Twenty degrees celsius at 5:00 a.m. and 28 expected high and air quality already at 63 so not a good day outside for sure. I hadn't planned an outside day so that works for me.
Continuing to work on the Siderfin book and the seventh and eighth generations. I heard back from the National Archives and the page check did work out and I will get a copy of the answer by Robert and Ursula Siderfin and John Siderfin by the middle of the month. Looking forward to that and anticipate that it will support my theory that this Robert had just one grandchild - Robert Siderfin married to Elizabeth Question and nine great grandchildren. His line will end up being the only Siderfin male line to survive into the 1800s and continue to the present day. Interesting how life flows. The matches that my four siblings and myself have with Siderfin descendants are rather interesting. In particular on Ancestry where some of the matches are large considering the separation. We have Siderfin matches on 23 & Me, Ancestry, FT DNA, Living DNA, and My Heritage. Thus far, I have not found any Siderfin-Siderfin marriages up to the eighth generation; a feature that does concentrate the DNA in interesting ways.
A lovely walk on the beach yesterday although it was pretty warm being out in the air was pleasant. Having spent most of my childhood time at the beach on Lake Huron, a river beach does seem rather tame but there was a bit of a breeze with subsequent waving into the beach which gave an interesting sound to a usually quiet body of water.
Beginning to think about the Pencombe/Pincombe/Pinkham book and looking forward to beginning that particular project next year. I have quite a bit of material on hand now and will continue to check out possibilities for early research. Again I will use the indexes of the National Archives, Herefordshire, Somerset and Devon to locate early documents and acquire them if I feel they will add to the substance of the Pencombe etc book. It will also be only electronic. I am not into publishing other than electronic. Again I anticipate and do hope that in the future as more material becomes available that revisions will happen. I do not see my children taking on these projects; their interest is minimal and mostly being polite to their aging mother! Preservation of the past is in the interest of the world as we learn much from the lessons of the past. Being a competitive person by nature I do understand the desire to be competitive but in our world's present state it is more important that we work together to ensure the best future for the descendants in a world that can repair and regenerate itself.
Interesting article on the people of Beringia and that the present day First Peoples of the Western Hemisphere may represent at least three sets of migration including the peoples of Beringia whose actual ancestry is indeterminate other than Eastern Europe/Asia. Presumably all of the three sets of migration are from Eastern Europe/Asia with all groups originating in Africa - the cradle of Homo sapiens civilization. I think the most interesting work other than the work on the First Peoples of the Western Hemisphere is the work on the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA and the proportions which show up in our own genes. Homo erectus is also an interesting DNA search as the earliest specimens located were on the Island of Java (Indonesia) but it is now known that Homo erectus lived in both Europe and Asia with the origin still being a mystery whether it was Africa or Europe where Homo erectus first arose. There is so much to do to understand our past as the only surviving human species on the planet and so much to do to repair the planet that competitiveness and imperialism do need to disappear in order that we do the best for our world.
COVID-19 showed us just how vulnerable we, Homo sapiens, are to nature. Nature does always find a way to survive and we are but one species on the planet.
Jumping Jacks and tea soon just to wake up the brain for another day of learning. My latin on duolingo is going well and reading through the Probatum the other day I was surprised at how much I have picked up in just two months. Solitaire games do also wake up the brain and then on to breakfast, more research, weight lifting, research again, running, lunch and so the day progresses in God's world. Daylight now at 6:00 a.m. but the wind is silent for the moment.
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