Elijah is another link between modern Judaism and modern Christianity and Islam

Anti-semitism must disappear from Canada and all of our world. The Jewish people have suffered more than enough in all these centuries. I do have sympathy for the children of Gaza not yet tainted by the hatred of their adults towards Israel. These adults of Gaza (Hamas are Palestinians as far as I can tell if not then why are they in Gaza) attacked Israel, murdered children, women and men just under three years ago. It was ruthless, planned and known to the adults of Gaza and even Palestinians around the world. It was disgusting; it remains a most disgusting event. The children of Israel, surrounded by Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Iran their supporter and leader, have a right to sleep at night without fear. That is still not possible for them nearly three years later. No one helped the Israelis on that early morning terror which erupted on the quiet kibbutzs and a Music Festival full of young adults really children themselves. Murder was everywhere and the cheering in Canada by Palestinians that we welcomed as immigrants was sick and unacceptable. Hamas continued to threaten and indeed bomb Israel in the days and weeks following (and Palestinians marched here which was disgusting saying they would do that again and again trying to force the Israelis to leave their homeland they have lived in for thousands of years). The Hezbollah in Lebanon attacked from the other side with bombs. The right of Israel is the Bible itself detailing where the Israelis lived from the time of Abraham. No one else has such an historical record in our times. For peace to come in Gaza; the people of Gaza must be peaceful. That so many Palestinians including children have died is sad but they attacked Israel and Israel has a right to defend itself. God said "Love they neighbour as thyself."

Although re-reading the history of the people of Israel (the descendants of Jacob (renamed Israel by God) son of Isaac son of Abraham) in the Bible was a decision that I made looking for why I think that God said we would have peace on our earth if we but followed His commandments - love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength and love our neighbour as ourself. At the same time as I read the chapters I am also listening to YouTube productions that review each book of the Bible. But I am reading word for word and not interpreting anything based on what I know happens later. I think modern religious leaders should not insert into these early readings assumptions that are not there in print; I think it weakens the message that is in the Old Testament. God seems to change somewhat softening towards the plight of the Israeli people through the years from slavery in Egypt to the present I am now reading. He recognizes in King David a faithfulness although he did sin with the adultery and requested murder of Uriah the husband of the woman with whom David had adultery but he paid dearly for that sin. God still demands that only He is God not baal or any other other fake gods and that that must be recognized at all times.That is still true. I have reached the introduction of Elijah; Elijah is important in Jewish faith, in Christian faith and in the Muslim faith (I learned that from the Muslim students I worked with at the hospital). Back to reading 2 Kings and Elijah is taken up to Heaven in a whirlwind and Elisha his faithful student takes up the mantle of Elijah.

Yesterday the cleaning of the main floor was accomplished and today it is the basement. In the evening we went for a walk and kayak on the beach and in the river. It was a lovely evening and the beach was packed. The rains had created a small pond on the back beach where the gulls had settled for the evening. 

I also worked on the matches and I now have over 50 new matches. But there are fewer and fewer new ones as my criteria eliminates more and more. I suspect I will be done by the end of the week and starting to file the new matches into my database. 

Today is collection day and there are two full bags of weeds/cuttings, the black bin and the green bin at the curb waiting for the collection trucks which have arrived. They come much earlier now so my frozen containers in the green bin stay frozen which is nice as I put them out in the morning on purpose. 

More  work on the matches today in between cleaning. It is a lovely day in God's world but we must try harder to protect this world which He has given to us. We were charged with its well being and we are not protecting the things that we can very well at this time. Money isn't meant to be hoarded by the few but rather to support this world that is God's gift to mankind. 

Solitaire puzzles to do.  

