I started right away with the H11 Newsletter and discovered there were 25 new people since last year. I must keep that up through the year now that the Siderfin Book is done. It did occupy me for a very long time (well just two years). The Blake and Pincombe books I have given them four years each so will make sure that I utilize all that time so as not to feel rushed. I need to go through each one of the new members and assign them to a sub-clade in my database. I try to locate them to a country and many have given me their furtherest back known ancestor and their birthplace which is great. I discovered another match to me whose ancient ancestress was from Scotland so that was pretty interesting. He is able to trace back quite a ways. For myself I know my maternal grandmother, I know of her mother and have estimated who she might be and a note on Ancestry from a member of the family of whom I believe she is descendant and he seemed to think I was correct. He has not tested his mtDNA though so do not have that visible proof. But I will keep the thought in mind and it was nice of him to write to me.
I will continue with the H11 Newsletter today and also begin work on the Kip-Kipp Newsletter. I sort of know what I will be writing there.
I received my first document that I ordered and the second is in process. I think both will be handy looking at the Calne Blake family (with a four year predicted time period I suspect I will be ordering more items as the thoughts come to me or I make discoveries). That is work for later this week. But I have a couple of other items that I am working on so not a rush. The Chapter on the le Blak family of Rouen, Normandy to Wargrave, Berkshire to Calne, Wiltshire has an entire month for its review and addition/deletion. Although at this point in time I believe I will retain the chapter as it has a lot of useful information that I have collected through the years.
The H11 Newsletter will take most of today and part of tomorrow to complete I think but I am pleased at some of the new additions as they continue to point to my original premise that my line was in Scotland for a very long time moving to Northern Ireland during the time of the Commonwealth as Planters and then to England in the Lancashire/Shropshire/Warwickshire area in the mid to late 1700s. Other trees have shown me that there was also a trend for this mitochondrial haplogroup (H11a2a1) to move directly from the Argyllshire/Ayrshire area of Scotland down into Cumberland and then into the Warwickshire area. But that is just one very small part of the H11 haplogroup and this newsletter will look at the 54 sub-clade groups that have emerged in the study. A number of them are fairly localized in their deep ancestry so helpful to the members of the group. There are now 499 members in the group which is a good size for a small haplogroup but I believe that FT DNA has around 5000 tested as H11. I should check on that and will do so one of these days. Time moves very fast in my little world.
I just checked the news and there had been a dreadful collision of a plane and a helicopter over Washington DC. Prayers for the souls of all those who have died and the families of the victims. May God be with the families at this time.
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