Being Alive 2025

       The new year begins for me still moving about my Jones surname family tree. One reference that will still be used is titled The Historians' History Of The World. It describes itself as "A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise and Development of Nations from the Earliest Times. Edited with the Assistance of Advisers and Contributors", by Henry Smith Williams. It was first published 1904 "In Twenty-Five Volumes" by The "Encyclopaedia Britannica Company", New York. Each of the volumes shows the following image with the Latin statement as scanned.

      On multiple occasions the meaning of this motto marched around the valleys and canyons of my mine seeking its translation. Any Latin speaking folks out there in blogspot land that might help with a translation? This present site has visitors from around 170 countries with Brazil, Germany, and Austria heading the list at the start of 2025. Please post in the comment section which follows below your translation. It may be a good motto for this new year?

Closing The Door To 2024

               "Our fathers watered with their tears This sea of time whereon we sail;" 

               "Their voices were in all men's ears Who passed within their puissant hail,"  

               "Still the same ocean round us raves, But we stand mute, and watch the waves." 

      From Poems By Matthew Arnold. New and Complete Edition. (p. 339) Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, New York; no year listed. Matthew Arnold 1822 - 1888, viewed as a critic of the Victorian Age! What of this age now closing on 2024?

      puissant = powerful; strong; mighty; forcible - - from: Noah Webster's First Edition Of The English Language, 1828.

Happy Memories

      Merry Christmas and many Merry Memories to my Jones surname ancestors! Thank you for the life you past down all the hallways of time. Sending all my gratitude and love this Christmas Day 25 December 2024. The Jones Genealogist. 

Cultural Dynamics

        Cultural can be defined as the integrated pattern of human behavior that includes thought, speech, action, artifacts and, depends on man's capacity for learning and, transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations. Wow! This out of my good friend and lifetime partner Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary 150th Anniversary Edition which is now not so new since published in 1973 (p. 274). Anyhow, the pursuits, interest, and pleasures of my ancestors got pretty cloudy during this time (black death) of their journeys. Land and earth still played a dominate component among the three major spheres of influence seeking to climb together out of this deep valley of death. [see post 21 February 2024]

       Celtic to Welsh to my Jones surname [ lots of posts starting Unto These Hills and Mountains 23 January 23, 2022!]. Then, that Offa and group built a dyke along the way [Welcome To The Neighborhood ... NOT  28 June 2023]. Finally, those French speaking fellas brought their own cultural dynamic called feudalism [post: A World In Crisis 18 September 2023]. Whew, all these cultural dynamics came together while trying to figure the connections of my family tree. My Jones surname family of Llwyn-Onn [ see: Through The Ages: "Of Llwyn-Onn" 28 August 2023]. The Norman families de Grey and Fitzalan had important connections [see: Neighbors In Time 7 September 2024]. Finally, it was the Saxon connection to the Hanmer family that broke through the final major brick wall. Yet to be presented after climbing out of this valley of deep cultural dynamics.

 P.S. Here is a scan of the inside front of my Webster's copy. It is shown to thank them for all their help through my years since 1973 and, their years since 1831!

Many More Bridges Needed Over These Troubled Waters

        Dark and troubled waters covered the genealogy effort involving my Jones surname tree climbing during these days. [1300-1400 A.D.] Loss of life, loss of family members, loss of land, and maybe even loss of purpose were many of the dynamics that stirred the waters. Last post gave some of the associated family surnames that often helped bridge some issues. Likewise, the following references give additional items that assisted in connecting some branches. They are saved in my research notebooks by topic/subject and, can be searched by issue using the search bar at https://tjgresearchnotebooks.blogspot.com. Please remember RN= (abbreviation for Research Notebook and # = number for notebook followed by content in notebooks).                        Oswestry - Wat's Dyke  RN#163                                                                                                                       Wrexham  RN#164                                                                                                                                           Denbigh RN#165                                                                                                                                                      Llanfair Dyffyn-Clwyd RN#166                                                                                                                                   Co. Flint RN#167                                                                                                                                            St. Tysilio RN#168                                                                                                                                         Land Tenures RN#170                                                                                                                                    A Parallel Chronology RN#172                                                                                                                Family Studies - Summary Tables RN#173                                                                                                                        

Associated Family Surnames

        Life would never be the same following the "Black Death". My Jones surname family seemed to live another day but, it must have been difficult. The sons of Tudor Trevor (JC-1) all seemed to continue their branches down the family tree. A variety of surnames sharing the same Y-DNA scattered about the same geographic areas now called Denbighshire and Flintshire. A few surnames in Montgomeryshire, Cardiganshire and Merionethshire took their place among the branches. The following group of surnames are found, of course, in Nicholas.

  

    Here they are with their pages listed.

             For Denbighshire: Yale (p.419), Trevor (p.415), Griffith (p.408), Trevor of Brynkinallt (p.415), Trevor of Trevalyn (p.393) [spelled Trev-alyn p. 391, p.395, and p. 376].  Of course, my Jones branches listed as Jones-Parry (p.355, p. 411, p.189).

              For Flintshire: Pennant (p.453), Mostyn (p.451 and p.452), Lloyd (p.450), Eyton (p.446), Young (p.440) and Trevor (p.457).

              For Montgomery: Owen (p.811), Price (p.810), Trevor (p.813) and Lloyd (p.813).

              For Cardiganshire: Lloyd (p.947).

              For Merionethshire: Lloyd (p. 705).

       Whew! All these surnames sharing the same Y-DNA!

A Drawing Of Llwyn-Ynn

        From my Celtic, to Welsh, to Jones surname, the geographic area near Ruthin seems to be the green, green grass of home. For the century 1300 - 1400 A.D., the Y-DNA component is labeled of Llwyn - Onn (Denbighshire side spelled Llwyn - Ynn).  To date, the only actual "recording" of its existence is shown from a drawing pictured in the text by Nicholas first printed 1872!  Here it is...drum roll please...

       From page 374 it appears black-and-white but, it states taken from a water-color drawing. What it shows is a two story, multi-gabled (dormer) structure fading into the gradual slopping hillside. From a drawing of Llwyn - Ynn to the hillsides of Kentucky, who would have guessed.

        From one of my favorite and most helpful genealogical texts :

       Many, many and many branched of my Jones surname family tree were untwined and established climbing among the pages.