Rain to come and so will continue seeding the front lawn and adding fresh earth. No digging; this is a great way to garden for sure! I am definitely too old to dig that much. 

Lovely walk yesterday about 1.5 km twice over to take the car to have the summer tires put on and then return. 

Next teatime and latin and then on to the day. .

Gaza

I would pray that there will soon be an end to the war in Gaza. It is interesting that the news at the moment, just when demonstrations are at their height on campuses, is all about possible war crimes. But who is committing the war crimes; I am left to contemplate that. Who gains from these news casts? The hostages have still not been released and it is suspected that most of them are dead. You need to have a lot of "news" that is against a country trying to get their hostages back. Fabricated no ideas on that but Hamas is capable of anything. We already saw that on the 7th of October last. Do not judge too quickly. There are likely individuals in Gaza who want Hamas gone and Hamas would certainly take this opportunity to eliminate them and make it look suspicious. There is no trust for Hamas because they break every cease fire. The United Nations should not be in a war zone. They come in when it is all done to create the peace. No trust for what Hamas says. Anyone living in Gaza who agrees with them likely does so out of fear or they think the opportunities improve for them; people can be shortsighted. At this moment in time Hamas has everything to lose and so they will do anything that helps them we saw that on the 7th of October last. Let us wait for the experts to come in when this is all over; when Hamas is gone from Gaza and the war is done. Interesting how these graves are being disturbed to make it much more difficult to see what actually happened. Hamas is desperate. They are about to lose their "cash cow." The experts in forensic studies are  not yet there. Nor can they be; this is a war zone created by Hamas on the 7th of October. 

I am a great believer in the United Nations but they have no place in a war zone. They should always be neutral until there is actual proof (and there may never be because the satanists get better and better at creating war to their advantage). We created the United Nations to be a place to talk, argue and bring forward recommendations for the better good of all peoples. If we had thought, way back then, that the United Nations would be involved in war then we would have created an army. One notes we did not do that. The world is held hostage whenever sick satanists start wars against countries or within. We just have to make sure that we provide as much help as possible to fight them off but mostly to keep the satanists corralled so that they do not break out. The warning has been issued; what is Russia gaining at the moment; a seasoned army that has been fighting for over two years. What have we gained, nothing really; we have given away a lot of military supplies to help but we are also producing more and getting ready for that eventual fight that always seems to lead almost to Armageddon. The satanists hope for internal discontent within our countries to support their evil ways. Why did Russia pick on Ukraine; because they knew they would fight and keep fighting so that they could build up a seasoned army. It does take a lot to convince a country to become evil. We are watching the process in Russia. Many Germans did not want to fight but fear was used to keep them in line; others were suckered in by promises. Hamas is another story; they are greedy after as much money as they can squeeze out of the United Nations and then keep the people of Gaza in some sort of a state of hatred so that at any time Hamas wanted to strike Israel they would willingly give up their lives; not protect their children and die all for the dream of taking the land of Israel back (which historically belongs to the Jewish people and the others who happily live there). When I watched the physicians (were they Hamas?) exposing those infants on a table I realized how sick these people are. One doesn't expose babies like that; they are always safer with their mother. After all my twin great great uncles were born at seven months gestation with a midwife and they were kept alive by the family until the sooty air of Birmingham took them that winter of 1894-5

Well the temperature did drop quickly and is nearly at zero and it is very windy. It doesn't look like snow though. Time will tell. 

This is a working day and it will be Pencombe and extracting data from Find My Past. Thus far it has proven interesting as it supports the existing trees that I have created and I have a few names that are at the moment not fitting into the trees. Once I find the areas that do not fit then I can look at the land records to see the path back perhaps. There is a long time before I complete this book for sure. I am not in a rush. I have basically organized everything so that it can pass to another if that happens. Lots of Pincombe/Pinkham researchers out there. Just write to my email and my daughter will send you everything. 

On to the day. Another day in God's world sadly torn apart by war that satanists create.  It is snowing; I do love the snow but it is very light and will certainly not come to anything!

 

 

And we are awaiting possible snow

 It is five degrees celsius and sunny - a lovely April day and it was supposed to rain. Yesterday I did another square metre of lawn filling in with fresh earth and new seed. It is really too cold to water it as I do not want to freeze the seeds in ice since it is cold over night but today is supposed to be very sunny so we will see. I can just reseed not a problem but thought I might as well try to work on the grass at the street edge as it suffers most during the winter. 

Basement cleaning all accomplished and this was a move everything week so all the dust gone supposedly. I would need to clear out the cabinets to really be dust free but it is not too bad for this 78.5 year old to accomplish. 

