A warmer day in Ottawa today but the nights are still pretty chilly. Hopefully not too much longer before the hydro is back up again for the about 200,000 customers which could mean half a million people or more. Ontario is a large province (the largest population in a province/territory in Canada of approximately 16 million people). But that is actually good news because there are more people going to the other provinces now since the population of Canada is 41.5 million. Everyone coming here just wanted to go to Toronto and it is just too big now.
My eyesight has taken another small leap as the ceiling has become so much deeper (i.e. it just looked flat before although I knew that it was a "popcorn" ceiling) to the eye, the little blobs of plaster are so much more distinct than they were right after my poor eye cleared from the first surgery. The really big item I noticed before surgery was the sun in March; I used to hate going out in March the last maybe ten years even with sunglasses because the sun was so strong. But that has disappeared amazing really what cataract surgery does for a person. No migraines either which is a treat. I always get this period of maybe four or five days when my eyes feel strained and then suddenly I am seeing even better. Perhaps that is how an infant's eyes develop who knows; they cannot tell us.
Good progress on the matches and I am into sorting them into my various files, painting the matches in DNA Painter and preparing my "known" matches for re-phasing my grandparents and then working on my great grandparents. It will take a while to work through these more than 300 new matches that I have acquired since 2020. I have not collected the matches in FT DNA for a while, never collected them in Living DNA until yesterday I had a look (extracted one) and of course we no longer can collect that data in 23 and Me. There isn't any data in Ancestry either but I do use Ancestry differently with a lovely flat excel file of the matches for the five siblings side by side and it includes the information on the known matches. They are colour coded by grandparent line as well as a line of text stating the most recent common ancestor. I have extracted just over 1000 matches from my kit and the kits of three of my siblings. Now that there are so many I may separate out the four grandparent lines into sub-files as the information is useful - many people test at more than one site and the trees on ancestry are quite interesting. All of this looking at phasing/re-phasing does play a role in my book writing as I reached the point where I would begin the generations although I am back in both books writing early history as I read the documents that I have acquired through the years in Latin. My Latin really has come a long way although it is still difficult to read the old text. I did do a small chapter on autosomal DNA in the Siderfin Book just to link all the families together coming down from Robert Siderfin and Elizabeth (Question) Siderfin. I have not looked at the female lines coming down from the cousins of this Robert Siderfin. I will leave that to another - that was a lot of concentration on a 3x great grandmother (Elizabeth (Betty) Siderfin who married John Rew 30 Jan 1792 at Selworthy, Somerset and their daughter Elizabeth (a twin) married John Pincombe 9 Jan 1834 at Bishops Nympton, Devon.
So today more matches to assign. I must get out the paper recycling as this is the day.
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