Just 79 matches to do and I have placed 61 into the not used file for various reasons. I can always look at them if they turn up in a search on My Heritage in the future with respect to another match. They have been duly looked at and catalogued.
Another one of those excellent matches - 2nd cousin once removed. A huge match to me as my inheritance was largely Rawlings and Buller tending towards the Rawlings side in the (Cotterill?/Rawlings) link and Taylor in the Taylor/Buller link. I inherited a lot from two great grandmother's it would appear as I put the great grandparents together here and there - Elizabeth Rawlings (I have the look of her hair) and Ellen Taylor (my grandmother's mother) and Grandma did say that I reminded her of her mother and as I think about it one was the colour of my eyes (my blue eye ring). Interesting really what gets passed down in a family.
But this new cousin was a great find when I discovered him a bit ago but the time wasn't quite right for my mind to work on that. He is now slotted into all the databases and the special one (those cousins that I can fit perfectly into the family line - some are second cousins but most are third and fourth with the occasional fifth or even sixth that has large matches mostly because of endogamy). It is actually getting to be quite a large file but that is the five siblings effect. I will put it all together and send it to all my nieces and nephews (and my siblings) so they have it in case they ever want to look at that. My daughters will be the custodians of that information. I am also in the process of producing a medical genealogy which I will share but as a family we are fairly lucky in that regard. Especially I am concerned about the eye defect (neither of my daughters inherited it) and would not like to see a child go without proper care and advances in eye care have moved along quite rapidly lately since I was an infant. One of the people having surgery when I did was a young man who had had one eye done about three or months earlier and was wanting to have the second one done. That was when I was having my second surgery and I did think to myself that my initial desire to have my good eye operated on first but the surgeon deciding to do the weaker first was perhaps the best option and I could have waited longer perhaps but he did feel that it needed operating on. I was amazed at what I could see with that weak eye after a few days actually. It had never really done any work in my recall - truly fitted its common name for strabismus (lazy eye syndrome).
Looking at my eyes like this I am really noticing now that I do not have any eye lashes or eye brows (my vision was 20/25 and 20/30 in my eyes before surgery). I rather think that I did in the past (can see them in pictures) I can not think of any encounters with anything that would eliminate them. Interesting, I do have a tiny amount of eyebrow though just not what I had.
I am suspicious that having a sibling or two and a number of first cousins would also be effective in doing phasing of grandparents and great-grandparents. Since my father was an only child and my mother's only sibling (my uncle) did not have children first cousins did not appear.
An interesting happening making me tea; my usual tea mug split right in front of me when I put the boiling water in. I shall be more conscious of that perhaps when the mug is old. The mug I am now using is a painting from the Sistine Chapel roof namely Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam" fresco. The scene shows God reaching out to Adam, the first man, with his finger, almost touching Adam's fingertip (the moment before the transfer of divine life in the spark of creation as God's index finger comes into contact with Adam's hand). My daughter tried and tried to get me to move on to see the rest of the Museum but I spent more than one hour going from scene to scene. It had just been cleaned a year or so earlier I think and it was majestic. The room packed with people and gradually from the top end the guards slowly moved the people out of the room so that the next group could come in (many did not leave but it was fairer to move on; everyone had come from far away to see what we were seeing). We spent all day in the Museum (the Map Room is magnificent and everything really but it really did stand out in my mind as well) and did think about going back for a second day but it was a very long lineup to get in. It was interesting as on entry they ask for your passport but I said Canada doesn't permit us to use our passport like that would a driver's license do and they accepted that. I am sure they took wonderful care of all of those passports. There were hundreds of them on the table as people just tossed them into the pile. But this was my first passport and my first time off the North American continent and that passport never left me - I even slept with it. I was 56 years old then and my oldest daughter was 27. She was much more relaxed having traveled in Europe before. Although I did try to persuade Edward to come I think he just didn't want to leave his children behind like that and it was mid November. We called him every day just to let him know how we were.
More matches today and hopefully completed early in May. The Kipp Newsletter and the H11 Newsletter are due today as well, the first of May. This was one of the favourite days of both of my grandparents and my father remembered the May Day celebrations in England. They used to dance around the Maypole at his school. It is a beautiful day here although just 3 degrees celsius. But the sun is shining and slowly we are seeing budding in the trees. The daffodils are blooming in their beautiful yellow colour (the ones that survived the fence building) and fortunately it was just the short wood portion.
Thank you God for another beautiful day in this world.
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