Journeys: Earthly Migrations of a Family

By Archie Stanley

Journeys is the result of a Grandfather’s desire to provide his grandsons a reference book of their Family heritage and history. Stanley uses Family migrations that take place across the earth to document the origin of many life sustaining skills of rafting, boating, sailing, animal and agriculture domestication, shepherding, military mobile artillery strategy, and basic astronomical observation and navigation. He hopes the book will inspire future Family members to continue the tradition by writing future chapters and volumes to continue and further document our Family Heritage, present their theories of historical mysteries, and tell further Family stories. Stanley explains to his grandsons that Journeys is part fiction, with literary liberties taken and so noted, to tell stories about their ancestors so that they may know their Family heritage better and provide them with an idea of how we may have evolved as a Family in this miraculous life that we are experiencing on earth. Stanley takes the reader back to the very beginnings of life on earth. He journeys from that beginning fictionally through time and human evolution, to the very start of our human life and imagines what our world was like during those earliest beginnings. This beginning and the subsequent migrations of human life are based upon the traces of DNA charting developed by the National Geographic Magazine Genome Project for the Paternal and Maternal sides of Stanley’s Family. Stanley ends with an imagined trek into possible future Family journeys. Packed with photos, images and professional illustrations throughout, Journeys offers a visual perspective of how everyday evolution may have shaped us; presents real maps from Google Earth documenting detailed migration pathways; and showcases treasured portraits of ancestors and photos of homesteads, and the complete National Geographic Magazine genome project developed for the Author’s genealogy. The maps, photos, and professional illustrations bring vibrant perspective, bold reality, and resounding life to Journeys. Journeys offers many things to many people: An everyday presentation of the principles of evolution; a hands on treatment of DNA trace science; a study of earth and universe sciences with some unique theories thrown in; Family values of morality and ethics; everyday genealogy; practical descriptions of tool development; and the perseverance of a few individuals who saw to the survival of our species. Stanley’s love of history and science is coupled with genealogy and his love of Family. It is a summary of our history and his hopes for our future. It is historical fiction meshed with historic fact, transporting the reader to places beyond, through the art of story-telling. Stanley has already started work on writing a sequel of additional stories of fictional Family journeys exploring other vast regions of our earth including recent archaeology discovery regions that seem not to be in accordance with the NGM DNA general human traces. He also anticipates the last volume of the trilogy pulling together Family observations of the journeys of the first two volumes and presenting an exciting human prehistory of earth based upon the Family observations as well as indisputable evidence that exists before our eyes. Prepare yourself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Release date: May 6, 2016
• ISBN: 9781478773962

Archie Stanley

Archie Stanley has a lifetime of experience in mapping, geography, geology, mathematics, and science. He applies these disciplines and skills to studying genealogy, evolution, ancient civilizations, and human cultures; and he bases the stories of his ancestors' journeys upon the facts of his research and conclusions. Stanley lives with his extended family in Canal Winchester, Ohio.

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This is a work of fiction. The events and characters described herein are imaginary and are not intended to refer to specific places or living persons. The opinions expressed in this manuscript are solely the opinions of the author and do not represent the opinions or thoughts of the publisher. The author has represented and warranted full ownership and/or legal right to publish all the materials in this book.

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Earthly Migrations of a Family

