Down to just 55 matches in my file to be assigned or put into the unused folder. No work on the Newsletters yet but they are in the thought process. Probably should have started that earlier but the election was very distracting. We have two important Canadian dates though now - 12th for the Cabinet and 26th for the opening of this Parliament session to come (27th for the Speech from the Throne). I look forward to King Charles III opening parliament as well and reading the speech from the throne May 27th). Although our Governor General stands in for the King extremely well, it is a good time for the actual Head of State to be here only about 24 hours but will accomplish a huge amount on the world scene for us. Also Question Period once again is an interesting place to be (watching it on television of course). Likely Pierre Poilievre will be in Parliament soon enough as the Prime Minister has said he will speed up the By-election to bring him back. Giving up a seat in parliament was a wonderful gift by MP Damien Kurek to give up his seat so that Pierre can have a by-election to return to parliament. I have to say that Pierre running in the National Capital Region was very brave this time around since tightening up government was certainly in the cards if the Conservatives had won the election. Even though it was his seat for twenty years, it was chancy I think but he is a tough politician and not one to walk away when the cards are stacked against him simply because of current issues.
Today a meeting of the DNA group and I must remember to go (online); it sounds quite interesting. Then work on the newsletters and the matches will take up most of the rest of the day interwoven with exercise and perhaps even a little weeding if it doesn't rain.
A couple of interesting matches yesterday - can not place them in a tree but their matches are so close and they triangulate with those matches. A lot of matches like that can solve stubborn problems on occasion.
Had a request for Edward's tree which I did do as her uncle had also written a bit ago asking some questions which I can not answer as I do not know anything about the recent Kipp families other than what Edward may have said on occasion. If it isn't in his tree which is online at Ancestry I can not actually assist in any way especially if it is American research as I only trained to do English and Canadian research. I did help Edward when we went to American repositories but I just followed his instructions and gathered up the details that he wanted. I have a good memory of the repositories though and do pass that on if asked questions. The Canadian research I really do not do much on as I only have three Canadian born ancestors (my mother, her father, his mother) and all the rest are from six different areas of England (all of which I did visit during our eight trips to the British Isles and Europe). Sometimes not the exact spot but close enough to get a feel for the areas that they grew up in before coming to Canada (some came as children with their parents). My younger sister keeps up a very active tree in the present of all of our cousins, aunts, uncles etc etc and has a very large tree compared to mine. Mine jumped from a few thousand to over twenty thousand but that was the effect of my daughter marrying a French-Canadian and their research is really interesting and very straightforward as one can trace back a line all the way to the founding of Quebec in very short order.
Teatime and solitaire and then must remember the DNA meeting. Probably I am going to row while I watch the meeting. This new tablet is very handy.
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