Cleaning all accomplished and a new month has arrived
The first of the month is always a refreshing day; we begin the count anew for the days and each one of these days of March brings us closer to that exciting moment in the spring when the buds swell up...
View ArticleToday's Bible Reading and Lent without borders
Interestingly or coincidentally, the Bible Reading and the Lent without Borders email from Dr. Nahimana have a similar theme today. Perhaps in God's own time the two have come together to re-emphasize...
View ArticleAnother day on Siderfin
Continuing hunting out the missing Siderfin entries in the census. I could just do a global look for Siderfin on FMP but that is over 2000 entries. Doing it piecemeal is perhaps slower in the long run...
View ArticlePurcombe surname
Found a rather interesting surname in Blackawton Parish, Coleridge Hundred namely Purcombe; a Richard Purcombe G 4, a William Purcombe G 4, and a Wm Purcombe W1 (1524)/ G1 (1525). A son perhaps of one...
View ArticleCompleted the 1524-7 Devon Lay Subsidy
It was a very useful task to read through the entire 1524-7 Lay Devon Subsidy. The Tyncombe family was I believe larger at this time than in the later Subsidies but still centered around the same area....
View ArticleBusy research day yesterday and Sunday today
Lent 2 today and we have moved to a new person writing the Lent without borders email. I found the theme to be very interesting "creational love dwelling among us" considering this last year of our...
View ArticleGolden sunrise and minus 6 degrees celsius
We are into pre-spring and the heavy snows we often get in March. The weather warms up (for us anyway from the minus teens and twenties of February) and we know that Spring is around the corner. Winter...
View ArticleThe second cleaning day
Yesterday was a good accomplishment day as the cleaning of the two floors has been done and just the basement remains. I also did my every three weeks food shopping which also worked out well. Having...
View ArticleOngoing Projects
It seems like an ideal time to list the projects that I have set aside or am currently working on as summer approaches. This year I plan to try and work in some of my studies whilst also gardening. 1....
View ArticleDawn of a new day
As I completed my solitaire set of games for the day I opened the drapes and saw dawn in the east arising above the houses across from me. My mind actually strayed as I contemplated spring coming and...
View ArticleThe equinox is coming
Perhaps the greatest thing about March in my part of the world is the coming of the Spring Equinox generally around March 20-21 and this year it will be March 20. We are now almost one third of the way...
View ArticleGood progress on Siderfin yesterday
Already on page 11 of the 2,424 Find My past set of Siderfin results and I will be able to move through some pages quickly as they are census and I have already looked at most of them. The process is...
View ArticleFourth Generation of Siderfin appearing to fall into place; next step Fifth...
The Fourth Generation of Siderfin is now fitting in for the most part with the available records and now to move to the Fifth Generation where I am definitely missing people (have people I can not...
View ArticleThree references for Siderfin at Timberscombe and Selworthy
Doing my slow work on the 2424 hits on FMP revealed three references which I actually do have in my database but did not really have them attached anywhere in the compilations I have been doing the...
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Continuing on yesterday's theme - The Siderfin Family at Minehead, Selworthy,...
Placing John (baptized 1656 at Wootton Courtney) and William (married to Mary Terrel 23 Feb 1692 at Selworthy) as children of Robert (baptized 1616 at Minehead, Robert 3, William 2, John 1) fits in...
View ArticleMinehead Parish Registers and Siderfin
Continuing to look for missing items or unattached items brought attention to the baptism of Robert Siderfin 7 May 1689 son of Robert and Elizabeth Siderfin and the baptism of Walter Siderfin 28 Jan...
View ArticleDiscovery and Siderfin
Continuing to work on this 5th generation of Siderfin and comparing James Sander's chart with the records and checking on the individual members in Generation 4 to see what has been said about each of...
View ArticleInteresting Reflection on Lent without Borders today - Love as a measure of time
A cousin pushing me to write a profile on my Pincombe family and the introduction of DNA to genealogy brought me into the idea of Surname Research along with 42 courses at the National Institute of...
View ArticleUp to Page 35 on the Siderfin Hits
Yesterday continued my project looking at the Siderfin hits on the FMP website and I have completed Page 34 and working on Page 35. I will soon have to begin working on the Blake Newsletter so it will...
View ArticleLent without Borders - Love that seeks the Common Good
A beautiful fitting theme for the fourth week of Lent - Love that Seeks the Common Good. Would that the entire world could think in that way this week of Lent. We are a responding world; when Türkiye...
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