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Contents

Foreword

Section I: Fiction

Chapter One: The Big Bang

Chapter Two: First Exodus

Chapter Three: Leaving Africa

Chapter Four: Second Exodus

Section II: Actual Genealogy, and Pets, and Ancestors’ Graves

Chapter Five: From Warriors to Sirs

Chapter Six: Grandparents’ Families

Chapter Seven: Poppy’s and Gruggy’s Parents’ Families

Chapter Eight: Gruggy’s Young Life

Chapter Nine: Poppy’s Young Life

Chapter Ten: Gruggy and Poppy Together

Chapter Eleven: Friends and Family

Chapter Twelve: Closing

Chapter Thirteen: Forever in Our Hearts

Chapter Fourteen: Forever in Our Hearts

Section III: Future

Chapter Fifteen: Future

Reference Appendix

Afterword

Reference Notes

Foreword

Athens County Engineer Office and Garage Building 2012

I began writing these first words on January 7, 2013. As I look back on that day, it was the first day of the rest of my life. It was the day of transition after I lost my re-election campaign for Athens County Engineer. Thirty-three years of my life were summed up in a resounding political defeat. I was insecure, anxious, and in uncharted waters. I wasn’t accustomed to losing. I had enjoyed several victories. I was a multi-tasking, relatively smart, driven, successful, accomplished person. In one primary campaign cycle, it seemed like many of my professional accomplishments were washed away. Politics was never my strength. I had stood on my tangible accomplishments, on the manner in which I had conducted myself, and on my integrity and honesty. I thought my professional character and proven production were what mattered, but Athens County had changed. It had become less about what you had done and more about who you knew, how loud you were, and how many Facebook likes you could get. Politics, in this reality-TV new world of ours was ugly, and simply put I refused to partake in it. The world was upside down.

My bargaining unit employees, whom I had treated with such high regard, were absent, silent, and in fact worked against my re-election. Some true friends remained, but other lifelong friends simply vaporized, or in a few cases even worked against my re-election. I realized my supporters had become few. Where were the Sunday Creek Valley and core Athens area voters who had always shown up in strength for me? As I looked for answers as to where they all went, I realized many of them were older, not in good health, and many were gone. Very few were socially networked on Facebook or Twitter. My supporters were the silent un-networked minority in a campaign driven by new-age, twenty-four-hour per day news cycles and social media. Stanley Works had been destined for failure for the first time. It was a convincing defeat. I persevered, completed my elected term, did my job, accepted my destiny, walked away, and never looked back.

The day before I began writing, you three grand-boys came to visit me on my last day as Athens County Engineer. It felt like a loss that day…like I was grieving for a life that I would never have again--forced out of a home I had helped to build. After all, those buildings I helped to be there by arranging the sale of the former Engineer’s Office and Garage Buildings. The former property at 555 East State Street was a prime commercial plot of land in the City of Athens; the sale yielded a nice price. Using only the old property sale proceeds, and no highway or bridge revenue to create the new office and garage buildings at 16,000 Canaanville Road, was an accomplishment! As Athens County Engineer for thirty-three years, I had helped to replace or rehabilitate 230 bridges, rebuild many miles of highways, and build the new office and garage buildings. I had helped create a computerized mapping and information system for Athens County called a Geographic Information System. Also, I had been chosen by my nine other Local District County Engineers to represent them on the Executive Policy Board of the Ohio Association of County Engineers, and later, I was chosen by the other eighty-seven Ohio County Engineers as Ohio County Engineer of the Year. Yet, despite those significant accomplishments, the facts didn’t matter. Slander and gossip had replaced value and accomplishment. I was disappointed, surprised, and let down. I remember telling the bargaining unit guys that I worked with, Guys, I hope you get exactly what you want. Sometimes people have it so good, they think they are entitled to more. Indeed they got exactly what they wanted. I always did right by my employees and in fact, the main reason I ran for that last term was to protect their interests and ensure that they were treated fairly. Their part in my defeat enabled me to have no regrets in leaving my post.

As it turned out, that loss was the best thing that ever happened to me! I realized, after some time and healing, that I had worked as Athens County Engineer out of my sense of duty to Athens County and my employees. The campaign was the messenger that shined a light on the dark places and dark people that were faking their friendships in my life. It really exposed who and what was important to me, and gave me purpose to better define and appreciate those things in my life. It turned out that it was I who had gotten what I wanted, even though I did not realize that I wanted it. What blossomed out of that storm was my new life here on Mason Road in Canal Winchester, together with my family. I gained a lot more time for my mom, you boys, your homeschooling, our pets, our pool paradise, lantern festivals, Friday night pizza parties, and writing Journeys. I got all the things that I love, and everything that I valued most--and zero regret for leaving Athens County. Now was my time, my happiest time, my time to do what I loved, to soon be with you every minute of the rest of my life!

