I have slotted in today as a newsletter day and will try to keep to that. I do like to have a regular schedule for the newsletters and this time there are two due - H11 and Kip-Kipp. The H11 I only produce once a year at the moment although that could change this year we will see. The Kip-Kipp is published four times a year but is a new addition since my husband passed away and I decided I should publish what I find in his records that he hasn't published or hasn't published in a way that is more permanent.
Yesterday I worked on my ancestry matches - I do try to keep them up to date but another three months has passed since my last update into my Ancestry atDNA database. I am looking at it these days and with all the new matches in the last couple of years it had grown enormously. I am contemplating cutting out the good matches (i.e. over 25 cM - remembering that they do use TIMBER on their matches) that occur across all four of us and might be handy. On the other hand; sometimes I am the only one matching (I am the outlier in the family) and their matches do exist but are small - so I need to think about that aspect as well since these matches have been interesting. But for this set I will continue down to 21 cM for each match in terms of selecting matches for the database. There are 26 new matches with seven being over 25 cM and I am just now seeing if there is more than one chromosome length in the match. There are often trees and I can see where we are related giving further proof of the strength of my tree without actually knowing where we are related. Because I have so many other matches in databases where the match is known I can visualize where we are likely matching but in essence it doesn't matter. Surprising really and Ancestry provides such an easy way to create your tree and correspond that it is useful without the actual data. That isn't to say though that having the data is actually something I would pay an enhanced membership to have for sure.
I had one thought whilst I was cleaning away and that was we do appreciate having the United States as our first trading partner for everything. But selling more of our oil outside of that sphere would be an enormous benefit to us especially at full price since we give the United States a discount (and other products too); we could even go back to refining oil as we did before the refineries were bought out by Americans as I recall back years ago (that would be a better use of federal monies - helping to support such a venture). I continue to dislike the way that the Liberals tend to just throw money at it and hope that it sticks. It did not work well during the pandemic and cooler heads must prevail and ensure that the money is spent in a way that benefits the economy because that is what will suffer. Canadians are resilient and can make do with what we have stored to eat this winter and local produce. The symbiotic relationship between the United States and Canada has been strong through many years now and we both have prospered. What is the aim really to upset the apple cart? Our dollar trading low means that our exports are more affordable around the world and we will increase our trade in that way. But trading as we have been in a north - south pattern has benefited so many of the states as well as us (but has created provincial barriers which restrict our trading between the provinces/territories). We have many businesses that are Jewish that tariffs will also hurt; our Jewish community is large especially in Quebec and Ontario which would be amongst the hardest hit by tariff. Do the ultra wealthy make money on this weakness that is created; is that the reason? Sad really as they make their money on the backs of the citizens of the countries wherein they operate whether they run a company or just sit on the stock market (and they are the biggest users of the facilities of any country because they can afford it (private airplanes amongst other things like the protection offered by the federal government)). They should have more respect for the people of the country where they are making their money. It is the regular person who will be most damaged by tariff because the profits of that venture will go into the treasury and support tax cuts which are huge for the ultra rich and minimal for the lower income earners. Just my thought on a busy day. Money is what Jesus said - evil in the wrong hands and should be used to help all people in a country in a reasonable way and not taken away by restrictive measures. Because companies always seek profit they do not want to lose the customer base that they have currently and going international always increases the customer base (unless harm is done to the base by tariff). But has money become an industry in itself with crypto - interesting.
So tea is finished, solitaire puzzles to play and then breakfast.
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