Working on the matches

The matches that I am putting into a file are few now that I am into pages 5 to 8 of this siblings matches. I have 194 new matches thus far but some of them were selected solely for their demonstration of endogamy in the Knight family rather than as good matches for my database. As I reach towards the last sibling there will be some accountability for the matches designated suspicious as I work my way through them - I needed all the results to really make a decision on them. Given my 100% English heritage looking at my (our) matches in a database which has a large percentage of UK testers is a different picture from looking at my matches in the United States located databases where the largest number of testers tends to be American. There my matches unless they are one of my 2nd/3rd/4th cousins tend to be small and the testers are early Colonial American families. In the past I have not paid a great deal of attention to these testers but they will actually prove the distant endogamy in the Blake family as particular lengths are handed down in the Blake line of Andover on particular chromosomes enabling this thought. But it was an interesting morning of working on the matches that saw me complete page 5 and most of page 6 leaving just 7 and 8 likely although I will glance at page 9. Then I can work on the fifth sibling's matches and this will clarify some of these suspicious results that I found in matches that show higher amounts of shared chromosomes but not a logical pattern that lets me place them readily into a grandparent line until I can look at all the results. I could have looked at them all along but I wanted to work through each siblings matches from beginning to end only using the knowledge of those already completed as it will give me a picture more easily gleaned overall from each set of matches. The advantage of having already phased my grandparents based on the other companies (namely GedMatch and 23 and Me but using the FT DNA results (I did most of this work before My Heritage became as large as it now is) was a picture of how each sibling inherited percentagewise from each grandparent so that I was able to focus on their likely percentage when I looked at each new match. It has worked pretty much but perhaps as much as 2% to 3% of the matches in this new acquisition show some discrepancy (not unexpected to be honest) which can now be addressed with this newer rendition of the phasing based on all of these databases. One of the main reasons of course is the actual testing regimen of each company is or can be different slightly in what they select to use as their testing points. 

Off to kayaking and walking later in the day and was most interesting. When we arrived back at our car there was a car parked behind us (and two beside us and no way out in front!) with a small group of people just lounging about with their car. So I flashed the lights of the car to unlock it to let them know we wanted to leave but they didn't leave strange really. Then suddenly they did! I think they thought we hadn't paid for our parking but we have a parking pass and do not have to go to the machine and pay each time. The parking pass is great. A few minutes later I suppose the meter person came by to check on the parking they generally ignore our car as they know we have a parking pass hanging  in the front window; that did send them running and we were off and on our way. One would think that young people had better things to do with their time really; the parking attendants are very efficient at Petrie! We had done some shopping earlier as well before going off to the park. The parking attendants at Petrie have a huge amount of ground to cover and do a great job for sure of ensuring that people do pay which helps to maintain the park for everybody. It is a very large beach area and was pretty packed last night although there were a lot of parking spaces in the boat launching area so no excuse for parking behind us; we just happened to be in a crowded spot!

Off for groceries sometime today and I do hope that the cashier doesn't pack our bags so full when we provide so many. It only takes a second to grab another bag from the bag of bags. When you see them grimace picking up the bags it seems strange that they do not get the hint on that for sure. I have told them many times but with my daughter here for a bit she can pick them up easily and put them into the cart. The cloth bags are flimsy and tear easily so not overfilling them would be appreciated for sure. 

Cloudy today but the heat spell is gone for a few days and rain is coming. The NATO commitment to 5% is welcomed for sure. We always need to be prepared to protect our countries and it is good to see that happening. NATO is not an aggressive group - they have proven that time and time again over the past years since their creation. We want to have a peaceful world not one where the extreme wealthy of countries, where they basically hold the people who live there in servitude much like the days of serfdom, create wars of aggression trying to steal even more money and land (Ukraine is definitely an example of that as the Russians slowly take more and more and kill more and more Ukrainians). We want to have a world free of hate and Iran is the great hater in this case creating legions of soldiers - Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis - to try to destroy Israel. What logic there is to that I fail to see but then this same country Iran shot down an airplane headed for Canada from Tehran full of children, women and men (no combatants) over Tehran itself all because they hated these most Iranian (or Iranian descendant) people on the airplane for not supporting their satanic hatred of the West. We all need to get rid of hate and greed for sure. Then we can have that peaceful uplifted plain on which to live on this earth where our greatest struggle will continue to be degradation of the environment due to excesses which have created Global Change which is astronomical in the polar regions of the world but will also impact the rest of the world. 

The day beckons, tea is drank and time to do the solitaire puzzles.