A check through Gedmatch and in total I found 22 new matches - I already have gleaned this database a number of times and a couple of these I passed by the last time for whatever reason. One excellent one that was a surprise - a good Buller match including the X chromosome which I mentioned yesterday. I decided with the first phasing of the grandparents that I was right about one of my siblings having inherited the entire chromosome for Buller although I didn't really have any conclusive evidence; more negative evidence than positive. But this new match provides even further positive evidence that this is a Buller chromosome inherited from my mother intact from her mother. That is the nice thing about the X chromosome; sometimes it is intact from a parent like the X chromosome passed from a father to a daughter and in my case a Rawlings/Cotterill? chromosome intact from his mother Ada Bessie Cotteril (Rawlings) Blake and my paternal grandmother. But finding one on the maternal side is just a gift that keeps on giving in terms of figuring out the line for Buller actually for the tester. I have been able to break that chromosome down into Welch/Cheatle/Buller/Taylor and pretty much all of it taking me back to my 3x great grandparents.
My eyes have taken this leap ahead once again and the snow in the picture now has an enormous amount of texture and fluffiness. One can only sympathize with a small baby as they learn to see or perhaps they are much quicker because their brain is brand new; no one knows they can not tell us their first year's experience for the most part although both of my children talked quite early and a lot. But when I was working I would always talk to them or read or sing to them so that words were always in their hearing all day long. Their little brains can handle an enormous amount in that first year for sure. But the eyes were a surprise for me because I always thought you were born with fully developed vision and perhaps you are I have no idea but this progress of acquiring depth of vision and clearer vision has been ongoing since the first surgery nearly one year ago now. The second surgery two and a half weeks later completed the task and I have spent the years gaining constantly in my vision. Amazing really. My eyes still do quite fascinate me because I could barely see that blue eye ring before surgery and now when I look it is quite large although the center of my eyes around the pupil remain a speckled brown. So likely I remain brown-eyed as I recall but my close up vision was somewhat limited for whatever reason - it got blurry when I was too close even with my glasses on before the surgery and all of my life.
Today is Sunday; two services once again and I shall soon attend the one at the Cathedral. Last week the sound was poor but it was fun to see the service and I could sing the hymns because I have the bulletin on the website to follow. I did not go to the service in North Yorkshire yet but will a little later. Usually I watch it pretty much first thing but I got working away on the matches and the time flew by and it is nearly time for Church here.
Tomorrow the King and Queen are coming and I shall watch that on television. Hopefully the weather will be good as I am sure there will be many many people downtown to welcome him especially to his country; it is my English upbringing of course but I do think of him as my King in a more personal way than many perhaps because of that 100% English ancestry (with some Huguenot from the 1400s, Scots from the 1400s and maybe some Irish (still working on that as to whether it is Planters from Ireland during Cromwell). But the Irish in the DNA is actually showing areas in other parts of Ireland mostly.
Working through the GEDmatches as I extract mtDNA and any missed material for the other siblings as I collect them one sibling at a time so as not to miss anyone.
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