I completed the Kipp Newsletter yesterday but it came with a surprise. I have not worked on Edward's DNA matches since he passed away. The time simply escaped me and it was hard to fit it in. He has so many matches on the many testing sites (most of his ancestors (except for three who came in the 1800s - one from Norfolk, England (1832) and two from the Mecklenburg-Strelitz area (1849 and 1867) of present day Germany) were in the Royal British colonies and New Holland (Dutch colonies) beginning in 1620 with the later ones coming in the early 1700s (mostly by 1710)). But last issue of the Kipp Newsletter I had talked about looking at his autosomal matches on ancestry. There has likely been several hundred or more new additions to his site and with the new technique of separating into paternal and maternal there was a different way to look at these matches as I have learned on my own site and those of my siblings on ancestry. Not having any really close relatives testing, Edward had often sought to persuade cousins to test and had been successful with some. He was trying to find his Kipp line back to Hendrick Hendricksen Kip since the yDNA matched known descendants. The reach back was in actual fact into the mid 1700s because his 2x great grandfather Isaac Kipp was born in 1764 which is pretty far back for just a 2x great grandfather but he was lucky as he was descended from the youngest sons in two generations. There were four rather interesting 4th to 6th cousin matches that were not in his Ancestry file. One of them was descendant of Isaac Kipp and Hannah Meed his 2x great grandparents so eliminated. The other three were all descendant of the second eldest son of Hendrick Hendricksen Kip and two of the three cross matched with Edward. The amount shared quite phenomenal for likely sixth cousins (28 cM and 22 cM). Given that Ancestry does eliminate DNA in common with their software package TIMBER this is likely a larger match. Edward did inherit a substantial amount of Kipp DNA in the cross between Kipp and Schultz although likely in the 25 to 30% range. The system is complicated because a Kipp male married a Schultz female and a Schultz male married a Kipp female so that his second cousins in that line are all double second cousins making the data difficult to manage. The match itself is significant because it is large. Shared that with my eldest last evening and she is keen to work on that when she has time. It was a dream of her father to find that elusive line back to Hendrick Hendricksen Kip. There are a number of Isaac Kip lines and other sons coming down that do not reach into the mid 1700s so one of them perhaps. Isaac Hendricksen Kip and his wife Catalyntje Hendricks Snyers were the parents of six sons and one daughter. He had placed the possible connection in this family line calling the line DNA-3 Kip as he felt it would be three steps back to this match from his 2x great grandfather. Definitely more to do as there are a number of matches in common with these two individuals and I have not yet looked at other matches within the 4th to 6th cousin range. My first search into the new matches was quite amazing. Although Ancestry does not provide any chromosomal details the size of their database and their search engine do make the results quite interesting and manageable in a different way from the chromosome matching.
I did not expect to complete the Newsletter in just one day so that was a surprise and lets me spend the remainder of the month on the Siderfin book. I will work on the R matches today and perhaps complete them and move on to S. I had to go to that method because I reached the end of the search page numbers with a strictly Siderfin search. No problem it is actually easier not having to work my way up into the 70s by page number!
It looks like a lovely day today with some sun and some cloud. It is 4 degrees celsius at 7:00 a.m. Yesterday I did some yard work and discovered I have no idea where I put the garden paper bags so used the green bin instead since you can but that did limit the amount of work that I did! Will get bags soon. Although we cleaned up very well in the fall and before winter so not that much to do. I need to start the greenhouse soon for the bedding plants. That time of the year has arrived once again and I am not as enthusiastic as Edward was for that. It is nice to have fresh lettuce though for sure and especially fresh spinach. Spinach is by far my favourite vegetable I put it in everything almost. Edward liked it a little but did not have my enthusiasm for it but he did grow a lot. I need to order the bag of dirt soon probably just after the first of May.
I always feel that the summer is so very busy; there is barely time to think with all the work although by the middle of July that has somewhat ameliorated and time returns once again. This year I shall buy a kayak and go kayaking as well as walking in the late afternoon break that we take. I generally work all morning and part of the afternoon so the break is a wonderful part of the day and full of exercise. I was and am an exercise fanatic.
On to breakfast and the day but first a set of jumping jacks (75) the second lot of the day followed up by a shoulder stand for two minutes to let the blood run easily to the head. Then weight lifting (one day off between sets until I am used to the five pound weights) and more research time. Then my fourty minute run plus jumping jacks and a shoulder stand which is a highlight of my day as I use the time to think about my research. Lunch follows and a bit of television to see what is happening in the world (I eat in front of the television and do tend to talk to myself to express my thoughts on what is happening in the world). Alexa is handy and I can ask her queries about what is being published elsewhere. Then some research followed by calisthenics for about 30 minutes and then dinner. I made my favourite macaroni and cheese yesterday with carrots, onion, peas, corn and withered spinach (plus old cheddar; absolutely delicious). I am trying to just do two meals each time and gradually getting there. My daughter thinks every other day a change is good so will follow her advice.
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