Cleaning easily accomplished yesterday morning and I was back to the matches in the afternoon. I have completed the 4th page of 50 and the next four pages will be a pick and choose beginning with 1 segment and working up likely not collecting anything beyond 2 segments but will check the 3s as there may be some plus it can be a correction point with the last sibling results worked in where I could not choose one of the four grandparents but had two (and that has proven to be the case as the morning is passing). Then just the last sibling to do completely. I did not work on the phasing charts yet as I am still working out the crossover points and that will take a bit of time - no rush. I already have two sets of crossover points that are pretty much the same (Gedmatch and 23 and Me). Hoping that 23 and Me goes back to providing the DNA details and time will tell when this new company takes it on. I realize that their aim will be research but I have no objection to that - DNA will rule medicine in the years to come. Our lives are already changing because we now know if we need to avoid some things because our genetic complement doesn't allow for trangressions into things like smoking and drinking, excess eating etc. That will control our lives in the future for sure as we become a more disciplined people. Actually that is one of the things I like about Prime Minister Carney - he is a very disciplined person. I actually did vote for the Conservatives as I knew I would but the Conservatives need to re-find their progressive conservative roots and not get lost in social conservatism (it is a losing side of conservatism and needs to be put aside in favour of good management of the government particularly finances and support of the military). Following the words of Jesus in my case and other religions have other beliefs is the important part of our moving forward in time in a productive way that brings humanity forward and gives us peace.
I am thinking about the Blake Newsletter and not a lot to write but will note that there are not as many Blake tested in the Living DNA as I anticipated (my 2x great grandparents John Blake and Ann Farmer had 54 grandchildren and hundreds of great grandchildren and a great many remained in England (but perhaps not but I am not seeing them particularly in the United States or in other parts of the Commonwealth)). However, the losses in the Blake family during both World Wars was large - they did live in London and Hampshire (both areas bombed heavily during the war). On the other hand the number of Pincombe descendants in England is very large but George Pincombe's children did stay in the London/Surrey area, Philip's children also stayed in the United Kingdom and Richard does not appear to have had children. That covers the three sets of descendants of the children of Robert Pincombe and Elizabeth Rowcliffe who remained in England. Robert (third son of William Pincombe and Mary Charly) had five siblings and Thomas (4th son) remained in England and the preponderance of Pincombe testers does probably indicate some of his descendants (Thomas Pincombe married Philippia Williams 8 Aug 1803 at Winsford Somerset and they baptized 12 children of whom all but one appeared to have survived to adulthood). My Pincombe family here tended to correspond with the Rew side of the family (John Pincombe married Elizabeth Rew (my 2x great grandparents)) for the most part although they did go back to Devon at least once to bring Devon Reds to Canada. In general (except for my matches) my siblings had twice as many Pincombe matches as any other (mine were about equal for the four lines (Blake, Rawlings, Pincombe, Buller)) which did surprise me. I haven't made any attempt to link them back to their ancestral line and will not. The book will only come up to the census for the most part (likely the 1851 since it had more information). So it has been interesting doing the matches finally with the Living DNA results. Excellent setup for doing the work that I am doing extracting the matches for five siblings. I just never took it on before because I knew I had endogamy in three lines overall with the time period for the close cousin marriages being two hundred years ago now but you can see the effect into this generation where there appears to be very long lengths of Knight passed but they actually represent (bits of Knight, Butt, Arnold and Ellis). In the case of the Routledge this cousin marriage goes back to the 3x great grandparents so looking at the marriage of Thomas Routledge and Elizabeth Routledge 1785 in Bewcastle Cumberland. The Routledge family appears to have been in this area back into the 1400s having quickly departed the Highlands of Scotland about this time period (long story and have written about it before). My Routledge were of the Oakshaw family and there was a tendency in this family to marry cousins (to keep the properties intact generation after generation). The Blake endogamy goes back into the 1500s and 1600s so is less apparent but the matches for Blake in the United States are likely part of that endogamy as one doesn't generally see a match that is likely 8th generation difference (these matches tend to look like early colonial on their part in the Ancestry database) but the passage of particular chunks of chromosome does appear to indicate this Blake endogamy (looking at 23 and Me (where the results are (were!) visible) for Americans and especially when they had a tree to accompany their results)).
So another busy day in genealogy land where I appear to have decamped for the remainder of my time and will choose to remain there as I attempt to accomplish what my Blake grandfather wanted and what my mother wanted for her Pincombe family. It is a slow process but a rather fascinating one actually. Time is a gift and one must use it wisely to carry on the thoughts of a family into the future (my parents had seven children, nine grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren thus far and none of them carry the Blake or the Pincombe surname). This material would be lost and I know it meant a lot to my mother for the Pincombe material not to be lost that she had in her possession and the same for my grandfather as he felt the loss of England for us most deeply and I realize now that as that young child he kept telling me all that information in different ways every day that I spent with him (days that I treasured all of my life as I loved him very dearly as a child) so that at some point in my life it would come to the forefront (as it has). It is wonderful to put to paper some of these memories that he had.
Breakfast is next, honey lemon tea drank and the solitaire puzzles completed.
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