Out of that sense of realization, this book was born. It is all of me, wrapped up in one package: my love of history and science coupled with genealogy. It is a summary of our history and my hopes for your future. Journeys has the elements of historic fact, transported to places beyond, through the art of storytelling.

So it was that I came to write down my thoughts, along several lines inspired by my own experiences and observations, for you Canyon, Cole, and Cooper to have and to read as you wish and to hopefully assist you in some way along your lives together. As an adult now, I so wish I could go back and talk with my grandparents with my current understanding of historic context. How much has been forgotten, misplaced, or lost forever to the silence and vastness of history? I want to capture here for you everything I know about our family and history, so that someday, you won’t have to wonder what Poppy did or thought, you can just read it.

So come along with me. I will take us on a journey into our family history and heritage and document a few family anecdotes and stories passed down along the way. I hope some of what I have learned and think will be of some benefit to you boys as you experience life and remember how very much I love and adore each of you. Always remember…

…family first…

Team Reed at Hilton Head 2014

Cole Jon Canyon Dannielle Cooper

Canyon, Cooper, Cole

The guys I write (and live) for, and would gladly die for

Cole, Cooper, Canyon

Cole, Cooper, & Canyon Stanley Reed

Canyon Stanley Reed

Cole Stanley Reed

Cooper Stanley Reed

Section I

Fiction

Based Upon Science, History, and National Geographic Magazine’s Genome Project DNA Trace.

{Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4}

Written for Canyon, Cole, and Cooper in the spirit of science and history and based upon my DNA traces by National Geographic Magazine’s Genome Project.

Once upon a time…

BANG

Universe Illustration

Chapter One

The Big Bang

13,800,000,000 Years Ago

The vastness of geological time is impossible to comprehend, and so we will follow timelines that are not to scale. We will start at our very life beginnings and imagine what our world was like during those earliest of times, and evolve into our early human selves and begin tracing our imagined (based upon my actual DNA traces done by National Geographic Magazine of my mother and father’s genetic lineage (1)) family genetic footprints as they trace our migrations slowly across the face of the earth. In Section I, we will follow my National Geographic Magazine Genome Project DNA maps (See the Reference Appendix on NGM Analysis and migration maps) closely and trace our way home from Africa to North America and Athens County, Ohio and describe how our family came together. In Section II we will detail and document our actual family genealogy including precious photographs that freeze moments in time experienced by our family members. Section III presents two possible future scenarios for Homo sapiens sapiens as food for thought.

So much of our actual history happened millions of years before our recorded history. The timeframes I present in the fictitious stories herein are rough estimates. My stories are not factual, but instead are my own speculation based upon my factual research over the years. This book, Journeys, is written for you, my three grandsons Canyon, Cole, and Cooper, to provide some answers from me as well as our ancestors to questions that may come up in your future. I love you, my wonderful grandsons Canyon, Cole, and Cooper!

An immensely long time ago, our incredibly large, expanding, evolving universe was born. Ingredients for all of our lives, how we came to be and evolve, where we lived, who we were, and who we are, were part of that birth. Is our universe all there is? Are the lives we know of all there are? Perhaps we or our descendants will never know the answers to these questions. We as a species have the ability to wonder, explore, and discover, and so we have and will. So let us begin at the only beginning that we currently know of and journey forward in time from there…

Our Journey Begins

Tracing Our Family Roots

From Their Very Beginnings

Scientists agree that thirteen billion, eight-hundred million years ago, our universe was formed from a rapid expansion of space, apparently from a single point location. This was not an explosion pushing everything out of the way, but an instant expansion of space itself from nothing to something. The thinking that concludes in this concept is the fact that the matter of our universe seems to be accelerating away from a single very small and very dense suddenly and continuously expanding mass point -- a singularity.

