Head 'um up ...

        Black and white T.V. was an amazement during my childhood days of the late 1950's. Watching the outside world move about the inside world of your living room was an astonishing adventure.

        Now, "Rawhide" was one of my all-time favorites. When all those "cowpokes" had filled their stomachs around that morning campfire, they called to one another that it was about time to herd all those pesky, cows together and, move on down the trail. "Head 'um up ..., move 'um out" came the jingle ... "Rawhide"! Since 1959, this saying has come to my mind on the many occasions when it was about my time to move on down the trails of life.

        Such is this genealogy time of my ancestors. They have been grouped together as a large heard of folks, mulling about the fields of time, just after the black death of the 1350s. Many of the recent posts have discussed a thought process which huddles the folks into cluster groups by Y-DNA. This would make my own ancestor's Y-DNA a little easier to follow along the future trails (branches) of the family tree. Clarification was the need. Celtic, to become Welsh, to become my surname JONES, the point of descent it is. A bit of mixture here and, a bit of mixture there but, hey, ... "Head 'um up ... move 'um out"!