Thursday, October 24, 2024

More accomplishment yesterday

 Slowly moving ahead and I got started working on Edward's thesis to put it up on line. Although the work was done from 1966 to 1970 when he completed his PhD, he continued to be cited years and years later around the world. It was exciting for him and helped to make the change much more amenable to him as the years passed. My daughter suggested I OCR the text which is actually a good idea and then I can scan the images as *TIFFs without being concerned about the size. I will convert it to an *.pdf for easy upload. I actually typed this thesis so we have a clean still relatively new looking original copy.

I also worked on the Charting book and this is the more difficult part when I took the available data and added a John to the family of John and Mary (Chapman) Siderfin born circa 1684 and the information in the second wife's will (Maria (Winter) Siderfin) provided me with a granddaughter for this John Siderfin - Joanna accounting for that interesting birth and removing it from the Robert Siderfin/Joanna (Kittner) Siderfin family as I do not believe they had any children. It certainly gave it credence and having a Robert Siderfin as a witness to the marriage contract and marriage for John certainly made the case for this being the William line and not the Robert line as shown on James Sanders' Pedigree Chart. It is not really a big deal but it prevented the actual flow from Robert 4 (Robert 3, William 2, John 1) second son of Robert from having descendants that were actually his and live still into this century carrying the Siderfin surname. 

A little attention to my Powerpoint projects as well. This does help to break up my day and to give me more space to make sure I get all my exercise in as well in a timely and spread out fashion. 

I was contemplating the comment made by an Australian Senator to King Charles in Australia. He said "not my King" and I am left to wonder why people get so hung up on this. Charles is a figurehead; he has very good intentions with regard to the world and represents one of the earliest adopters to organic farming on a commercial scale, one of the earliest voices concerned about the environment and has an enormous love for the people of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. He does not interfere in any country including his own which is a democratic monarchy. So why the comment? Is it a bit outdated to make these comments; he is after all only a figure head. Where else would we get a figurehead who has no interest in their own advancement - he is already at the pinnacle of his position in life and probably desires nothing more. He is non-opinionated as the King despite his having opinions as a lesser royal. Personally I thought he was entitled to them and make good points throughout his life. I found it interesting that he did not interfere in his son's choice of wives and has been a wonderful father in law to both. He loves his grandchildren but his time appears to belong to the people of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth although he does get involved in worldly happenings on occasion when his health permits. Although I would not carry signs and become opinionated verbally if a decision was made to turn us into a republic but I would wonder at the value in that and the cost of change over and the chances that we would actually benefit from an elected head of state personally. But then I am of 100% British heritage and do realize that I see all of this from that standpoint. 

Breakfast done, Latin completed and next the Charting book before weightlifting. 

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