I personally imagine our universe as consisting of consumables and consumers at all levels, from the smallest quantum to the largest multi-galactic regions, and having a very dense core/black hole (actually a black sphere) where the spent matter of our universe is returned from its outer leading edges of travel. The matter/energy falls back from the unrelenting gravitational force of the black sphere, eventually traveling faster than the speed of light and therefore as dark matter/energy as it nears and enters the black sphere horizon. Once there, the dark matter/energy is further accelerated as it travels through the black sphere horizon and dense core, and emerges (dark matter/energy is the only thing that can exit a black sphere) from the black sphere, still traveling faster than the speed of light as dark matter/energy, eventually slowing due to the force of gravity of the black sphere to less than the speed of light, and so at that time becoming visible matter/energy that constitutes the very source and continued visible expansion of our universe.

The dual dark in, visible out consumables/consumers/organism, pumping/pulsing concept of our universe is also the very life-renewing concept of every black hole/point source within every galaxy of our universe. The constantly renewed invisible black matter/energy into visible matter/energy through entering and emanating from every combination black sphere/point source in our universe is the eternal source of re-energized atoms that are continually re-processed by stars and scattered throughout our universe as life giving and sustaining materials. Each black sphere in our universe is a natural power plant that is constantly vacuuming, re-energizing, and returning matter/energy for use by the life-ingredient-producing stars.

From the consumable/consumer/organism, pumping/pulsing of our universe and galactic black sphere/point sources, to our human bodies breathing and pumping, consuming and being consumed, to the breathing and pumping of the smallest organisms and cells, to the breathing and pumping of atoms and sub-particles; aren’t they all a part of what we define as the movement of living?

Experts say that after a long cooling period, galaxies--including our Milky Way and other celestial mega-formations--were brought together by forces of gravity exerted by the visible and invisible mass particles generated by the rapid expansion of space.

BAM

Four Billion Years Ago

Moon Formation Illustration

Four billion, six hundred million years ago, scientists say that our solar system was brought together into a swirling disc, relatively smaller than but very similar to galactic formations, by forces of gravity gathering dust particles, forming larger conglomerations of mass, and finally through collisions of the larger and larger masses, the planets and moons were formed--a process that continues today. The sun was formed, they say, by super-hot nitrogen gases coalescing through the force of gravity at the center of the swirling disc…

…coincidentally not unlike, but seemingly rather opposite from the formation of black spheres. Therefore, I wonder if the stars of our universe are not the celestial antitheses of the black spheres of our (or another) universe, pumping out the renewed matter/light ingredients of life from the spent ingredients gathered by the black spheres. Observed from opposite frames of reference, could not these two celestial opposites be one and the same? Are stars and black spheres really the same invisible (or dark) in, visible (or light) out natural pulsing/pumping power plants of our universe? Could these life-sustaining, dual-functioning star / black sphere natural power plants be simultaneous opposite singularities or dualities or even multities? Could not these seemingly opposite (or multiple) frames of reference be the source of universe/anti-universe, or multi-verse concepts?

Four and a half billion years ago, our earth was formed by the largest masses in nearby space mutually attracting each other, and the resulting collisions created an initially extremely hot, molten planet. Cooling eventually allowed the crust of the earth to form, but the center today remains molten, with a coalesced center core of iron. The boiling molten lava expanded through weak areas of the crust and volcanoes spewed out gases forming our atmosphere. No oxygen existed on earth.

The still mostly molten earth experienced, soon after formation, a giant impact from a large cosmic body even older--according to NASA--than earth, and one-fourth (actually 0.27) of earth’s diameter. The cosmic body struck the earth at an offset from its center, which saved earth from total explosion devastation and also slowed the smaller cosmic body enough that it was captured as our moon in near-earth orbit.

My theory is that the collision apparently took place in the area of today’s Pacific Ocean. The glancing collision must have added considerably to one side of the mass of the cosmic body, by molten earth material adhering to that side of it. The adhered molten material cooled and seems to have formed the high mountains on the far side of the moon. The Pacific Rim has never healed from this early collision, and remains today the major reason for the instability of that entire portion of the earth’s surface.

