I continue to look forward to moving and downsizing has to continue to be on my mind as I simply have too much of Edward's material not yet placed. All of this material meant a great deal to him and so I will strive to place it and perhaps this summer will see me organize all the Allen material and all the Kipp (old) material and get it placed. My daughter will help me with it but she is also busy with her research. Her retirement days though are coming and although she has thoughts post-retirement slowly developing they will I know involve moving perhaps even before she does retire. One of the people who did some replacement work and repair was telling me that there is a consortium which wants to purchase sets of carriage homes along the road behind us to build condominium apartment buildings (low-rise) I think he said. An interesting idea and I certainly do not have a problem with that. It would house many many young people and the train is so handy to go to work wherever in the city. But if someone with a family comes along when I am ready to sell I will sell it to whomever. We have lived here since the 26th April 1978 (and to date the family that has lived the longest on this rather long street!) when everything from here to the river (including no houses across the road) was just farmland (unused). Orleans Blvd as it is now just a dream on a map although some parts already existing.
I remember when the girls were young and Edward took them and went househunting when the houses were first built up on Chapel Hill but the yards were too small and the bedrooms also rather small as these rooms are generous in these carriage homes on the second floor. The living/dining room is small but the kitchen also not a bad size. But he decided not to move as gardening was something he loved to do. Myself at nearly 80 find the gardening a lot and mostly just weed putting a bag out to the front or into the bin at the back. I definitely prefer winter! But my not cutting down everything in the fall is showing this year as the hostas are huge and healthy looking. I lost quite a bit of flower at the fence when they were replaced on the one side but the hostas survived along with the gooseberry bush.
But Edward's material continues to be important to me but I do not know anything about the Kipp family so can not carry on with that work except for the yDNA study which I took care of for him. He was very much into autosomal DNA and proving his lifetime work was a fascinating pastime those last years when autosomal DNA testing became the way to go. Not long after his pacemaker was inserted he asked about a dozen of his cousins to test and their results along with his own (and my daughter and I surprised him by having her tested to give him a close match since none of his close family other than his nieces survive) and that pretty much occupied him the rest of his life. The colonial matches with his cousins in New England/New York/Pennsylvania/New Jersey were a delight to him as they poured out of the various databases.
It meant a lot to my brother next older in age to me to test and I said to him since he didn't have any children of his own this was his gift to the family which he very much loved to have me say. I tested him anywhere that I tested myself since we were the least alike it gave along with the three others a very robust look at our DNA. DNA is the fascinating tool of genetic genealogy in particular autosomal although I have found both the yDNA and mtDNA fascinating.
Continued with the Living DNA pulling of matches and I am on page 8 now working on the 1 segment entries and will progress as on the others to 2 and 3 (I do not actually see any 4 or 5 on this page which is nice as this work is long and for the most part other than assigning perhaps 50% of the entries I do not learn anything new with the 4 or 5 segment matches. Just the last sibling to do and then I can complete the crossover points and create the new phasing for my grandparents based on the Living DNA results and most importantly my known file of cousins.
The Blake Newsletter is growing in my mind and I will also get to that. Tea being enjoyed and solitaire games are next.
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