 

 

 

 

Continuing 2 Kings and Elijah is introduced

The history of Israel continues in 1 Kings and the peoples of Israel and their kings continue to stray to the right and the left not following the commandments of God but rather those of the gods of the nations around them. Elijah has now entered the story but again I am reading word by word without thinking of what I know comes in the later books of the Bible. I completed 1 Kings and will begin 2 Kings tomorrow. God's punishment continues as He waits for the obedience which he has commanded. We do see elements of it in 1 Kings where obedience to God comes before self on the part of some of the leaders. Elijah is a man of God and very important. 

Cleaning day top floor all accomplished and today it is the main floor and I shall start in a while. Good rain thus far over the past couple of weeks and more to come this week. Unfortunately it may be accompanied by lightning but hopefully the rain will be heavy and put out wild fire started by lightning. Into August now with day 4 and the cooling trend will soon make itself felt although we can have warm days in September.  

More work on the matches and I have completed the first eight pages and will probably look at the next three pages which will take me most of this week probably and then I can enter the new material into my database and September should see me putting more time into the Generational Blake Chart and eventually the Pincombe Chart. I hope to finish by the end of 2028 and look to be on a good schedule. Time will tell. I still have the corrections to the Index of the Siderfin Book on the backplate and will not forget to do that eventually. It may get slotted in as a something different to do as I move along. I also want to continue phasing Edward's grandparents but that is still pretty much on the back burner. Although I have the records of a dozen of his close cousins to help with that. It is hard to believe that he did all of that work thirteen years ago now collecting up the data of his cousins from DNA testing. Only a couple did not do the testing but a dozen is a lot of cousins for sure and on all sides of the family. 

I still did not locate the Allen pictures. I thought they were in the archival box marked Allen but that turned out to be incorrect. I have since found some copies of those originals but not the originals. But there are still about ten boxes of his research to go through. 

I will begin the envelopes in a couple of weeks with the pictures of Edward's birth family namely pictures of his brother, wife, and two children and their children that Edward took through the years beginning in 1961. Since Edward and his brother generally appeared together in pictures I will keep all of those for the early pages of the first binder.  I hope to complete this task in the Fall and send them in December to Edward's nieces. 

At that point I can move on to the collections of information that Edward scanned or photographed and burn them to DVDs and I still have to write to the OGS Ottawa Branch Library to see if they are interested in setting up a Fonds for his research. The section that I sent to Chilliwack Archives dealt with British Columbia Kipp and the material that E Harvey Kipp sent to and brought to Edward back in the 1970s. It seemed appropriate to return it to this area particularly after the correspondence between the Archivist and myself. 

Soon time to start the cleaning and Solitaire puzzles to do.  

 

Solomon does not obey the rules of God and disaster comes

 Chapters 10 to 15 in 1 Kings tells of Solomon being very wise and well received in the world but he does not follow the word of God as he worships foreign gods following his wives' religions. God decides to split out the tribes leaving just one tribe in Judah to the descendant of Solomon namely Rehoboam. Ten tribes of Israel would have Jeroboam as their King but he did not follow God's laws either. Still one reads and understands that faithfulness to God must be 100% but God will still listen but one must obey. David is referred to a great deal throughout 1 Kings because he obeyed in all things but one his adultery with Bathsheba. This line of David continues to be important throughout the chapters read today. I am reading chapter by chapter and not applying what I know will come so I do not see what some religious scholars see. What I do think is that God has found a human that suited Him in David and He holds up David as an example. He sinned, he paid for that sin in a huge way and returned to absolute obedience to God. Within David were the elements of humanity that God wanted but He doesn't say why. I think that is what I have gained from reading through these chapters. God continues to listen but obedience is the only way to God. 

