Bon Jour Mon Ami, Mon Familie:

Before I start this:

Copyright 2008 John J. Browne Ayes

I thought that was you in the photo. Yes I did receive the second photo of you and your sister in law in the carousel.

You don't have to worry about the Bourbon because the ancestors I am working with are the de Bourgogne a whole different blood line. I almost made the same mistake because I do have de Bourbon but I neglected to tie in all of the de Bourgogne family. yesterday after uploading data into the Tribal Pages I noticed I had a duplicate entry of the de Bourgogne...Now I will go back into the tree here and fix the double entry and I will finally connect the branch.

As for the Spanish, I can read write it as well as understand it. But when it comes to speaking it...I come off sounding like a Frenchman trying to speak Spanish....All marbles in the mouth. My hearing impairment also prevents me from understanding rapid mouth fire from Spanish speaking people. I often have to stop them to remind them....habla mas despacio por favor. No te oigo....(Speak slowly please, I can't hear you").

Let me clue you on how my my family tree matriculated and evolved....

The way my family tree was constructed was simple. One family led to another by marriage.
Then after awhile of working one tree entering so many children and brothers and sisters I started to get bored with all the data entry of the family. I then begin focusing on one, two or three of the children to follow the tree forward to see where they immigrated to. Then I take the tree in the opposite direction looking for those very early ancestors. As it always turns out I discover new data that always brings me back to the same family tree I had worked on and got bored with. New information always brings with it the motivation to continue working on that family tree again. In that way, the branches thicken as they become filled in with more data. They also become stronger because one is reconnecting into a particular family branch. And, when one does a relationship calculation one will find that the familiarial connection has gone beyond one being a "56th cousin" of fulano de tal. In that same way, Poncio of the Ponce de Leon became my 56th great grandfather because down the line of his family tree connections were made over and over again by my ancestors.

By working Luis Charles Antoine Desaix's tree, I began working from the Ayes ancestor he had in Martin de Ayes and then Aime de Ayes. There is a small gap between those families but they will soon be filled as I discover more data on the people that are missing from that tree. The gap gets filled by Jena de Ayes of the 1400's and another gap is created until D'Anette de Ayes comes into the descendancy. I now have the rough source of the DNA sequences that connect me to Canada and France....(French Canada to be more precise). I know already about those ancestors that populated Saint Augustine, Florida. They worked their way down to Miami and up through Georgia and to Luisiana. I am not really interested in any "extended" family that were born after the middle 1800's. That takes me out of my specialization which is the Medieval age. In school I got bored very quickly as soon as history class got into the industrial age. But the teacher was wise and understood where my interests lie and she had me do special research projects on the ancient Greeks, Romans, Phoenicians etc to show how they influenced the modern world's technology, industry and ways of think and believing. When I moved onto the next level in school my teacher was kind enough to cue the person who was going to become my tenth grade teacher....So it went for me right into high school.

My art and my talent arise from those studies and research into history. I studied Da Vinci and read books on his techniques. Other artists were included. Vermeer, Velasquez de Silva, etc., . At the time I was studying Velasquez de Silva I never realized that he was an ancestor! So, in my viens and genetics vibrate the font for the art. Velasquez and his father in law, Pacheco, passed the art down to my grandfathers and they in turn passed it onto me. There is a specific thought process that comes with the art. Seeing things and situations from many angles beyond the confines of the many boxes we have been taught to work from within. Our freedom comes when we finally come to terms within ourselves to take the steps that liberate from the confines of those boxes. Those boxes each have their own individual tints that speak of the many dislikes and prejudicial thinking we all have for things, organizations and the people that populate them.
Once we step out from within those many boxes we find and discover the deep interconnection we have with all things in this world and with one another. We also find that each one of us contain an intregal part within us that speaks Jewish, Moorish, German, Latin, French, African, Hindi... you name it we have it. The potential also lies in being to see through the eyes of the aformentioned races. That potential I am writing about speaks of the wisdom that one isn't able to transmit via the written and spoken word because it has to be experienced.

We are very powerful beings my friends and family. All we have to do is to open our eyes and thoughts a little to come to really know what I am writing about. To know what all the ancient sages spoke to our ancestors about.

Furthermore, when one looks at those orders, the Calatrava, Alcantara, San Juan de Jerusalem etc,
one is seeing the descendants of the Templars. Ramiro, Berenguer, Sancho, Jiminez, Pedro, etc.,. All belonged to the order of the Templar, but in this case I should be saying, Templier using the French inflection. Remember, France is just a hop and a skip away from northern Spain, Navarre and Portugal. I have maps uploaded onto my family tree that depict the route during the Reconquista. It began in the north and worked its way south.

From where I am sitting, here in the future I can say without a doubt that our ancestors committed a big mistake by initiating the Reconquista. In doing so they delayed the birthing of the rennaisance by several hundred years. Had the Berber - and the Moors and the Spanish found a way to live in peace with one another the rennaisance would have come out of Spain and not Italy. The Arabs and the Berbers had brought with them copies of all those ancient documents that spoke of "advanced" mathematics, architecture, astronomy, chemistry via alchemy etc.,. Many of those were burned during raids and sieges. That knowledge came from ancient Rome and Greece which Cesear and Alexander had brought with them during their conquest of the known lands of their day. As a result our own future has become a little technologically retarded because of the Reconquista. The Templiers never got wiped off the face of the earth. They survived under the King Dinis in Portugal. By the way, I came across records that spoke to me of the burial of Mary Magdalen and Lazarus in Spain. My mother had a stature that spoke of Saint Lazarus during his period of trial. They are were entombed in France where many relics are still there from the time of Jesus. Even the crown of thorns. The image of the reliquery is up on my Tribal Pages.

Pues, I am getting tired from all this writing and thinking. But it flows from me very freely today and I must take advantage of it before I go back to my searching for my ancestors, Clotilde and her brood. Connections have to be made. They solidify and advance my own vision of what is contained within my DNA. Godm there is so much potential there that hasn't been tapped into yet. Perhaps in the next lifetime I will get to know it all. Today's work sets the stage for the future!

Amor en Aime'

John Ayes

Yesterday I found a new Ayes by looking for Aime de Ayes on the French Internet....
They have a French version of Wiki pedia....Waapi pedia...
The Ayes I found were saints. Yes, Saints!

Saint Aye Died 714. Wife, Saint Hydulphi D. 11 July 707. What is interesting is that Hydulphi was family to the Hainaut family. Already I know that family, that branch goes right into a family I have already connected to. Clovis and Clotilde and Charlemagne. So, I will be connecting to the same family tree again, this time via the Ayes. Last time I connected was via the de Silva. As it is unfolding now the Ayes surname and bloodline was just as old as the de Silva! I am getting very close to actually connecting the two Casas together. I feel it in my gut.
From what I am seeing is that the humans within these family groups are traveling in a Mobius type fashion. The traveling goes back and forth, forward and backward, up and down. Its as if I am seeing the many complex twists and turns of the many strands of the DNA chain manifest itself within my ancestral people as they move in and out of families along the path that we call life. The DNA goes stale after awhile until new blood is infused into the family group. Long periods of time pass and then descendants of the founding family group come "back home" to where it all began bringing with them new genetic information and codes to replenish the old founding DNA sequences.