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Who am I?

I am an obscure great-great-grandson of Oscar Adolphe Barcelo & Eugenie Beaudry of MontrΓ©al.

And I am an equally obscure great-grandson of George Henry Leandre Barcelo & Sarah Anne Bird of Winnipeg (Manitoba) and Langdon (North Dakota).

Thursday, 3 June 2021

A Hint of My Ancestral Past

I have had the pleasure of my wife's company here at home all day, so I will keep this post short.

It was another hot one, and the nights have been most oppressively heated where trying to sleep is concerned. Things seemed to have lightly clouded over by daybreak early this morning, and even over the course of the morning it appeared that the sky could not make up its mind about whether to be sunny or stay hazed up.

But by midday it was unquestionable that sunshine was prevailing.

I had been up overnight from maybe 1:47 a.m. until around 5 a.m., returning to bed for a little further sleep. It must have been approaching 9:15 a.m. when I checked the time thereafter and rose to confront my day.

I always come here to my computer before anything else, so I did that before going downstairs several minutes ahead of 10 a.m. to boil water for a hot, black, and unsweetened instant coffee prior to joining my younger brother at the T.V. to soon enough put our Android TV Box into operation.

First on the agenda was Odessa Orlewicz's latest video, a 44-minute feature titled June 2- WEF food attacks, and the rest of the weeks atrocities against mankind.

I followed that with a 66-minute video titled The TOP 10 Ways The Shot Will Affect You, Reinette Senum Interviews Dr Sherri Tenpenny

The final piece of entertainment was to be The Arrow's season seven, episode nine, series crossover feature titled "Elseworlds, Part 2". We had already watched the first episode of the three-part storyline a day or two back at The Flash, and likely tomorrow we will watch the conclusion at Supergirl.

The three-parter is of no value to anyone not a fan of these series, for it is feeble on sensible plot and long on impossible battle scenes, with far too much loud music and sound effects. 

But I've been a staunch super-hero comics fan since the latter 1960s, and I also very much appreciate the 'eye candy' staffing these series. Sometimes I even find myself to not be immune to some emotion as I watch these shows. 

At The Arrow's conclusion today, my brother had some short bed rest before he left us for the afternoon to resume his daily drinking somewhere.

I became embroiled in the composition of quite a long E-mail to someone whom I hope will be able to solve a mystery that a paternal cousin and I have been fruitlessly striving to either prove or disprove that concerns the identities of our paternal great grandmother's parents.

Peculiarly enough, there is considerable history on her grandparents on both her father's and her mother's sides, but there is essentially nothing concerning her parents ─ that is, there is nothing that confirms that the two people my cousin and I believe to be her parents truly do deserve that distinction.

The fellow I sent a lengthy E-mail today outlining what is afoot set himself up (at a website I located) to potentially be able to help, for he made this claim in that regard: "I concentrate on Metis genealogy prior to 1900 and have a data base with about 42,000 individuals. I will be happy to assist where I can."

As might be surmised, my cousin and I have come to believe that both of our great grandmother's parents were MΓ©tis in the Winnipeg / Red River Settlement. 

However, since I am not at this time willing to reveal any names in this post, there is really not much sense in speaking any further of my quest.

The E-mail took me longer than planned, and thus it was that I did not begin an hour of sunning out in the backyard in my swimming trunks until 2:56 p.m.

Thereafter, I held myself to a very light first meal of my day, and because of that I have resisted an afternoon nap for what is now a second consecutive afternoon. In both cases, having my wife home was the primary reason for this feat. If she had not been home, I would have eaten larger than I did, and then needed to nap it off. 

It is a little past 7 p.m. as of this moment, so I am going to terminate today's post here and avail myself of some T.V. and a beer or even two.


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