We worked on the indexes for the picture binders yesterday for about two hours. This method will take hours and hours and one wonders at its value since an index already exists in junction with files that lead to the actual images all scanned. We decided to not revise the index down to the six to eight albums that are desired out of this redo to the fourty binders. It was a good decision. The first step will be to extract all of the images of my husband's birth family from the binders and send them to his two nieces. The second step is to look at the idea that a Fonds could be created with all the scanning of various items that Edward did could be burned to DVDs along with his handwritten research note books and other material that fit into a Fonds of his collections that deal with his various family lines (perhaps in the OGS Library of the Ottawa Branch). I will write about that today. I will also ask them if they would like a set of year books that he has for Western University. We have a duplicate set of our years since we both graduated from Western. The remainder of that set of books he collected through the years for his uncle's graduation year and a number of other books for various reasons. The third collection separation will be to make up a set of six to eight binders of our family. All of my pictures are electronic as my younger sister holds the originals which works very well for me but there are a number of Edward's pictures from childhood 1944 to the 1960s which will provide an interesting look into his life as a child and then our 54.5 year marriage with just 1960s  to 2001 in actual photographs as the time from 2001 to 2021 when Edward passed away is all electronic. These will be put onto small drives. The fourth collection is a set of collections really of our trips here and there and they will be only electronic. There are a couple of very interesting ones that we will publish under Creative Commons license in memory of Edward which were primarily taken by him on our trips into Northern Ontario for the most part in the first seven years of our marriage. So really happy to have worked that through and I will begin the work probably in early September along with writing my books. 

Managed a few more DNA matches and I think I still have perhaps three or four more pages to go through over the next couple of weeks. Again I am only collecting items that provide an insight into areas that I want to refine for the most part but also if they include all or many of the four siblings results on this database. A couple more Blake with very early American colonial ancestry came to light and will spend a little time on those. Again the risk is that this is a common area and may not do anymore for me than conclude that these individuals came from the southwestern area along the coast of England towards Portsmouth on the east including the Southampton area. I already know that the Knight family was early in Colonial North America coming to Newfoundland in the 1500s with some then moving to colonial America through the years. Since they come out of this data in the Blake line I must be cautious (Edward Blake of Upper Clatford, Hampshire (my great grandfather) married Maria Jane Knight from Turnworth, Dorset 29 Oct 1870.  

Church was at my regular YouTube account for Christ Church Cathedral. A lovely service as always and the sermon particularly interesting. 

Cleaning day and it is the top floor and I will begin in a bit but first solitaire puzzles and really first my 250 steps for 9:00 to keep my FitBit up to date.  Also today I must write the Kipp Newsletter and the H11 Newsletter. Both will be quite short. 

Solomon builds a temple for God to dwell in

 1 Kings continues the historical narrative and many archaeological digs have verified material in the Bible. I found it interesting how Israel and Lebanon worked together with Lebanon supplying the cedar and the cypress for the temple. It was a different time when the King of Lebanon was awarded cities in the Galilee for all of his kindness in supplying the material requested. The daughter of the Pharaoh of Egypt who was the wife of King Solomon of Israel also had a house built for her by Solomon. It is fascinating reading all of this material now at 81 years of age having read it years and years ago. Often times I have read these passages or heard them read at Church or online Church. But now I can visualize some of it perhaps because my mind is old I do not know. But I am finding doing this reading every morning gives a freshness into my life knowing so much more about God. His presence on earth always welcomed by the faithful and does He let us know He is here sometimes. I always think the wind in the trees tells us God is near. 

Today is Sunday and Church online again and perhaps it will be here or there. I find that it is just wonderful to be able to go to Church although when COVID was first closing us down I read the service from my email at the usual time and that was also special. Perhaps we shouldn't forget that God is flexible and only He can decide what He thinks about anything. He gave us the rules to live by - love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength and love our neighbour as ourself. These two commandments given to us by Jesus Christ His only Son can bring us to that uplifted plain of peace; I do firmly believe that. 

Yesterday another good day on the matches and I have now extracted 45 new matches and I continue today as the lengths are still over 25 cM or even 20 cM depending on the match itself. I seldom do less but again depends on how many of the four siblings tested are matching. A very flexible extraction procedure for sure. 

