Cleaning accomplished but not much else
Cleaning all accomplished and that was the two floors - lucky this house is small because I am getting older. Although at this point in time I can still manage everything fairly readily. I also cleared...
View ArticleBasement Cleaning completed on to the work week
I must say greed continues to amaze me. Sometimes I feel greedy for living on in this house which is too big for me but not really that big a house. I think when the greedy genes were handed out I...
View ArticleAncestry matches and Pencombe
I did work on the Pencombe family in Herefordshire and Devonshire for a few hours pulling out the data and adding it to the chapter. I contemplated ordering one document but did not do so yet....
View ArticleBrian Mulroney has died; I always had great respect for him as Prime Minister...
Just noticed last night that Brian Mulroney has died. A sad day for Canada for sure as he brought in our modern system of taxing which has stood the government in good stead ever since. I was very...
View ArticleWhy aid trucks in the middle of the night
I do wonder why aid trucks are arriving in Gaza in the middle of the night - I am suspicious by nature especially in that the Palestinians were told that food trucks would be coming. I do not trust...
View ArticleSunday in God's World
Some fog today but another beautiful day in God's world. Climate Change is certainly showing in Canada this winter. Pray for the Polar Bears as they will struggle to find enough food to eat this year...
View ArticleThe next issue of the Pincombe-Pinkham Newsletter will come up today
I will release the newsletter today on the Ft DNA website and the portion that was to be added as a discussion on y-DNA will be in the next newsletter. I need a little more time to really work on that...
View ArticleHunter Gatherer and the Norman Conquest
Although there were likely a lot of population changes in England I think that the big divide is between the Hunter Gatherer population and those who came during and directly after the Norman...
View ArticleBlake Pedigree Chart
Being directed to the Blake Pedigree Chart was an interesting quest and I purchased the eight copies of pictures of this rather large 12 feet by 4 feet manuscript from the Swindon and Wiltshire Record...
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Pencombe research day - Devon Archives
I did find one interesting Feoffment in the Devon Archives: Feoffment (partially illegible) (I) Walter Babacomb and Richard Wylle To Richard Burgyn, gent.; John Addyngton, gent.; William Susan;...
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Why my view changed from total acceptance of the Blake Pedigree Chart to one...
As I mentioned in the review of the Blake Pedigree Chart on Tuesday, I listened to a comment that I heard at "Who Do You Think You Are? in London, UK in 2013 and started to rethink my thoughts on the...
View ArticlePencombe today and I am making a decision that affects the book
Today is a Pencombe day and I think a decision day perhaps. I can not really see any value in my researching the Pynkeham family that lived at Tawstock. Although it is in the area of...
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Back to the Pedigree Chart which I have analyzed through the years
As I said in my earlier post my initial acceptance of the Pedigree Chart as written when I first purchased it from the Swindon and Wiltshire Office was replaced following our attendance at the "Who...
View ArticleMothering Sunday yesterday in England
And probably in some places the Anglican Church also celebrates Mothering Sunday worldwide. This week we started out in the Chapel of the Old Deanery which is near St Pauls Cathedral. We visited St...
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Blake family Chart held by the Bridgwater Blake Museum
I think the one thing I have learned since I first started into surname research back in 2007 was that there is always a purpose to producing a chart and in this case to link the Somerset Blake family...
View ArticleCleaning completed
Completed the basement cleaning yesterday and then watched a movie on Netflix - Geostorm. Absolutely fantastic movie. I do love watching "space" movies for sure. Did not actually accomplish anything...
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Looking at the first six generations of the Blake Family Chart - Blake Museum...
The chart begins with a Robert le Blake who was a juror at an Inquisition Postmortem according to the Chart at Hungerford Bar 22 Jan 1336. He is said to be of Quemberford Wiltshire. This would be old...
View ArticleBack to Pencombe and it does feel like a few days since I worked on this family
Some of my distant cousins are going to acquire some Pencombe documents for me when they travel to England later this year. They should prove interesting although also in Latin likely. I have to get...
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Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine - Volume 9
Nearly spring and the snow is all gone pretty much here. The ground looks dry instead of muddy like it usually is. Time will tell. A yellow sunrise in God's world in the east. What is God thinking as...
View ArticlePalm Sunday to come and memories
Next Sunday is Palm Sunday and perhaps some of the strongest memories of my youthful Church come back to me at Easter. The most important day in the Church Year because my life as a child revolved...
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