Blake Newsletter Volume 5 Issue 1 2016

Blake Newsletter Volume 5 Issue 1 2016

Table of Contents 

1.   Delayed issue

2.   Galway Blake family 
3.   Blake one name study 
4.   Cornwall Blake family 
5.   Family Finder Results

1 Delayed Issue

The busyness of life has resulted in my actually forgetting to post this issue of the Blake Newsletter. Happy New Year to all readers albeit a somewhat delayed good wish. Not being prone to having New Years Resolutions I should perhaps consider having the newsletter always be on time as one perhaps. This Volume #5 will continue on as the earlier 4 volumes with just the two pages unless I receive items to put in.

2 Galway Blake Family

After the first of April I shall return once again to working on the Galway Blake Family. A bout of illness through November and December made me rethink my priorities and I decided I simply had to draw my own family history together and publish books on myself, my parents, my grandparents, etc. That way all my information would be gathered together in one place along with all the pictures that I have from these earlier generations. In my own case I felt that descendants of my parents reading through my notes is unlikely and so my history was written of nearly 900 pages thus far including many many pictures. I am still in that process which is why it will be the first of April before I return to active one name study research.

3 Blake one name study

No new information on the Blake one name study other than new members in the DNA study most of whom are testing Family Finder. Personally I think this is the way ahead in the future for family research although the yDNA test for the male line will always be the most important DNA test to do.

4 Cornwall Blake family

The Cornwall Blake family continues to be a question mark in my mind. I can not decide if I should publish what I have found or simply store it along with the rest of the one name study material. No one has tested their yDNA that can trace their Blake line back to Cornwall. 

5 Family Finder Results

I continue working on a method to display Family Finder results. Only a sufficient number of individuals in my own line have tested Family Finder so that such a display at the moment would not be helpful to the project. 

Any suggestions or information to add to the next newsletter please submit to: kippeeb@rogers.com

52 Ancestor Challenge

I do not have enough time at the moment to carry on with the 52 Ancestor Challenge. I will begin again in 2017 with the same group. I want to write this year on my own family lines. I do intend to return to transcription in April on my one-name studies.

Decision Time

I have made a decision that I will step back from my one name studies for a couple of months. I have a couple of projects that I simply want to do and the one name studies do not add anything to those projects. I will maintain the yDNA study and answer correspondence as it works in. I am owing a few emails at the moment but I will not carry out any more one name study research for the  moment. I will return to it in April.

I have one commitment to help with a workshop on DNA the 30th of January and I am starting to prepare those slides but other than that my focus is on writing the story of my family as I  know it. I have actually completed my own story to the present although need now to go back in and add the "personal part" that I can find in my correspondence to my mother for over 15 years and other correspondents namely my cousin Ivan in England over a twenty year period and my Great Aunt Sarah for about five years. I have both sides of correspondence with my mother as she returned my letters to me.

All the Best of the New Year to everyone. I will continue with the 52 ancestor challenge although perhaps the detail will be added where missing over the year particularly for the French Canadian ancestors as I need trips to Library and Archives Canada to flesh out that information.

Happy New Year

New Year's resolutions and this is something I have never really done so probably will not start now.

However, I do intend to have this next workshop/lecture my last one.

Other than that I plan to do my 52 Ancestor Challenge starting on Monday.