The most greatly celebrated secular holiday in the United States was marred by the murder of the young national guard (a young woman just 20 years of age) standing guard in the capital city of her country)and the other soldier with her (a young man) still fighting for his life in the hospital. Prayers for the soul of the young woman and for the young man in the hospital. Why do people do such things in a country that took them in? so hard to understand. It brought back the memories of the invasion of Israel by Hamas in my mind and how it was received by supporters of Hamas around the world. How can one support people who attack other people? Hard to understand; very hard. They are truly satanists and deserve the full weight of the law thrown at them; not support. They must lay down their arms and stop their rhetoric against people. It is their rhetoric that is the problem; if you do not agree with how people live in their own country then you shouldn't be there; go back to what you had and perhaps then you can appreciate the freedom that exists in our countries which you undermine when you support attackers like Hamas.
Another good working day on the matches although again I move barely forward but now into the K's and will continue today. But I am straightening out matches that were quasi placed way back a decade ago and not really looked at since they had this question mark in them. They do not really help me with my quest because there isn't enough information but they do verify the crossover points often enough as these common areas tend to get passed as lumps; huge lumps on occasion as on this Chromosome 1 they are passed as large 20's or even into the 30's and 40's centimorgans (and their relationship to me in many cases is very distant (23 and Me shows them as 5th or 6th or even 7th cousins!). I have done a little study on this length from a medical viewpoint looking at 23 and Me results and it is interesting for sure. Our way forward in some ways lies in the knowledge gleaned from looking at our DNA and knowing from a young age what you should not do in your life - for instance heavy drinking in your youth is not practical for some people; it immediately limits their health in ways that others are not so affected. Knowing that is a good thing I think but it does require a certain level of discipline that doesn't necessarily exist in our present life-style. The advantage to military service (compulsory) does continue to be an interesting idea for any country I suspect. The regimentation is something that is lacking unless you go into something that is very regimented to build up your ability to use this characteristic of humanity that has brought it along these many thousands of years. But that is my personal opinion for sure.
However one shouldn't assume that I think consumption of alcohol is a bad thing. I certainly do, on occasion, have a glass of wine and as an Anglican we have wine at our Eucharist in memory of the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. I seldom drink other liquors although again I do like Cherry Brandy on rare occasions and in limited amounts. I am just a limited drinker of alcoholic beverages usually in the company of my family and never alone as like drugs it does cloud one's judgement and should be avoided if judgement is something that you are going to need going about your daily life. My knowledge of mood-affecting drugs is very limited to a short period of my life when they appeared to be the path forward but left behind when my mind once again returned to me. Was I lucky? probably but it isn't easy for sure. The discipline again plays a role in our life - the need to be alert at all times.
My new file has proven to be a useful expenditure of my time and I will construct one for the other three grandparent lines - Buller, Pincombe and Rawlings - when the need arises. It is always a process that grows as I aim towards the actual goal of all of this which is to phase my great grandparents in a meaningful way that supports my tree work for the books. Then I can link the census into my thought process as all of these great grandparents were on those census from birth to death in the British Isles other than my Pincombe-Routledge and Gray great grandparents who died here but appear on the appropriate census here in Canada and I have all the records for them here as there are only so very few of them (my 3x great grandparents Thomas Routledge and Elizabeth (Routledge) Routledge (2nd cousins once removed), my 2x great grandparents Mary (Routledge) Gray and Robert Gray and that is it - Grace (Gray) Pincombe was my first Canadian born ancestor and her son John Routledge Pincombe was my second Canadian born ancestor and my mother Helen (Pincombe) Blake was my third. Interesting really to have such a small footprint but fourth generation Canadian on my mother's side and first generation Canadian on my father's side as I was born a British Subject (my father was born in England at Eastleigh, Hampshire) and I was grandfathered to Canadian Citizen along with everyone else born here by the 1st of January 1947.
I always felt very British until I traveled and discovered how Canadian I really am. It is good to travel; you learn so much about yourself really in that traveling. I especially loved being in the British Isles where I learned how Canadian I really am and France where my attempts at speaking French were so keenly welcomed and also in Italy where we (my oldest daughter and I) had spent four months learning to speak Italian; she was very good and easily spoke to the taxi driver although did have to ask him to go a little slower because the language was new to her but my few words spoken along with French when I couldn't remember the Italian did work very well also. When I was in Germany and Switzerland my few words of German also came in handy at the time although when the language of English was chosen for the European Parliament I think English has become much more frequent in Europe. But that is what Canadians are; we are very flexible people who try to compromise our way to success as a country taking the differences and trying to blend which includes being best friends to the First Nations in my opinion. They were here first and have huge knowledge of this country and how life flows here. But they too compromise and one appreciates that as well because they know the way forward is to love the earth and the seas of Canada and help Canada to take care of all of us.
Another research day and exercise day as I work my way back to the level of exercise that I was at before the flu struck. Do get your flu shot as it does slow down the old for sure and the young.
Tea all drank; solitaire puzzles completed and time to think about breakfast.
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