I decided another day of rest on the eyes would be good. Part of that was I spotted the Movie Schindler's List on Netflix and decided to watch that after doing the lawn. It is just over three hours long and I watched it a while ago; can not remember when now. It is a reminder of the wickedness of the Nazi regime and how one man (part of that regime as a member of the Nazi party) whose heart found a reason to save over one thousand Jewish men, women and children by owning a factory which employed some of the Jewish people and he was able to declare them all essential workers. Even at the last the order had been given for the Nazi soldiers who were in attendance at the factory (it was a sort of concentration camp I think) to murder all of these Jewish people but Oskar Schindler spoke to them and said go home, we have lost, let these people live. And they listened and went home. The closing scene includes the hanging of Oskar when he was caught by the allies and hung (he actually had a paper which all of the Jewish people that he saved had signed but one suspects that he did not give that to the allies). At the very end all of the people still surviving walked past his grave and placed a stone on the grave - it was extremely meaningful in these times that one person stood against the Nazis and helped. He wasn't the only one as many went to their deaths in the concentration camps for trying to stop Hitler. Hitler was evil and what we are seeing in the world now is that same evil - Putin and his enablers, Iran and their sycophants Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis (and any others that I do not know). It is also why those who fought for the Nazis must carry that to their grave; we have forgiven and forgotten but there is no celebration of Nazis. They were inhuman, cruel and barbaric; what happened on the 7th of October last was this same kind of inhumane treatment of a people who have suffered long enough. It is time for an end to threats against the Jewish people. Until that happens there can not be peace in our world. We must always be ready; arm for war but look for peace. They have preserved and given to the world the very word of God saved through the centuries so that we could, in this century, read and appreciate the Word (the word that became flesh and dwelt amongst us we Christians believe), the Word that brought the Israelis back to their homeland and the Word that tells us that we must love God with all our heart, our soul, our mind and our strength and love our neighbour as ourself. Then we can have peace. 

Again I can not understand why the Palestinians in North America did not bring thousands and thousands of those children (2 to 8 years of age) to safety here. They required just a DNA test so they could be returned to their relatives at the end of this war; so many could have come and had a life like the children of England during the Second World War who came here to Canada.  

The rest of the house to be cleaned today and I begin very soon,. My Latin lesson is already completed and my tea enjoyed.

Sunny and minus 2 degrees celsius

 Unpredictable April is with us; snow one day and hot sun the next or pouring rain, one just never knows what April will bring. If I have time today I will do another section of the front of the lawn to see if I can get it growing before the truck becomes a permanent fixture in front of my house for the summer. Sad for the people across the road as they try to get their two cars out of the laneway having to make this very tight turn out. They park their two vehicles side by side; very considerate of them. After all the side of the road in a residential area that permits parking expects just that, parking for short periods not lengthy ones. The owners of the big truck could make a double laneway and park their vehicles side by side, or have one in the garage and the other off to the side so you can get in and out easily. My rant for the day. It wouldn't have happened but the big truck was there when I was trying to add garden soil to my lawn and then seed it and it is very awkward to do that with a big truck in the way plus his front wheel was on my lawn!

Statistics and they are really important especially down the road. For instance, we need to know how many male babies and how many female babies are born; it isn't because we are fixated on anything we just need to know those statistics down the road. Why anyone would want to disturb their endocrine system to satisfy personal feelings is beyond me really; no matter what you do or at what time you do it you will be sterile if you interfere with the endocrine development. You will have no choices if you interfere in the endocrine development. Who cares if you think you are other than what you are except you of course. But does it really matter; does it matter if you think or act more like a boy or girl; you are a person; being a person is what matters! Seeing that it could bankrupt the health care system means a lot to me; it isn't fair to people having heart attacks, needing bypass surgery, broken legs that need mending, fixing little items that children need in their lives like cleft palate for them to have it said to them sorry this gender affirming person needs to have surgery or needs drugs and it is their turn. Anyway down the road a country needs on occasion to figure out their birth rate and their anticipated birth rate and why it is falling or rising in a way that is not anticipated. If we do not sex babies when they are born as male or female then we do not have those statistics and it is like living in a dark age and why do we get educated if we are not going to use that ability? Very few babies are born that you can not immediately say they are male or female - it is very rare. Again, I do not understand why people would shorten their life span by interfering with their God-given gender. For those rare children born with undetermined sex then by all means help them! Otherwise leave them alone and let them be children; let them imagine, let them dream but keep their minds squarely on the drawbacks of anything that is done to a perfectly operating system. The mind is capable of accepting many things and we are a person first of all. Mine you I have no idea if it actually would affect your longevity but one does wonder; there aren't any statistics and not sure we really need them. Another rant for the day. It must be cleaning day and it is; the basement today. 

Okay, I did not do any work yesterday - I have decided to consider my book writing as unpaid work since I am retired and do not want to do any bookkeeping for a business - besides the clientele will be rather small and all around the world likely - much too confusing. It was a beautiful Sunday; I scarcely looked out the window. I watched TV for a bit and there is an ambulance going through the red light - heart attack maybe but back to my day. I did all my exercises and at 78.5 that is an accomplishment and I rate it as such. On to the day. 

Teatime and Latin as always.