Scientists say that the angle of the smaller cosmic body’s collision with earth permanently changed the earth’s spin axis and orbit out of the sun’s equatorial plane. The period of rotation and the revolution of the moon are the same, so that we on earth always see the same side of the moon, except for very small crescent areas at each edge of the moon that alternate being visible from earth corresponding to when the orbiting moon is closest to and farthest from earth. The center of the moon is tethered to the center of the earth by the invisible force of gravity.

I contend that the fact that the same side of the moon (except for the alternating crescent areas noted above) always faces the earth is logically understandable: The extra mountainous material on the far side of the moon weights the slowly rotating moon so that the centripetal force from the gravity tether keeps the mountainous side of the moon remaining away from the tethering force of gravity.

Much later, other cosmic collisions further altered the spin axis of the earth. Archeology has proven that at the end of this long period of time the first signs of life on earth had emerged and began to evolve, 3.8 billion years ago.

Life Is Beginning

Self-Directed Motion/Movement

Primeval Pool, Lake Baringo Wetland /Island,

Rift Valley, Kenya, Africa

Three billion, eight hundred million years ago, the atmospheric oxygen level on earth was increasing from volcanic release of entrapped oxygen in earth’s molten core and photosynthesis from newly evolving plant life, which made our oxygen-dependent lives possible. Our family members existed as or were evolving from combinations of sub-atomic particles, atoms, fungi, algae, eukaryotes, bacteria, plants, DNA, RNA, ribozymes, proteins, enzymes, and molecules.

These tiniest substances were the beginning ingredients of life on earth. Think initially of life’s beginnings as being defined as motion where before there was no motion, and later as self-directed motion. Think about the seemingly perpetual motion of electrons moving around (orbiting) a static nucleus, and compare that to the motion of a cell in relation to the cell’s nucleus, and compare that to the motion of our body’s organs and limbs in relation to and directed by our nucleus (brain). Compare that to the motions of swarms of bees, colonies of ants, flocks of birds, or schools of fish and their intra-communicated mass simultaneous self-directed motions. Compare that to the perpetual motion of our planets orbiting around the sun, and compare that to the motion of the swirling arms of our galaxy around the enormous, central black hole at the galaxy’s center. Finally, think of the motion of our galaxy swirling around and among the other galaxies, and all of the galaxies continually expanding from the center of our universe.

All of these complex organized systems, from the smallest particle to the largest galaxy, seem to be evolving organisms exhibiting self- (or cooperatively mutual) replication, self-directed motion, and are subject to natural selection and are infinitely related to the rest of the universe as the smallest particle being a distinct part of the infinitely larger universe--and at the same time that very smallest particle actually also being itself an intergalactic system encompassing infinitely smaller organisms.

The larger logical question that needs further study here is: Are the mechanics of the smallest particles the same as or at least related to the mechanics of the largest intergalactic systems of our universe? The answer perhaps to this logical but perplexing question is the key to the thus-far unanswered quantum mysteries of our time: Are the functions of the smallest parts of our world as described by quantum mechanics and the functions of the largest parts of our world as described by general relativity related or the same, and if so, how? My thought is that they are, and they define the ultimate circle of life of our universe, with the very largest mechanical systems being related or the same as the very smallest mechanical systems, and likewise, the smallest systems being in turn the largest systems for the next smaller quantum, and so forth infinitely; while at the same time the largest systems being in turn the smallest systems for the next larger quantum, and so forth infinitely. Perhaps the differences that we have observed between these two systems are born of different frames of reference and nothing else.

Next, imagine a single cell as noted above as an organism containing DNA in the nucleus, beginning the self-directed motion necessary to replicate itself by splitting into two identically structured cells, but with a wireless connection remaining upon replication as a continuum between the two distinct cells. The two cells then become four cells, then sixteen cells, and so forth, each newly replicated cell retaining the wireless connection among all the newly replicated and original cells and retaining a