I Will. Have. Order.

With apologies to Dolores Umbridge, while in complete disagreement but feeling her frustration.

If you are not a fan of Harry Potter (You’d better not be a fan of Professor Umbridge.), the screenshot of just five sets of files that I’m currently working with should at least be a clue of what I’m talking about. I expect that anyone who looks at it can figure out what Dolores was going through.

The lists of events, people, places and ideas are an electronic visualization resembling Umbridge’s wall of educational decrees at Hogwarts. I really don’t want to try to visualize what’s going on in my brain right now. Spontaneous combustion frightens me.

These five PPT files are evidence of my scattered research over the past decade. It will probably surprise you that at least four of the PPT files represent people, places, and events from Wales before Mary even existed and there is plenty more representing Mary, her family, friends, places and events. But there is a method to my madness, and it will be revealed soon. Everything that comes before sets in motion the series of events and even thought processes that set Mary’s life on the path across the ocean and into America’s “Wild West”.

This is my chapters one through four. I’ll be ready to write once I have compiled them into two files: one a chronological list of events, people, and places, and the other a bibliography of research in the order it appears. Those two files will be separated by chapter as events and people begin to appear along Mary’s path. Every detail will be found in its correct order while I further compartmentalize information before, during, and after Mary’s lifetime.

Until I have a sequence of events by chapter, I can’t write.

For now, my goal is to pare down and combine at least two lists a day. That way, I’ll be ready to go for next week.

In the meantime, watch for new profiles and a new “places” page for the following people and places:

People

• Rudolf ABELES
• King(s) EINION
• Mary EYNON
• EYNON surnames and polities
• Johannes “John” KWIATKOWSKI
• King Arthwrys ap MOR/MAR
• Peter SZADLOWSKI
• King Henry VII, TUDOR 1457-1509
• JORDANOWO, Inowroclaw, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Prussia/Austria/Russia/Poland–depending on time frame and politics

Places

• Brooklyn, New York, American Colonies/United States–depending on time frame and politics
• Brunn bei Pitten, Niederösterreich, Austria
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• Historical Llanelly/Lanelli, Carmarthenshire, Cymru\Wales, Great Britain/United Kingdom–depending on time frame and politics
• Olean, Cattaraugus, New York, United States
• Pitten, Niederösterreich, Austria
• Tupadły, Inowrocław, Kuyavia-Pomerania, Prussia/Austria/Russia Poland–depending on time frame and politics
• Wharton, Potter, Pennsylvania, United States

Please remember that I am currently restructuring Stories From the Past, and these items are listed in alphabetical order. They do not necessarily relate to one another at all, and many of them have no connection to the Second Wife’s Story. Names and Places will likely be re-spelled, reorganized, and rewritten depending on the historical sources I pull from.

Stories will be linked as they are posted.

Personal knowledge of places, people, stories, input, and suggestions are welcome.