Well, after being able to sun for the past four or five consecutive days, I unexpectedly found myself with an overcast sky today, Friday.
Not only that, but a check of the weather forecast for my local area reveals that all the way through the next full week ─ and that includes next Friday ─ only next Thursday is being shown without an association of at least some rain.
So next Thursday is to have sunshine and cloud for the day, and then it's back to the threat of rain.
Good for the plants, I suppose! But I hate being denied the opportunity to sunbathe for such an extended period.
The only other thing I wanted to report about today is that after searching and searching to try and find out who my great grandmother's parents were ─ my great grandmother was born on February 14, 1862 in the Winnipeg, Manitoba area (the Red River Settlement) ─ I finally received a response yesterday to my recent enquires.
The response came from a man who had identified himself at a genealogical website with this claim relating to the geographic area of concern: "I concentrate on Metis genealogy prior to 1900 and have a data base with about 42,000 individuals."
In recent weeks I had come to realize that my great grandmother seemed to have aboriginal (i.e., Indian) blood through both of her parents, but nowhere have I been able to find who those parents are.
What makes this so frustrating and exceedingly peculiar is that I know who are likely her grandparents on both her father's and her mother's sides of her bloodline, but somehow the link represented specifically by her parents has been historically broken ─ nothing as yet about them can be proven.
I have two candidates in mind, but I have been unable to find a record of any but one or maybe two of that couples' progeny, and both of those were male.
Even the gentleman who has gotten back to me has as yet been unable to verify who her parents are ─ despite his enormous database; but he promised not to forsake the investigation.
That I may have aboriginal blood through both of this woman's parents is quite unexpected, for my father never voiced to me that we were anything but derived from Spanish (by way of Spain) and Scottish ancestry. So I do not believe that he knew about his grandmother on his father's side ─ my father had never met her. She died in 1905, and he was born in 1921.
He had not even met his grandfather on his father's side ─ that grandfather died in 1916.
The only grandparents he ever knew were his mother's parents.
Anyway, that is where this mystery stands at present. I hope my contact can find the resolution ─ I feel I would owe him a great debt if he can do this.
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