I continued with my matches and thinking about the two newsletters. Success on the matches as they are now down to 44 remaining. A couple of interesting ones that will contribute to the phasing project. One area never covered before and I know the grandparent line but not the family that is the ancestral line of the match. But the location makes sense.
A really interesting lecture yesterday at the DNA group. A self made project looking at E-DNA from the prospective of what can one find in various ponds in a particular place (namely Carp just north east of Ottawa proper). I was curious if he had found subtle differences in the DNA within a species but decided not to ask questions but rather just listen. He has expanded his initial project to include some university students working on their advanced degrees as anything related to DNA is future fodder for growth for sure in terms of jobs. Probably my biggest interest way back in my university days was the emerging information on DNA and I did continue reading the literature as it slowly increased through the years and then burst upon the scene in the 1990s with the beginnings of personal testing of DNA in hominids and the result has blossomed into a financial empire that is heavily used by genealogy (and others) in the pursuit of knowledge. Certainly way back in my youth I did wonder what we could learn from our DNA from a medical standpoint and as we enter that phase of scientific research it is an open book waiting to be written for sure with a lot of literature already in the journals.
I also spent about half of an hour picking up the smaller branches that have come down from the trees during the winter. That will be another bag out to the street this week once they are broken up - no axe this time, just fingers.
Sunday, God's day, and it is meant to be cloudy today with a temperature of 6 degrees celsius at the moment; a pretty normal May Day here in this part of Canada. Church is online at my own Church here and at Winchester. I shall attend both of them. Christ Church at Winchester is a fairly modern Church built in 1859 - 61 according to their website. We visited the Cathedral Church at Winchester on one of our tours. Our tour bus parked some blocks away and we walked to the area. I knew what the Cathedral looked like but the roots of the Church are fairly old. The present building was constructed starting in 1079 and completed in 1532. It is very large and is dedicated to Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Swithun as the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity. The style is gothic although not overpowering partly because it sits in a small valley as I recall and as one walks towards it the size does continue to amaze you as it literally grows out of the ground it appears. The first Church in Winchester dates back to 164 CE. This is the Mother Church of the Diocese that includes Andover/Upper Clatford so I had heard stories about Saint Swithun and the Mother Church from childhood. There is a beautiful shrine there to Saint Swithun. But the service today is at Christ Church in Winchester and will be I am sure welcomed. The accent in Hampshire remains the same as my grandfather's - almost none really to a Canadian ear perhaps or I was just used to it as a child. My father did not have an accent other than what I heard around me every day. He said when he first came to Canada with his parents (mother actually father came first about six months earlier) he did have the slight accent that my grandfather had but it disappeared and he sounded like everybody else around him although they were primarily English as London, Ontario was pretty much English when I grew up there but it was changing - one of our neighbours was from Trois Rivières and the children spoke French. It was the first time I was ever really learning the French Language as I babysat those children as a mother's helper. the children did not speak English at all and I think that she wanted them to but they were stubborn so I learned some French when I was doing that particular task.
Thank you God for the beautiful day before us. Tea time completed, solitaire games played.
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