The plan was to get through more matches and I am now at 60 left to sort into my databases. Most of them were pretty straight forward and another interesting one on Chromosome 9 where there is somewhat of a conflict although this latest match does give me thought to pause and look again at the small group of matches that were conflicting. I think perhaps I have let my thoughts on geographic positioning take a bit of a hold which I can not really do with British Isles matches. The chances of names belonging anywhere in particular is confounded by the simple fact that there is a greater chance of individuals marrying someone that I am related to in the British Isles than here with its abundance of many other countries feeding into the population. That being said I am being more cautious at how I look at the matches.
I also worked on the picture albums as I have been looking for this small set of pictures of Edward that I scanned for him a couple of years before he passed away. I was thinking they would just be in a little pile but in actuality I checked the graph we made of the boxes in the storage area and discovered there were actually two boxes labelled family photos. Inside that box was a family album I do not really remember ever seeing (yet another binder of pictures) and there they were. I suspect by the look of the binder that it belonged to his mother and that makes sense that those early pictures would have been in that binder. I could almost sense him saying you really shouldn't take my mother's binder apart but gradually for the sake of preservation I did do that and will actually send a good portion of this binder to his nieces as most of the pictures are of those two children. They belong to them really as time passes this growing family will want to have their history in their own hands.
So now those pictures have a new home in the first binder of the set of Family Albums that will reside with our children. I think he would be happy to know that a little line coming down from him will look at his pictures on into the future and say that is Grandpa Edward because that always bothered him that his father appeared to be forgotten.
The day moved fast and I did my weightlifting after several hours of working on the matches and then in the afternoon I did my yoga and running after working on the Family Albums. I watched the television for a bit and discovered that another shooting had occurred in the United States of a well known Conservative Charlie Kirk. How sad that his children will not know their father in life any longer; how sad for America that another shooting has occurred. Prayers for his soul. Remembering that today is 24 years since 9/11 and the sadness of that day. For me up here in Canada working at the hospital we listened and watched all day as we had gone on disaster footing in case anyone needed to be airlifted to here. But it was quiet all day as we waited for news on the downing of the Twin Towers, the attack on the Pentagon and the crash of the hijacked airplane in a Pennsylvania field. So sad for our American cousins and neighbours. Then as the day passed our airports filled with planes headed to the United States but landing here in Canada. Not in Ottawa as the Americans asked us not to do that since their Embassy is here; quite understandable. It was a long day; it was a long week for those Americans as they waited for the border to open to let them come home.
The decision has been made that no new pipeline starts will occur for this first approach at the new energy grid across Canada. The private sector has not yet expressed an interest in doing so and the Federal government will not build another pipeline. It is not the same priority as other items. Not disappointed as I rather expected that since there was no news forthcoming on a company taking up this project in the private sector. It would not likely be popular for an American company as they prefer the oil flow directly to the United States and not to a tidewater port since there is a huge benefit in that we sell the oil to them at a discount. That is why we built the Trans Mountain pipeline ourselves when we purchased that particular item. We wanted to get a pipeline to tidewater in that case it was through British Columbia. But this new proposal involves a port on the Atlantic side of Canada so a good amount of land to pass over (unless one chooses Port Churchill in which case the length is considerably shorter). There are advantages and disadvantages since Hudson Bay is icebound in the winter months in Canada and that can be a long period. However I also see an advantage as it is a protected port with a similarly protected passage to the Atlantic and a much smaller crossing to the east with the current to Europe with lots of ports of call along the way. Time will tell on that and there does need to be consultation which is probably ongoing as time passes.
Today more matches and more work on the Family Albums which will be more or less the direction of my work until the matches are done. Then I will check the other companies once again for any new matches (at Ancestry there are twenty new ones already which I did do in a quiet moment of just wanting to do something else). 23 and Me does not let me look at the matches in terms of chromosomes which I will check to see if that has changed. FT DNA and My Heritage I have not looked at for a while. Once I have done that then I move towards rephasing the grandparents DNA as I am working concurrently on the cross over points using the data from Living DNA. There were some subtle changes but nothing earth shattering but good clarification on a couple of queries in my mind. I am working on the third chromosome at this time - chromosome 7. Then of course the generational charts for the two books - Pincombe and Blake. But these two projects have a number of Latin documents that I will be transcribing this fall. There is a course on Mango languages on the Gallic Wars which I shall start doing shortly. That will also help my Latin.
Time to go and make my tea and then do my solitaire puzzles. I always have this sad twinge when I finish the daily solitaire puzzles as they seem to go so quickly and I enjoy them so very much.
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