Tuesday, June 24, 2025

First day of cleaning accomplished

 Yesterday I completed the basement and main floor cleaning and will do the top floor today - I am somewhat speedier because my daughter is here doing her summer research so helps me with some of the cleaning. 

As well I worked on the matches and I now have  182 new files to put into my database. I am almost 3/4ths through the third page of 50 matches for the fourth sibling so moving along very nicely. More on that today as I clean. I also want to work on preparing the crossover points for a re-phasing of my grandparents based solely on these results and compare it to the earlier rendition using 23 and Me as well as GedMatch for the phasing. Collecting these new results I did find a couple of discrepancies where I had a good idea of how particular matches worked into my database although would actually need to do the research to prove that (or ask them!). Usually I do not write people that I match for the most part as my intent was not so much to gather cousins but rather to work my way backwards and that is pretty much on me to do as my families have not had a great deal of research done on them in particular other than the Pincombe and the errors in the earlier Blake line. 

Another warm day and already at 6:00 a.m. 26 degrees celsius and will be the hottest day I think of this heat spell. The house is still at less than the 24.5 degrees celsius  needed to turn the cooling on although it has been dehumidifying quite steadily the last few days which also cools the house. I keep it all closed up at the back during the morning and early afternoon and then close the front from the mid afternoon on with the back opening up somewhat so I do not have to turn the lights on. I keep my monitor turned off unless I am working. The air purifiers have been running on full (three of them) since early May and so far that has worked very well. I think though all the trees around us do help to keep the house cooler as well. But the summers are definitely getting warmer and warmer. 

Drinking my lovely hot lemon ginger tea and solitaire puzzles to do.  

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