Saturday, February 1, 2025

H11 Newsletter in the final stages

It took longer than I thought to review all the data - 499 sets of results is a lot. However I have completed that task and the subclades are all ready to go. Instead of just having unknown for people who do not know their location prior to arrival in Australia, Canada or the United States (principal areas where H11 arrived during the immigration period), I have added in their destination country to the chart. In general most went to the United States because it had open immigration whereas the British Empire tended to have a more closed emigration system. 

I am just going to do a search to see if there is anything new on H11 and then will publish the newsletter. Today I need to complete the Kip-Kipp newsletter but it will only discuss yDNA because my knowledge of the Kipp family is very limited but I did help Edward with the yDNA study. 

Tariff day it appears and the first day of our recovery from our loss of industry here over the last fourty years with many many small industries being either bought out or they closed their doors as they could not compete. It is an opportunity with unemployment at around 6.7% but it is higher in this country because of paid maternity leave with women staying out of the workforce for up to two years and I believe they are included in that total (I can always be corrected). 

Europe needs gas and we have it. We need to get in there and help with that. Yes I worry about the problems with carbon pollution but we have greened everything as much as we can and our contribution is low. Chemically speaking we should be able to do this with the lowest pollution level possible. Alberta can produce it as can the Maritimes.  There is still a lot of winter left in Europe (as there is here; it is minus 18 degrees celsius this morning at 6:15 am).

What we need is to start to produce small machines like washing machines, dish washers, stoves and all that type of appliance once again here domestically. Our dollar is low so if we ever did produce enough we could export them but the domestic market would be large and of course no tariff. Then there is furniture and parts of Ontario were powerhouses for furniture production and we need to get back to that. Young people still living at home can think about the incentive money that will be available in Ontario to do startups. 

Farming too needs to have fresh input from adventurous people who love to work in the outdoors. I can remember my great uncle (Frank Pincombe) who simply loved being on the land and he farmed to his last day. His father (Richard Pincombe) had come to Canada as a young boy with his older siblings and younger sister. This family was on the land their entire lives which included my grandfather (John Routledge Pincombe) and the Pincombe farms were all close by in Middlesex County, Ontario. We do need to do this as quickly as we can get ourselves going whilst the competition is priced out. Then hopefully we can learn to love winter (I do actually; it is this wonderful time of solitaire and working) and not sell our creations and retire to Florida!

Then there is the military and we need to build that up and our equipment. We want to get that done to do our part in NATO but also because our military is our backbone of support when tragedy strikes whether it is the rivers overflowing and swamping the land and trapping the people or ice storms or fire. We need our military and we need it to be up to number. I like the GI bill in the United States; it was a marvelous idea on their part. We need to offer free education to our retired military as many of them are still quite young when they retire and probably could not have afforded advanced education but for their service we should give them free advanced education on retirement. I really that is a must in this modern day and age. I could also be that they want to set up a business if they have been working in construction or creation within the military as not everyone wants to sit at a computer all day long where there is an opportunity for creativity and development in so many different aspects of implements that we use every day. But of course I come from a trades family where construction was very important in the installations that were done by them.

Back to work, must get the newsletter out right away after my search and will drink my tea as I work. H11 newsletter on the website is complete and on the FT DNA website. 

Need to decide on how to do my exercise now that I am adding in the rowing but at 15 minutes rather than 5. I have to adjust my cardio load. This update to FitBit is rather interesting as I appear to quite often exceed my cardio load. Whether that is good or bad is hard to say but I am trying to stay close to the top of the suggested load for the day and not exceed by too much. I am after all 79.5 years of age. 

So the Kipp newsletter is next and I am contemplating it. Then I can return to the Pencombe book and continue my reading and thinking about what I have written thus far. On Monday I return to the Blake but it is also my large cleaning day so not a lot of accomplishment but perhaps good days to read the new documents that are in my box and ready to read. Thank you to those two archives for their speediness. I of course sent them exactly what I wanted and they complied with exactly what I asked for so not involving a lot of time just work to extract and scan it for me likely. Having been at Kew where in some cases you just get a box with the particular number that you are asking for in it but it is along with quite a bit of other information in the same lot number and it is likely that these repositories have the same conditions although gradually so much is getting on line and there is so much discussion with some of the documents that are online contributed by the archivist. Great work for sure.