I finished the lawn yesterday; well actually my daughter did the very last part at the top of the yard by the house. She has to avoid some of the flowering plants/wild flowers this time of year as she is allergic and of course one is working very hard cutting the grass so that increases the effect of the plants on her lungs. She has been like that all of her life really but she works hard at handling it and managing it. I find it hard wearing a mask but she has gotten used to it and manages that very well also. 

Soon the dogs will be here and that will be fun. Fortunately she is not allergic to dogs and loves them as well. But summer research time is coming to an end soon enough and back to work although she has had meetings every week for her work and for her studies (four studies ongoing and two have funding). She works many hours every day on this project or the other or preparing her notes for the fall term. But here she can go kayaking and walking and the house is big enough that she can get lots of exercise plus we have air purifiers which help a great deal especially if there is smoke. 

Church is now I notice so must run. I was late today.  

 

1 Kings

 Solomon has been anointed King of all of Israel and David has died. Again the  historical recitation of all these events is a valuable addition to our knowledge of Homo sapiens. The close relationship between God and the King of Israel continues. To live within the aura of God is to live the perfect life which He commanded. Any transgression is punished. Solomon marries the daughter of the King of Egypt. Early on in 1 Kings is the story of two women who had given birth and one of the women had suffocated her child accidentally in the night and took the other's woman's child as her own replacing her child with the dead infant. Solomon passed judgement and decided that the woman who was unwilling to have the living child divided in half was the true mother of the child. A Bible story that is known by so many. 

Another busy day yesterday and I did cut about half of the lawn in the back yard as well as pulling weeds. There are so many weeds still not done. If it does not rain later I will pull more weeds and cut more lawn. Perhaps next year I will hire a company to do the lawns. But we have managed it this year. 

Worked on the matches and there are perhaps a couple of pages left to look at before entering these new results into my large table. I will probably use AI to separate out the four lines once again. My major task for the AI (Copilot) is to review the matches in each chromosome and extract the relatives in common from the original files  and then group the matches according to this commonality. I shall have to consider how to make those decisions and how much data I want to have to understand those decisions. The AI will be much quicker than I am doing that but I will review the end results. It is just simpler for the AI to drawn out the material and create lists for me. 

Forgot to write a letter to my sister and did accomplish that yesterday and take it to the mailbox. It will be quite late but will try harder this next week to accomplish the letter in good time. I talked about the Blake book somewhat and my theory that the Blake surname was a result of marriage between a John who lived at Knights Enham and a daughter of a Norman family whose surname was Blake (possibly le Blak). The advantage in such a marriage was very large for sure in a country that was now governed by a Norman King and had been for over one hundred years. By then I suspect the British people were used to the Norman overlords who simply inserted themselves into the landscape with a number of landowners/dwellers  in their lordship and the Normans paid homage to the King who was a Norman. Time passed and over time the Normans married into the English families and gradually the English dominated. That is the way of history very often. The Norman kings were gradually replaced by English once again as the centuries passed. The traces of French in England remains like beef/boeuf for the product and cow for the animal which is the english word where the french word is vache. 

 Today is the first day of August and I want to do a Kipp Newsletter issue where I mention that we have sent three containers of Kipp material (primarily BC Kipp) to the Chilliwack Archives in British Columbia because many of the original images were from E Harvey Kipp, Postmaster, Chilliwack BC. They will be available to Kipp researchers there. I also want to do a brief newsletter for H11 mitochondrial haplogroup. 

I cannot decide what to do about the bush that has grown through the fence this summer. I will try to pull some of it out and back into the yard next door but the rest I will cut off as it is hard on the fence. I never really understand why the neighbours let these items grow through the fence as I pull out the things that are mine moving through the fence. But what can I say; one just lives as one lives for sure. Moving on for sure one of these days. 

Solitaire puzzles still to do. I discovered I had not done the 30 April so went back and did that yesterday so I have completed the entire year thus far.  

Thank you God for another beautiful day in God's world. Praise be that the silver mine has now been approved for Ontario - many jobs will be available.