Money

  I think what people are saying is right; this may be one of the most important elections in my lifetime although I can think of a few that came at very tumultuous times. Getting it right is very important. I hope everyone votes; that is the gift of a democracy that you get to say what you feel at this time. Money is the big evil really; the desire for it is huge and people want so much of it.

Yesterday was a good accomplishment day in terms of working on the matches. I created a file for unused matches because some of them are incomplete as I know that there are areas where more than one sibling match and if that doesn't show up then they go in the file although I will look at them. For the five siblings not all of the tests were done at the same company that I uploaded to My Heritage. I did an original test at My Heritage. I thought about testing my one brother who is the most different to me but he was not well at the time and it was the middle of COVID when I had such thoughts and he lived a seven hour drive away from me and generally I took the kits to him myself and then sent them in for him. He passed sadly in 2020 so that did not get done and four of the five kits are from different testing labs where they chose their own particular set of markers to test. However, there should still be some similarity and there is for many of the matches but as I said for some no and these I look at and then file for the future as I can look at them again. The object of this re-phase is the books actually. I will begin the generations after I complete the latin documents looking at the early history and some of the matches reach incredibly far into the past and I will be using that information in the book. For instance I have a number of cousin marriages in the Blake line going back into the 1500s resulting in a stronger presence of Blake in matches beyond the sixth cousin although very small so perhaps suspect but none the less interesting. 

I also went for a lovely walk and picked up a few items at the grocery store which included a piece of fresh salmon which was quite lovely. Along with a sweet potato and broccoli, dinner was quite pleasant. That was my weightlifting for the day as the bag was full (freezer bag) including butter, avocado margarine (wonderful stuff), bananas, oranges, and two fresh tomatoes.  I will eat one of those tomatoes today but the plan was to have it with my dinner but I forgot plus I was stuffed anyway. I am still eating my Banana Bread for dessert so that was also enjoyed. The walk both ways comes to about 3 km and it was a couple of degrees above zero degrees celsius so a perfect day for walking. 

Today continuing to work on the matches and sort them into their grandparent line and into my flat excel files and paint them in DNA Painter. Some of the matches are quite spectacular for third cousins with good strong matches between at least one of the five siblings and usually more. Having such a diversity of results between siblings in terms of inheritance has produced matches on every chromosome with no areas not covered by matches. I am very lucky that way with this information which permits me to fully re-create the DNA passed from the four grandparents through our parents to us. Not having any first cousins looked like a limiting ability to do that but in reality the second and third cousins are providing a huge amount of data. 

Must get my tea and then begin.