Yesterday I went through the first 100 matches for my Living DNA data and placed any not yet placed into their appropriate grandparent line(s) for the moment or into a insufficient matchbox label. I will continue that process today. I had to work my data in two different ways to determine the best way to look at the other four sets of sibling data. I have considered simply not regarding data less than 7 cM but a glance at the data and my current phasing chart has proven to be most interesting so I continue looking at everything. I have a large number of new data points for my Buller lines where I had scant data before as there are a lot of testers that I have never seen before. Interesting that so many are Buller actually (Buller 34, Pincombe 23, Rawlings 19, and Blake 16 in a sample set of 100 plus with 21 placed in insufficient size - I move on the the next 50 today from a simple linear review but some already covered by my earlier method) and the chromosomes lengths that are matching are known to be Buller but I simply had less data points before on some of the chromosomes. There is greater variety in the British Isles of my lines perhaps not surprising as most of my known relatives beyond 3rd cousin still live in the British Isles with a few in the United States that are 4th to 5th cousin or larger for the occasional one). My first ancestor to set foot on this continent was George Lywood in 1806 with the 23rd Regiment of Foot at Halifax and the next was my Routledge family in southwestern Ontario in the latter part of 1818 so I am definitely a newbie to this continent.
Worked in the garden for about an hour or so and have freed up more plants from the weeds. I have lost a few more plants this year but eventually the hardy ones will survive and the less so will simply die off. It is too much for me to maintain as it was. I used to spend about six hours a day out there when Edward took ill keeping it as he had had it but my interest in gardening is pretty low and anyone coming in is going to look at this yard and say swimming pool and activities and the yard will change so my keeping it up for other than myself is a waste of my time. The rhubarb also got to see its way but actually it was fighting back and growing above the weed level but the weeds suck out the goodness of the soil so now they are free to thicken up or whatever. I like a little but not a lot so works for me. The raspberry canes that I planted around the yard are doing well here and there and will let them stay where I placed them. They occupy about 1/3rd of the main garden these days. The sunflower seeds are now all planted and will fill the large upper part of the main garden. Thank goodness. The other part of the garden we will plant all the left over seed and let the mammals enjoy the product of that. Gradually the yard is coming together. Still a small amount of grass to cut and perhaps this week will see that task completed. The mammals are enjoying the large clover and other wild plants.
The Prime Minister/Premiers Conference seemed to have gone very well with everyone happy except for the Premier of British Columbia who does not want large oil tankers around the north British Columbia coast. Progress forward is perhaps more important at the moment and we can be on guard for inadequate tankers perhaps would be a better solution than banning. We need to get our export business in products that are wanted going in the best environmental way possible but making it possible is very important. I did not hear any complaints from Quebec on an Eastern Pipeline but I may have missed something there but we will see how that goes. The simplest project is a direct pipeline from Alberta to the Atlantic and takes advantage of the ability to export all of the year but thoughts on the use of Hudson Bay also useful but less available year round.
I think that we who have arrived in the last 400 plus years should not think that North America was under populated and available for population but rather appreciate that the First Nations welcomed us here. History reports (primarily old Spanish documents) that the population at first contact was very large but dwindled as their visits continued - smallpox and other European diseases certainly took their toll on the unexposed First Nations back in the 1500s for sure and mis-understating the amount of transaction from an economic viewpoint and total number of people on this continent is perhaps naive on the part of those of us who have arrived in the last 400 plus years I am left to think. We can learn a lot from the First Nations who have lived on this continent for thousands of years compared to our mere four hundred plus years. The causes of climate change (although known to be affected by human habitation in this century and the past one in particular) are very complex and their knowledge of such items and many others is very valuable to the over all picture of life on this continent and making it work for all of us.
An eye opener for me, on just how small the world could be, occurred when we visited Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland and saw the carvings of ancient corn stalks in a chapel constructed in the 1440s quite a while before the British/European explorations of the Americas where corn was a crop but unknown to the British/Europeans. Mind you the Norse did have explorations into the northern part of the continent (Newfoundland in particular at L'Anse aux Meadows) earlier and their expeditions to the British Isles are well known prior to the 1440s so that could be a source of the knowledge.
Today continuing with the matches at Living DNA. Tea drank and solitaire puzzles to do.
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