Yesterday more matches and interesting results on occasion as I reach into data now that is less and less data rich for the study but nonetheless mostly because of endogamy continues to delight my thoughts as various lengths of chromosome come to the surface and are examined against the existing grandparent phasing chart. The Living DNA results do give me the opportunity to look at my 100% British Ancestry within England as opposed to looking at it within databases that encompass primarily the population of the United States which is partially descendant of colonial English Ancestry in the 1600s but also a great amount of European/African primarily into the 1700s and beyond and recently Asian Ancestry. The 1600s English colonial ancestry in the United States only really exists for my Blake line - I seldom find a really colonial family with any of the others although Buller is also known to be there and I do find the rare Buller match but I do not believe I have any endogamy in the Buller line (two distinct areas came together in the 1830s the one from London/Surrey and the other from Warwickshire/Staffordshire/Leicestershire and centering in Birmingham in the 1830s on. There is a third area for this line which brings in the Ayrshire/Argyllshire area of Scotland and Northern Ireland but I also appear to have Republic of Ireland from the charting which I could only really believe was also from this third area in Buller.
Nearly 200 new matches to work into my database although some of them are solely extracted for their pinpointing of endogamy and hence somewhat smaller but none the less interesting for my intended work on the great grandparent's phasing work. This breaking down of chromosome into eight lines will be intriguing for sure and I look forward to that challenge sometime later in this year perhaps. That takes me back to the spread of years from 1837 to 1859 which is within British census time and will mark the end of any genealogical charts that I produce for the books. From that point forward one can use the material to then work to the present quite readily using census and family records.
Is there a slow march to peace starting to galvanize in the world? Peace, it does appear, can only happen when we are forever ready and able to do war. The NATO meeting seemed to be sounding the first drum beats to denote that. Peace in our time was the galvanizing expression just before World War II but already the drums of war were beating and we went into the worst war that was ever fought in this world. But one can feel the desire for peace by so much of the world. Enticing people to be part of a larger country will continue long into this century I am sure and will be successful in some cases when honey is used instead of mortar. Satan and all its evil must be gone from our world so that we can face the really tough issues that lie ahead as we move away from global destroying economies to regeneration of the world in a way that the grandchildren and great grandchildren of our children can swim in the lakes and the oceans and enjoy fresh air. Greed and Hate must disappear from our world. As I approach 80 and look back on the times as described by my grandparents - the world has changed so very very much.
So today continuing with the match extraction as I am now working on the 4 segments section of the 7th page and most will just be looking for names that have been collected earlier and extracting that information into those already established pages. I simply add in a section for Living DNA results. This tends to be my endogamy search for the most part. Then on to page 8 and check once again for the 1, 2, and 3 segments which tend to be of value for original work and then looking at 4 and 5 for any repeats of earlier files. The fifth sibling will be next. I also need to think about the Blake Newsletter as it is due 1st of July. The months move very quickly actually and we are well into summer now.
Tea drank, solitaire puzzles completed and I need to do a bit more weeding and put that bag out to the front. The birds are back looking for their berries - currant, raspberry, gooseberry and we will have to be quick to get some as well. The elderberry will be a little later. Put the feeder out in the front tree once again and the chipmunks are very grateful as they have been fed here by my husband for probably twenty years since he retired and discovered them in the backyard although they live elsewhere they came here to eat! The squirrels too are eating away as well as the birds. The cardinals who have come for years and years checked out the fruit bushes the other day.
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