May Day I always especially remember my grandparents. Celebrated in the British Isles and Europe as a major holiday, May Day was also a memory my father would share from his memory of life in Eastleigh, Hampshire where he grew up (he was nine years of age when he came to Canada with his mother, his father had come six months earlier to set up house for them). He would tell us about dancing around the may-pole. It was this lovely day that everyone shared in. It is like a breath of fresh air here as it does tend to mark the end of winter and usher in those warm spring days (albeit we could still have snow!).
I did manage to get the Kipp Family Newsletter published; that was interesting that I thought it was time for the Pincombe-Pinkham Newsletter (1st of June is the next). But when I brought up the template I realized it was actually not due for another month and so worked on the Kipp Newsletter. It was just two pages as I will only discuss the yDNA results now for the Kip family of New Amsterdam/New York from which my husband descended. I decided not to put out an issue of the H11 Newsletter; I will do two issues this year - one completed already the 1st of February and the next will be the 1st of August.
I re-watched the fifth introductory you tube video on the Untold Story of the Kingdom of Judah. It is a very heavy educational lecture which looks at the ancient Nation of Israel from the Biblical information, the archaeological information and the written historical information. I will watch it a third time just to make sure I did not miss anything before I move forward to the sixth lesson of the introduction. The Old Testament part of the Bible is really the story of the family that walked and talked with God. It is a family story and like all family stories the flow is not always uniform and there are different writers but overall the picture is the story that was handed down from generation to generation and is a gift of the Hebrew people to the world. There are none to few other written records that could provide us with so much detail on the very ancient world that our ancestors lived in. But it remains a family story in those early chapters of the Bible. This series is exceptional in its depth and breadth of discussion and I really appreciate that the original lecture series (produced by Dr Lipschits) has been translated from the Hebrew to English by Professor Oded Lipschits of Tel Aviv University in Israel. It will take me quite a while to watch the entire set of lectures but then it does generally take an entire semester or perhaps two to work through all of these lectures.
Today is a Pencombe-Pinkham research day and I continue extracting information from Find My Past. It will take me several months I expect and I am going slowly as I work my way through each record placing it where I can readily relocate it for linking purposes. I always contemplate whether I should do this on paper but I do have the charts from the earlier study to look at as I am working away. Although I do not agree always with these charts (my own line is incorrect) they are a good start discussing the family. That is more than there was before the two researchers started for sure and each researcher that follows will increase the depth and breadth of the study. Certainly I am sure that others will follow my work, dissect it and make changes/corrections. I thank them for it as that is the purpose of research to refine, improve and correct.
It is time to think about tea and latin.
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