Proofreading continuing

I completed to the end of the 9th generation in the revised book yesterday. That did seem like a good use of my time and and hopefully I will get through the entire book (except the Appendices which I will not reread) perhaps by early next week. That will let me return to the Companion Charting book which I will feel more comfortable about flipping back and forth to the newer *.pdf which I will create and upload so that it can be downloaded from my website. I will not put it on the blog heading this time. Once I have uploaded it I will put the URL on the blog for that day and perhaps days to follow. Still I am not finding significant changes other than those already mentioned. For which I am grateful actually, I do know my eyes were not doing as well as normal at the time but somewhat of a relief that I caught most of them. The biggest error being a John 7 listed in the descendancy string rather than Augustine 7. Weird really that I did that but it was incredibly consistent which is like me. 

I am looking forward to completing and publishing this Companion Charting book for the revised edition of James Sanders' book. Putting the book together and publishing it in 1912 was a gift to the family really and I think we should be forever grateful to him for his collection of material given that so much was lost in the bombing of the Exeter Record Office during World War II. The wills can never really be replaced but fortunately a number of them were abstracted earlier in time at least giving a small glimpse into the contents of what were likely long wills with so much family information. 

My mind is starting to turn back to the Blake and Pincombe books in my free time away from the Siderfin project. I am looking forward to getting back into that work once again but will take it at an even slower pace than I had imagined. The next thing about surname studies is you can lay it down at any time placing it in a secure place and at some point in the future someone will likely be happy to have found all your notes and material and take up the mantle of that surname research once again. 

I am toying with whether or not I will preserve my DNA sample at My Heritage. I have all the results one could possibly imagine or want as far as DNA is concerned and I do not particularly see anyone in the wings looking to work on these lines I have spent the last twenty one years looking at so wonder at the value since I have recorded and will burn to a long lasting DVD the material thus far acquired. Is there a value to the research in having a full genome done of my DNA is really the contemplation of which I am in the midst. I may still decide in favour but I still have about six weeks to do that. 

I am listening to the thoughts of our political leaders as they head into this next year of working with our neighbours to the south. We have not yet heard from the Conservative Party in that regard and I personally think that the deputy leader has put forward some very very excellent comments in the house over this past year as I watch Question Period often enough. Being in control is really the best feature of a leader; not being a follower there are plenty of those already. Election year 2025 in Canada will be a very interesting one for sure. 

Breakfast time and then latin. I am coming to the end of the actual lessons but will stay with the project doing the reviews as more lessons come on board hopefully. But also I want to get back into French again as I want to work on my son in law's genealogy which I started back in 2008 but have not really had a lot of time to work on it although I do have an extensive tree now as I added it to my tree which was always in the 6000 people range but that quickly sent it up over 30,000 with all his French Canadian ancestors going back to the early days of New France and by good fortune with marriages takes at least one of his lines back into early Turtle Island history as it turns out. Interesting name for this continent actually it is starting to grow on me. As a transplant from the British Isles with mostly English ancestry, I admire the ancestry of these earliest peoples and the stories that they must have of life thousands of years ago just as my grandfather told me stories handed down likely to him by his parents, grandparents and even great grandparents whom he knew as a child. They emerge in my brain occasionally these days as I reach towards 80. Amazed though none the less to have Sir John Carling as my great grandmother's first cousin. My maternal grandmother (wife to her son) used to tell me stories about this great grandmother whom she never knew except through her husband's eyes. My small Canadian line - myself, my mother, my maternal grandfather, and his mother are my only Canadian born ancestors. All the rest were born in England in the near past and for the Routledge/Routledge lines which we share with the Carling family back into the Highlands of Scotland. There are Irish lines but are they Planters from Scotland or are they Irish; that still remains a question to be solved perhaps not necessarily by me but in the future - we carry that knowledge in our genes.