The Blake Newsletter is completed and on the website, Volume 14, Issue 1, 2025. Hard to believe it is fourteen years since I started the Newsletter. All copies are available on the FT DNA website for the yDNA Blake Project. I do accept articles for publication and with my currently writing two books - one on the Blake Family of Andover and the second on the Pencombe Family of North Molton - I can see the length of my newsletters will be somewhat shorter at least in this time period. I will share some of the material I transcribe with the Newsletters periodically particularly the Latin transcriptions from earlier days. Hopefully my Latin lessons of the last year or so will be up to scratch and I will do an efficient job of them.
Minus 7 Celsius at 11:00 a.m. so not likely much snow here and what we did have has iced over or melted so not really fit for skiing. Perhaps we will get another load of snow in the next few days. It is excellent exercise to be out skiing.
My mind is in this in between state as I move from working on the Companion Charting Book for the Siderfin Family of West Somerset to the Blake and Pencombe books. Both are in the early stages of writing as I did spend about five months working on both of them through last winter and spring. I did set them aside though during the cataract surgery and the recovery period. I elected for a long recovery period since I am elderly and I did have some items which I had planned to work on during this time like my daily Latin learning period and of course my sudoku and solitaire games. Both are really calming items and I find that to be a good way to work away at something interesting when one feels the need to do so.
I was on a schedule working on the Blake and Pencombe books generally two days at a time during each week and then cleaning two other days and a rest time on Sunday. It was working quite well and will likely return to that schedule as I begin next week. I also took on the Probate Index management for the Guild of one name studies. I still have thousands of lines of transcription that I have not submitted and with the Probate Index Manager stepping back it seemed like a good fit for me and will let me directly put my work into the system which already contains thousands of my lines already. I have blogged most of the wills but not all of them with Blake being the largest number and I will continue transcribing the Blake wills as I want to complete the PCC wills and others that I have acquired through the years.
Teatime, yoga, breakfast and solitaire games all completed and the Newsletter is posted so the day is open and I shall have to contemplate what to do with this sort of free Friday. I think some organization and reading likely. I do need to read the two books that are already partially written and that will likely be my task today and tomorrow.
I will post again the information for the Companion Charting Book for the Siderfin Family of West Somerset:
http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/Companion Charting Book with notes for The Siderfin Family of West Somerset - Elizabeth Kipp 4600.pdf
Paste this line into your browser or
Go to my website:
http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/elizabethmain.htm
and
select from the list of 3x great grandparents: SIDERFIN and go to the
bottom of that section where the two books are listed.
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