Nearly finished the extractions from FT DNA in terms of new individuals but will have to go in and collect the information for the other siblings matches although that will be quicker. There are 45 new ones that I have never looked at in the past four years plus. A few are quite interesting. None of them are really large and mostly 3rd to 4th cousins with a couple of second cousins which are larger matches.
Today is cleaning day and it is the top floor so will be doing that in a bit. It is also just 6 degrees celsius as the cold weather returns for a bit. The first hot spell of the summer has come and gone and with it the dandelions are slowly dying down. The lawns need cutting and that will probably be my first venture although not today but soon. The dandelions were beautiful this year and listening to the bees contentedly working the flowers was music to my ears. Nature is beautiful and we need to let it determine the flow some days of the year especially in the spring.
The Prime Minster has represented us very well in Europe once again. He has the contacts and we will see how that carries us forward these next few months. I do want to see shovels in the ground for that pipeline sooner rather than later. This is good building season and we should be taking advantage of it. It always takes so long to get things going; too long. So on to the pipeline soon!
The new Pope certainly follows his predecessor very completely and that is good to see. I liked Pope Francis and I am sure I will also like Pope Leo IV. I will always remember being in St Peter's Square and the Pope blessing the crowd. Being the Anglican I am I do see the Pope as the head of the Christian Church on earth. But I also know that my Anglican Church is very ancient to the British Isles and our excommunication was due to political events that were beyond the control of my ancestors to change without creating a difficult situation with regard to Queen Elizabeth I. I completely support the decision to support the Queen and accept excommunication from the Church of Rome. But I know that the Church of England has its roots deeply into the Isles long ago with the Celtic Church followed by the Celtic Christian Church and God loves us just as he loves all the peoples of the world. That is what is important to me. I wonder sometimes how much truth there is to the family lore that the early peoples of the British Isles were members of one of the Lost Tribes of Israel. When one crosses the veil; one knows then and that secret of the ages is revealed. I just think that those early Western Hunter Gatherers had a vision of God in their minds as they set forth across the Isles to start a new life 8,000 to 12,000 years ago. It is exciting to contemplate how much we have learned about Homo sapiens with the advent of DNA into our lives.
So cleaning but first breakfast and solitaire puzzles are already done. My beginning of the day is complete and now I just have to carry that forward. Yoga next and then breakfast. In between cleaning bouts I shall do more extraction of FT DNA results for the fifth sibling (almost done). Then the extraction of the other matching siblings for the new results and I can move on to Living DNA and Gedmatch. Not sure of the order yet as a foray into Gedmatch showed me that it has been quite a while since I looked at that database as well. I also need to think about the Kipp Newsletter - I am very late with it this month. I also need to create the separate grandparent pages in Ancestry for Rawlings, Pincombe and Buller; only Blake has been set up but still needs some massaging to make it effective as a tool looking at the phasing. I do want to complete the great grandparents this time as well. The wills too are in my mind and will probably work on those on the non-cleaning days.
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