I continued yesterday extracting matches from the Living DNA account of my brother least like me and it was quite successful. He would be pleased actually and is I am sure. Doug found the entire business of DNA quite fascinating especially the yDNA of the Blake line to which we belong. Having it recorded somewhere was the aim of the entire process and as long as the databases exist he is recorded in pretty much all of them as I bought tests for everyone of them for him. He was always trying to pay for them but I said it is for a book I will write and he decided that it was a venture for me and agreed to my paying for them. He was a lovely person my brother and I miss him of course but life became very challenging for him. Doug survived a heart attack in his late 30s but lived to be 77 years of age and approaching his 78th birthday. He had his own accounting business (I think in retrospect that he followed our father's designated profession that his parent's preferred but my father decided to be a Master Electrician and have his own company) although eventually had to retire from that due to ill health. He was very active in the Boy Scouts of Canada all of his life from boyhood following once again in my father's footsteps (my father had been Chief Scout of London, Ontario in the 1930s at some point (that knowledge I never really knew until later and I would need to look up the date). During the floods there in the 30s he and my mother were very active in the Scouting/Guiding movement helping to rescue people.
I do rather like the way that Living DNA has recorded all of the matches details in their charting which you can override using the checkbox to eliminate anything under 7cM. I think it is good to look at all the data although smaller items can often just be the effect of ethnicity with particular pieces of DNA being inherited by most members of different ethnic groups. The ease of capturing all the match material and putting it into the database (I can just eliminate the ones that I actually use but I retain the material so that I can see it every time I look at the account without increasing the length of my recorded information.
I will continue with the extraction today although I really must write the Kipp (I keep reminding myself but when I went in and checked I announced in February that there would just be one single issue per year on the 1st of February) and Pincombe newsletters. The Pincombe Newsletter will be short actually as the the Pincombe Will just an update on the book and where I am heading.
This is basement cleaning day and I will begin presently. We have smoke once again although when the rain arrives that will take it out of the air (the best scrubbers in the world are rain).
Breakfast complete and need to do the solitaire puzzles; this day is a little bit of a switch around.
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